Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Run Lola Run

a thrilling German movie...movie shows the same incident with 3 different outcomes...each outcome being better than the previous one....

Basic Plot
story is about a couple Manni and Lola...Manni has sold diamonds to a merchant and is planning to give that money to his boss...however he forgets the money while disembarking from the train and a bum gets hold of him...since he is not able to pay the money to his boss, he is given a deadline of 12 nooon to get 100,000 marks....Manni calls up Lola at 11:40 AM and tell her that he is in deep trouble and is in urgent need of 100,000 marks in 20 mins....if he is unable to get the money he will rob the superstore in front of the phone booth..

Outcomes
Characters and incidents repeat in each of the outcomes...each sequences in the outcomes have been shot at the same place...though the outcome is a bit different..the best one is the last outcome where the couple walks away with 127,000 marks (won in a casino) and are even able to repay 100,000 marks (which Manni is able to retrieve from the bum)....

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Righteous Kill: Legends come together

pretty decent thriller...thgh was expecting more considering de niro's and pacino's repertoire...

Story revolves arnd 2 cops De Niro (Turk) and Pacino (Rooster) who are trying to solve a case of serial killers who has killed 14 people...turns out at the end that rooster himself is the serial killer...throughout the move viewer thinks that it is turk who is doing this act however it turns out to be the other way...

Monday, March 02, 2009

Following: What a beginning for Nolan

this guy is truly a genius...Nolan should now make such short/interesting movies after mega blockbusters like Dark Knight and Batman Begins....the story is so beautifully narrated...there are several twists and the non linear plot (like Memento and Prestige) keeps you thinking...

ths story basically revolves arnd 3 characters Bill, Cobb and the blonde...Bill is a compulsive follower who has the habit of following people and see where they end..on one such instance he follows Cobb...Cobb who is a burglar befriends him and starts involving him in petty crimes...in the meantime Bill gets into a relationship with a blonde (who is constantly being blackmailed a local club owner)....On her request, Bill decides to loot the club's safe so as to retrieve blonde's sleazy pics and money...however it turns out that the safe didnt have any of her pics and Bill realizes that he is being used as a pawn...While looting the safe he also injures one of the policeman with a hammer...
At a later point it is revealed that Cobb was manipulating Bill so as to have him caught by police for a murder of an old woman in which he was involved (thgh he didnt commit it)...however here comes another twist...there is no such old woman and in fact Bill (who is working for the club owner) has killed the blonde...since Bill had previously looted blonde's house he is held guilty by the police.....