Casino Royale – Review

Movies these days don’t want to let you get settled into the Cinema hall before they start on you, apparently. Casino royale starts with a brilliant action sequence – a snake fighting orgy that quickly goes onto be a cat n mouse chase, with Bond ending up more than ruffling diplomatic feathers(no, not of birds).

If the makers wanted to take the focus away from the way the new Bond looks to the movie itself, then they succeed very well.

This follows with Bond breaking in, to M’s office! And getting it good for being “reckless, and letting his ego rule”. For a movie that supposedly sets the tone for the rest of the Bond movies, this one’s certainly a very good attempt at it – and succeeds most of the time.

Miami Vice.

“Little vice, even less spice.“

That should be the tag-line for the movie. Colin Farell and Jamie Foxx are the lead stars. and Gong li is the female lead. The story is apparently based on a 1980′s TV series, of the same name. With farell and foxx playing two cops who go undercover.

The plot is very thin, and intended to be racy, which it isnt. Cops get killed. Undercover cops deployed. Cop gets involved with Gangsta’s chick, gets double-crossed. Doesnt get killed in shoot-out.

Ok, typical 1980s Hindi movie, right? Well, almost. Except the chick’s let go.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Watched at: PVR cinemas, Forum, Bangalore

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Jack Sparrow (Johny Depp), Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) & Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) are back with the second part of the trilogy pirate-adventure POTC (Pirates Of The Caribbean).

This time, “Captain” Jack Sparrow is commandeering his beloved black-sailed ship “Black Pearl” (from POTC-1) and has to fight the new villain “Davy Jones” who controls Kraken, a giant octopus like sea-creature. Will Turner, joins the action to release his father Bootstrap Bill from Davy Jones and Elizabeth, though being the lover of Will, has quite a confusing relationship with Jack Sparrow.