Some Reviews

> A redefined wonderful spy movie.

I know Melissa McCarthy since ‘Gilmore Girls’, but never thought she would rise this far, especially to dominate in a movie with the presence of the big names around her, that too in an action film equivalent to top quality. She’s one of my favourite actresses, even I enjoyed thoroughly her under-appreciated ‘Tammy’. So this is where the action stars become comedians and comedians action stars. Indeed, it worked out so well.

It shames comedy-spy flicks like ‘The Pink Panther’, ‘Johnny English’ etc. From the director of ‘The Heat’, helmed another perfect female oriented comedy. Jude Law was a decent as usual, but Jason Statham was unbelievably awesome in his tiny part. I had plenty of good laughs, the loud ones after a long time. I still remember the unicorn joke and I can’t stop laughing. And roof over a bike, gadgets and so on… I find Melissa McCarthy’s line deliverance are so funny and I enjoy her films specially for that reason.

I know they used a stunt double and blue/green screens in the crucial segments for a better result. But still she excelled in all stunt sequences that required physically herself in front of the camera. One of the trivia says, after the end of each day shooting, she looked like fell down an elevator shaft. Her hard work definitely paid off very well.

There are lots of adult oriented comedy, so strictly it is for grownups only and may be matured teens. I’ll be definitely disappointed if they won’t make a sequel for this. If they do, I hope they retain all the cast, especially Statham along the lead actress. And finally I’m looking forward the director-actress’s the third collaboration, ‘Ghostbusters’.

7½/10

Some Reviews

> Not very innovative, as well as not that bad.

Like the previous year, the 2015 was also considered the year of sci-fi in the film world. Plenty of large and small scale flicks came out and among them I was eagerly waiting for this one. If the story is what you always prefer with a fine production quality, then this film won’t disappoint you. The performances were also well supported. Then what was this film’s issue?

The last time widely accepted movie by Tarsem Singh was when he engaged in the screenplay development. After that he did not see much success where all his directed ones were written by others. My perception is that he must do those both department where he’s good at it. Take this film as an example, an awesome story and had a good cast, but the writing was let down according to many who saw it.

Even in the short period of appearance, Ben Kingsley’s role’s legacy carried out till the end, because the concept was designed like that way. Being one of the top actors, Ryan Reylands films are not that celebratable. Though he’s doing a decent flicks often and those were failing to recognise in the higher level, which did not spare this one as well.

People are comparing it to ‘Face/off’, but to me it looked more like coming together of ‘The Island’ and ‘Skeleton Key’. Whatever it is I had a good time. Not a fresh concept of an idea, but narrated differently and it needed a bit depth in showcasing everything in the film.

My formula/secret for watching a movie successfully even it considered as an average or worse is, I won’t bother for all the departments come together to become a well crafted product like the critics expect, because I’m a movie fanatic and love watching them almost most of the time than arguing about its flawed contents. If I find anything solely interesting like acting, music, story, visuals, I respect the efforts. So do I to this one and believe me it is much better than what the critics say so.

7/10