Kick-Ass

Saw the movie Kick-Ass directed by Matthew Vaughn this week. It has been a long time since I had endorphins pumping through my body after watching a movie but Kick-Ass did exactly that.Anyone who has ever wished to be a superhero, pretended to fly, super punch, turn invisible or just plain kick some ass but knew you never could...here's the movie for you!


Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) is a typical New York teenager, who is a comic-book fan, and not in any particular group in High School. He is ignored by girls, including Katie (Lyndsy Fonseca), the girl he fancies. Dave however fantasises about what it would be like to be a superhero and he makes an effort to make it happen. After his first attempt at vigilante justice Dave ends up having a big accident and his nerve endings are damage. But this gives him a high pain threshold and after being videotaped fighting three men at once Dave becomes a internet sensation and his alter-ego, Kick-Ass is born. But Dave as Kick-Ass gets in over his head when he meets two real heroes, Big Daddy (Nicholas Cage), and his young girl Hit-Girl (Chloe Moretz), a brilliant martial artist and skilled assassin. Big Daddy sets out to bring down the crime lord Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong), taking down his organisation from the bottom up. As Kick-Ass Dave is brought into their violence world. As well as these superhero actives Dave has to hide his identity, whilst using his fame in the internet age to help people out through Myspace. He also finally get's Katie's attentions, but for all the wrong reasons.


The acting from the entire cast was spectacular, but the one who stole the show for me was Chloe Moretz as the Hit-Girl - the incredibly volatile young superhero with a penchant for explicit language, which will surely propel her into the realms of stardom.


This is a top-notch directing by Matthew Vaughn. This movie will definitely make him one of the most sought after directors in the Hollywood. The way handled the action sequences was really incredible. There were some really impressive action sequences in this movie. The only other movie IMO that had these many incredible action sequences was Kill Bill. 


Kick-Ass is definitely a welcome addition to the realm of the comic-book movies. I had a blast watching this movie, I hope that you will too.In the end, Kick-Ass is not perfect, and it will not cater to everyone's tastes, but it is easily one of the most fun films of 2010.


My Rating: 4.5/5

I Hate Luv Storys

Yesterday night I went to the movies to watch the movie I Hate Luv Storys. The movie is the first venture for the director Punit Malhotra. To be frank I didn't expect much when I decided to watch this yesterday but I was pleasantly surprised.

Imran Khan stars as Jay, a typical Casanova who doesn,t believe in the word 'love' yet works as the Assistant to one of the most successful romantic directors in the bollywood industry, Veer Kapoor played by Sameer Soni. Sonam Kapoor stars as Simran, a typical bollywood girly character who works as an Art Director for Veer and has a perfect fiancé Raj played by Sameer Dattani. The two lead characters are off to a rough start. But Veer decides to punish Jay for his lousy behavior by transferring him under Simran as a prop buyer(Although I don't believe that any director would do this since props are important and it needs to handled by experts...carrying on).

This way the leads get to spend more time with each other, during which we get to see the same old bollywood romantic clichés. But the way the director carried it was good, there were some really good comic scenes that made me laugh. The Music by Vishal-Shekar is vibrant and the background score by Salim Sullaiman really brings life for the movie. Though there were some scenes which were "inspired" from HIMYM, like  'The Hot Vs Crazy scale', 'The Climax', etc, I liked this film.

The first half of the movie is really good whereas the second half brings us the same old romantic clichés. In the end if you don't demand too much, you will definitely exit the theaters with a smile on your face.

My Rating: 3/5

Killer Bride's Perfect Crime

The day before yesterday I saw a Japanese flick, Killer Bride's Perfect Crime AKA Killer Virgin Road. This movie is the directorial debut of Actor Gorô Kishitani. The movie is about a young woman Hiroko, who has spent most of her 25 years failing at everything but somehow managed to fall in love with a man of her dreams.

But on the night before her wedding, she accidentally kills her landlord and then discovers that he has been stalking her for a while now. So making her escape with the landlord in a suitcase, she drives to a forest near Mount Fuji where she plans to leave the body and, after her big day, turn herself in to the police. There she runs into Fukuko, a girl who is trying--and failing--to commit suicide by hanging herself from a tree.Fukuko offers to help Hiroko dispose of the corpse on one condition,  Hiroko must help Fukuko become a corpse herself.

But they are not alone in the forest, they are on the run from a menacing motorcycle gang and a frantic young cop on a bicycle. From here on we can fairly guess whats going to happen next.

In the end this is a slapstick road movie that tries to deliver an emotional punch while shining rays of hope on its female target audience. This is one movie that you could enjoy watching with your buddies over an weekend.

My Rating: 3.5/5

Attack the Gas Station!

Two days back I watched a Korean flick named Attack the Gas Station!(1999) directed by Kim Sang-Jin. This was one of the biggest hits in Korea. This movie begins as four young Korean punks rip off a All Night Service Gas Station.

In this group of four there's a failed artist, a failed baseball player, the singer of a failed band and a failed bully. Their life is a dead end, and they're bored as hell. And so they decide to attack the same All Night Service Gas Station again. Why? Because it's fun. Because they can. Why not? They rob the station and take the owner and his teenage staff hostage. As the gang attends to the customers to keep all quiet, they realize that instead of just robbing the place, they can make even more money by keeping the money that the patrons give them for pumping their gas!

This is when the real fun starts. The way they treat the rude customers, the way they piss off the delivery boy and the way they beat up some high school punks.This leads to a big gang fight in the Climax and the way the director handles the group dynamics is great. The director has made great use of the limited locations used.

This flick had some really amazing performance by all the lead actors.The movie is very fun and mixes the Action/Drama/Comedy together real well. While some parts are a little silly and cheesy, and there are still goofs this makes for a nice movie to watch and keep in the collection one you could watch over and over and still be able to laugh. I definitely recommend to anyone who is a fan of crime capers, like Snatch and Pulp Ficiton.

