Prison Break - Heart Breaker

[Disclaimer: Nothing that will take off the thrill of watching this serial, for the first time, will be revealed, unlike, in some Tamil channels when they do cinema reviews: they will reveal the entire story (please do not come to fight me, for saying that tamil movies have stories in them... as some of them really do, no matter if the story is of 3 to 4 lines), like, for example, '"The hero is a beggar and the heroine is the daughter of very-rich-man\MLA\MP\rowdy-who-controls-the-entire-nation etc. Like no other movie in the history, they fall in love and that too the heroine will chase him and love him even though he will refuse for many times. The father of the heroine will oppose that and in the climax, whether they join or not is the story", they will tell the reviews like this, as though no one will know what the bull-shit climax would be.]

Prison Break is a world famous serial, which has 9.1 out of 10 rating in IMDB. The theme is simple. Micheal Scofield, a structural engineer, voluntarily goes to a prison, to break out of the prison with his innocent brother, who was set up with a murder of vice-president's brother. The prison he goes into is a well structured, well protected building and breaking out of it almost impossible.

At first, the main idea is to break out of th prison and get lost from those who set his brother up. But soon, the real problem comes when he finds out that, the people who involved in that set up are highly professional in doing these kind of business and killing people is as tough as calculation 1+1 for them. Micheal finds some friends as well as enemies in the prison. How he manages to break out of the prison and how he handles the problems which he will face after that is the serial.

There is nothing much I can say here without affecting the thrill, so let me tell you other things. This serial has 3 seasons with season one having 22 episodes and season 2 having 22 episodes and season 3 having 13 episodes, totally 55 (wow... what an arithmetic) each one with approximately 43 minutes. Once you start watching this, you wont be able to stop it unless some other important factor affects you.

I have seen my friends (including me) watching this for full nights, till 3:30 AM or 4:30 AM or 5:30 AM as we were not able to stop watching it. It is highly recommended for anyone having any interest in movies. By the way, it wont look like a serial, you can imagine this to be a movie which runs for about 40 hours. I have already spoiled some 4 friends (making them to stay awake throughout nights) with this serial. So, if you get any chance for seeing this (or you can get from me if you know me personally [as though anyone who don't know me will ever read my blogs ;)])

Enchanted - You will sure be!

Sometimes, you will like a movie for no reasons and sometimes you will hate a movie for no reasons. This movie had fallen in the first category for me. Enchanted... I felt enchanted after seeing this movie. It is a typical fairy tale movie with no new creative ideas. No twists and turns. No breath taking scenes. Nothing. But the movie, in my opinion is 'Damn Good'.

Princess Giselle (Amy Adams) is sent from the fairy tale world to the real world by an evil witch to prevent her from marrying her stepson. How the princess react to the real world is the story, or we can say the movie. Giselle, in her fairy tale world Andalasia wants to have a true love's kiss. She meets a prince, Prince Edward (James Marsden) and falls in love. But the prince's stepmother tricks Giselle and send her to a world the next day, where there is no true love or no 'Happily Ever After', and that is our world.

In the world, she is being rescued by a lawyer Robert Philip and the clash between her world and real world starts. Slowly Giselle's view about falling in love at the first sight changes and slowly she starts to love Robert. When they are almost in sync, prince Edward comes and meets Giselle and Giselle parts from Robert leaving her heart there.

Since Edward and Giselle meet each other, the stepmother, the witch also comes to the real world to kill Giselle and tricks her to eat a poisoned apple. The only cure for the poison, as you could easily guess, is a true love's kiss! As you could easily guess, Edward first tries to save her, but she is not cured and Robert tries to save her and she comes back to life. Then there is a small graphics feast (not so much good), and the evil stepmother dies and Robert and Giselle lives Happily Ever After in our world.

You may think, 'then, what the hell is about Price Edward?'. Similarly, Robert was almost loving another girl called Nancy and Nancy and Edward goes to Andalasia and marry each other and they also live Happily Ever After. How is it? Nothing about movie is unique. But somehow, the whole movie radiates happiness and merry feeling. The movie is nominated for Oscar award for three of the songs in the movie. The music is excellent and will urge you to dance and the storyline will keep you laughing and happy. A feel energitic movie for all ages.

Click here to watch the trailer and here see my favourite dialogues.

Liar Liar - One of the most hilarious movies!

Liar Liar is one of the most hilarious movies I had ever seen. It is more hilarious than *Bruce Almighty*. Of course I must admit that most of the comedy are related to adultery and not recommended for kids. So, if you are not a kid and want to have some real stomach-paining laughs, this is the movie you must seek.

Yes, the story is very simple. Fletcher (Jim Carrey) is a lawyer and because of his son's prayers, he is not permitted to tell lies for only one day. Yes, it is also one of the *what if?* movies and because of that real fun comes. This is one of the crudest curse anyone could get: Not allowed to tell lies. Suppose, your colleague asks you to review his\her code and the code seems like a bull shit to you. And, if you have to say to them with smile in your face, *this is the most bull shit code I have ever seen...* What will be your situation if this happens, is this whole movie.

Fletcher is one of the best liars in the world almost 100% lying always and he gets this curse. So, in each and every situation he tells the truth and gets in to *embarrassing* situation. Yes... if you like this kind of comedy, embarrassing a subject as in MTP, this one is for you. There is not a story line which we can discuss. The movie is full of comedy. So, if you get a chance, do not miss it.

Some of the comedies: "Why don't you lend me some money?" "Because I am a cheap", "I object this question your honor!!!" "You are objecting to your own question?", etc. You can also click here to see one of my favorite dialogues. Click here to watch the trailer. If you had already watched this movie, you can share your comments here.

[P.S.: In the above example I told about code review, our code may look like a cow dung to others who review it, but that does not matter isn't it :)]

You've Got Mail - My most favourite movie of all time.

*You've Got Mail* is a movie about sentiments and emotions. The story is very simple: A man and a woman who are rivals in business and are enemy are actually lovers over the internet without knowing the real identity and how they get together is the movie. This is the second movie in which Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan-Nora Ephron joins to give a romantic comedy movie. It is Nora Ephron's style to take a very simple story and make the movie a good one with the help of screenplay and brilliant acting.

Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) and Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) are friends over the internet by the name NY152 and ShopGirl respectively and they almost fall in love with each other due to their natural charm. But Joe Fox puts Kathleen Kelly out of her book business with his multi story book shop with stunning discounts, without knowing that she is his friend ShopGirl. Kathleen asks business advices to Joe over the internet without saying any specifics.

But whatever she does, she is not able to recover and she tends to close the shop. She wants to meet NY152 to get consoled and NY152 eagerly agrees to meet his ShopGirl. When he goes to the spot he comes to know that ShopGirl in Kathleen. He understands that if he reveals his identity then itself, she will surely ditch him to have put her out of business, and he could never get any chance to make her love him. So, he does not reveal his identity to her then and leaves the spot.

So then onwards Joe meets Kathleen as Joe itself and try to get a place in her heart. How he does that? How he makes her to forgive him? How he develops friendship with her as Joe also. How he makes her to love him, as Joe, instead of NY152? And how Kathleen reacts when she comes to know that Joe is NY152? Is the rest of the movie.

The music in the movie is excellent and it has about ten background songs, all being excellent. The climax song in which Kathleen comes to know about Joe, is a masterpiece. I could not help, I always get goose flesh in the climax because of the song and Meg Ryan's acting. By always, I mean all the 35+ times I have seen this movie. This is a movie which worth watching many times. Click here to watch a small trailer and here to see the last dialogue of the movie.

Cellular - Non Stop Thrill!

Cellular is a movie, which starts at one point does not stop until the movie ends. The whole movie is about a guy's 5-6 hours of life. How much a missed call can mess your life, is the story. The story turns out to be simple: A guy, Ryan (Chris Evans) , gets an anonymous call and the caller, Jessica (Kim Basinger) says that she was kidnapped and that she will die if he does not give his cell phone to the police.

The interesting part is that, the phone from which she makes the call is shattered and there is no guarantee that she will get a valid line one more time. Not believing her for some time Ryan makes sarcastic remarks on her but soon comes to know of the real danger. Not knowing what he is going to face he willingly starts to help her.