My Rating: 3.5/5

Toy Story 3

I am sorry for not posting regularly but after seeing Toy Story 3, I couldn't stop myself from posting about it. I still remember the day when my father took me to the cinema to watch Toy Story, the movie was something that every child loved back then. Later came Toy Story 2, again it was a blast. Now after ten years comes the finale to this trilogy, I am now past my teenage years. I thought that i would not enjoy this as much as i did in my childhood but to my surprise this movie almost made me cry.

Toy Story 3 is the story of our classic and new favorite characters Woody, Buzz, Slinky, Ham, Rex and friends as they try to cope with the fact that Andy is going off to college. They haven't been played with in years and they're becoming restless. As much as they want to believe Andy will save them and keep them in the attic as Woody predicts, our beloved toys start to question his motives as college day is coming and Andy's old room is starting to deteriorate into a trash hold. Which will Andy decide upon? The plot for this movie at first glance made me very satisfied, seeing as Pixar and the writers are trying to follow the time frame we are accustomed to. Back in 1999 when Andy found his new toys Jesse and Bullseye, he was still a child with imagination and joy to play with these toys. Ten years later, he is no longer a child but grown into a graduating senior who is ready to venture off the college for the first time. This plot is a classic scenario that new-bound college teens deal with on their moving date: whether or not to give up hold on our childish bonds. It's time to grow up sometime. This plot grabbed me in easily. As the rest of the movie continued, Pixar led us on a classic Toy Story adventure.

There where some really funny scenes such as the scene where Ken and Barbie meet for the first time and of course the scene when Buzz is reset and becomes El Buzzo and dances to salsa music with Jesse. In the whole this a movie for all ages and is definitely gonna grab some Oscars this year.

My Rating: 5/5 

The Maiden Heist

Yesterday after going out with my family, I came home and watched the flick The Maiden Heist at night. This movie is meant to be a comedy but I didn't find anything funny in this flick where one would laugh their ass out. Except for one or two funny scenes there isn't anything funny about this flick. However the movie is not bad it turns out to be an innocent crime movie.

Charles played by Morgan Freeman, Roger Barlow played by Christopher Walken and George McLendon played by William H. Macy are three security guards working in a Museum. They have been working there for a long time and they get attached to the artwork that they guard everyday. Roger gets attached to the painting "The Lonely Maiden", Charles gets attached to the painting "Young Girl with Cats" and George gets attached to the statue "The Bronze Warrior". But the museum decides to send all the artwork to Denmark and replace them with new ones. So the three of them get together to pull off an heist to steal these three artwork.

I liked the performance of Christopher Walken and Marcia Gay Harden starring as the wife of Roger Barlow. The director Peter Hewitt somehow managed to show the planning of the heist and the execution of the heist have some believable complications, and what's done about them are believable as well.

In the end the story of the movie seems to be that even an ordinary man can get attached to an artwork and begin to enjoy it.

My Rating: 2.5/5 .

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Well the holidays have started for me here from today and I started the first day by watching this flick Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. The movie was hilarious and I enjoyed every bit of it. I am a huge fan of Will Ferrell and this flick is one of his best movies.

Will Ferrell stars as Ron Burgundy who is San Diego's top rated anchorman in the male dominated broadcasting of the 1970's. His Channel 4 News team comprises of Champ Kind, the sports reporter played by David Koechner, Brian Fantana, the video reporter played by Paul Rudd and Brick Tamland, the dumb wheaterman played by Steve Carell. Together the four of them are the No.1 news team in San Diego and they go around bragging about it.

This is about to change when a new attractive female employee joins the Channel 4 News team, Veronica Corningstone played by Christina Applegate. Soon Burgundy and Veronica fall in love. One day a misadventure by Burgundy results in Veronica's pinch-hitting chance to anchor the evening news and she scores it big time. The remaining plot is about Ron's revenge and Veronica's counterattacks.

There are some really funny scenes like the scene where all the news teams of the competing stations led by Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller and Tim Robbins battle it out with each other. Guys when you watch this flick dont forget to watch the outtakes as the end credits role, especially Ferrell's last comment on what the movie really is.

In the end this is a flick which you can watch with your buddies and have a blast laughing.

My Rating: 3.5/5 

Worlds Greatest Dad

This is the movie that I saw this afternoon after finishing my final exam of this semester. Well I saw this film hoping that it will be some fun movie for the kids to have a good time (and by kids I mean me, even though I am a 20 year old fatty). But when I saw this flick, it didn't turnout to be the film I hoped rather this was a very dark and disturbing adult drama which had me laughing and crying at the same time.

Robin Williams stars as Lance Clayton the father of an young Kyle Clayton(Daryl Sabara), a pervy sex-obsessed insolent teenager. Lance dreams to get his written work published when he is not teaching poetry at his son's school. He doesn't get any respect from his colleagues and the students aren't interested in enrolling for his poetry class and to top this his young girlfriend also treats him unfairly.

One day an unexpected(rather embarassing) tragedy occurs at Lance's house, he tries to cover certain embarassing facts and by doing so he accedently gains respect among his colleagues and his students. His dream of getting his written work published also comes true. This flick makes you wonder what people will do for fame even if they need to be a muse.

Robin Williams and Daryl Sabara have done exceptionally well. Their performance was one of the factors for this movie's success. Another person that has done his part brilliantly was the young Evan Martin who plays Andrew, the one and only friend of Kyle. And not to forget the brilliant work of the Director Bobcat Goldthwait.

In the end this is one of the best films of 2009 and a must watch flick for those who enjoy dark comedy.

My Rating: 3.5/5