The situations turn out to make him a robber and a criminal. How he fights to make way for his pursue of saving an unknown family becomes the rest of the story. Despite the simple story, the screenplay is extremely well manipulated (of course there are some logical mistakes which we should not care. For example, Ryan steals a security guard's car but does not face any problem or chase from the cops) that it will keep us in the verge of our seats.

I particularly like this kind of movie that has so rapid storyline development. This is a movie which is worth watching at least once. Click here to watch the trailer and here to see one of my favorite dialogues in this movie. Watch the movie and let me know your comments.

Bruce Almighty - When A Man Became God

Bruce Almighty is one of my favorite movies, not only because of the comedy flavor in the movie but also because of the sentiments it has in it. The story is simple, a man, Bruce ( Jim Carrey), who has never got any luck and has never got what he deserves, keeps complaining about the God that He is not doing his job well. So, the God (Morgan Freeman ) decides to give him all his powers and let him do His job! How Bruce does this and what becomes of him is the story.

Bruce, who has been complaining about God, does not do anything for the people. He uses the power to enrich his life by getting the job he thinks he deserves by forcing his competitor to be sacked, enjoying the love life with his girl friend, taking revenge of those who had once hit him, etc. But he forgets one thing, all this time, he has been very selfish and he never thinks about what his lover, Grace ( Jennifer Aniston) really wants. He just neglects her wishes and feelings, thinking only about him.

Eventually, he loses Grace. Sudden feeling of emptiness occupies him. He realizes his mistakes, but it is too late. Finally, he uses his power to get to know what she prays and is shocked to see that all her prayers are for his good. He has never cared about her, never took any steps to know what she really wants. He realizes how selfish he had been. Not able to repent to the fullest for his mistakes, he wants to give up his responsibility. And yet in the climax, with so much of emotions, he joins his lover as a real lover and the movie ends with a happy ending.

This is another *what if* movie by Jim Carrey, another one being *Liar Liar*. But this movie has more sentiments and emotions. The second half of the movie is devoted to sentiments where as the first part is full of comedy. I could not help myself from getting goose bumps every time I see this movie, when Bruce sees Grace's prayers. Click here to watch the trailer and click here to see my favorite dialog of this movie. A movie which is definitely worth watching. Watch this movie and share your comments.

The Bicycle Thief - will steal anyone's heart!

The story of *The Bicycle Thief* is very very simple. How far a man will go in a desperate situation and how far the poverty and unemployment will change any honest man. This story takes place in Italy after World War II, when Italy is struck with poverty and unemployment. Antonio, a poor man who hardly had any luck in his life has got an appointment for a job and for the job, he has to have a bicycle. Without bicycle, he will not get the job. Having no cycle with him, he sells all his left-out things in his house to buy a second-hand bicycle.

He goes to his job for the first day. The tragedy strikes him with a brutal blow; his bicycle is stolen on the first day. He has nothing left with him. So, he and his son go out in search of their bicycle. Searching every single bicycle they see. Wandering like a cloud which does not know where it should go. This is the most of the movie. As the time flies by, the desperation increases. He has to get the cycle before the end of the day. At one point of time, Antonio loses the hope and he asks his accompanying son to go to the house, so that he could steal a cycle that is standing outside a house.


His son not able to get on the running bus is left behind him where he sees his father stealing a cycle and is being chased by a lot of people. He witnesses his father being caught and being hit and scolded. The owner of the cycle sees this, Antonio's son crying there, decides to leave Antonio saying *This man has got enough of his problems*. Antonio and his son leaves this spot: Antonio bearing tons of embarrassment and pain in heart; his son with tons of fear and worry in his face. Antonio breaks into tears. His son giving his hand to his father and leans on him to console him. As the father and son leave the spot, hand-in-hand, the film ends.

Though I like to feel all kind of emotions through films, this one let me feel the poverty, unemployment, desperation, worry, tragedy and most of all the embarrassment in front of the child. In the climax where Antonio breaks into tears is still in my eyes. This is a 1948 movie, which is considered to be one of the best movies ever, is definitely worth watching at least once; a sentimental, touching movie. Watch this movie and share your comments.