No Strings Attached

My rating: 2 stars out of 5
Starring Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Kline.
This movie can be summed up in one word as “borrringgg”.
It is about a girl Emma (Natalie Portman) who is emotion-less. She doesn’t want to feel sorrow, grief, sadness and because of that she never has a serious relationship. Adam (Ashton Kutcher) is a happy guy though he doesn’t have much to be happy about. (Its the same character Kutcher plays in all in rom-coms). They meet and become friends-with-benefits. Adam starts having feelings for Emma but they are not reciprocated and thus they end their relationship. Not much to anyone’s surprise, they reconcile and try to give commitment a shot.
Natalie Portman was a disappointing factor in the movie. She couldn’t carry out the role given to her. Perhaps if it had been assigned to any other academy non-winning actress, it would have been more believable. Ashton Kutcher is always the same. I think that after doing almost all movies on the same theme, he has pretty much grasped the role. The movie suffered from a dearth of dialogs and background score. It might as well have been a silent movie for all I care. There were too many not required characters and scenes which, if scraped, would have made it more likable. And I simply don’t understand why people feel that use of vulgarity makes anything appealing? In all fairness the movie did have a few moments which made me smile but there is nothing that a good script cannot kill.

No One Killed Jessica

Starring: Myra Karn, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Rani Mukherjee and Vidya Balan.

My rating: three and a half stars.

The movie is about an NDTV correspondent, Meera (Rani Mukherjee), who describes the Jessica Lal murder case, who was murdered by Manu Sharma, a politician’s son. It starts with the way the family and friends were affected by it and goes on to show how the almighty politicians took over and turned the case around in their favour. The second half of the movie tells the role of the media in bringing justice to the victim and family by creating a nation-wide wave of awareness about justice declined.

It was a good movie where the concept was concerned. Even the cinematography was good to some extent but the movie had its short-falls. The whole i-am-a-tough-girl-who-swears thing didn’t work out for Rani. There wasn’t an ease and a flow with which she swore. The media was hyped more than what was warranted by the plot which reduced the charm of Indianism. All in all, a one time watch.

The Dark Knight

My rating: 5 stars out of 5 Starring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman & Maggie Gyllenhaal
The movie is flawless. It has nothing of the crap in the first movie. No background as to why a man would like to become “Batman” and how. It is pure batman which we have been viewing and reading since we learned to view and read. As in the last batman movie, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Christian Bale play the same roles of Alfred, Lucius Fox and Bruce Wayne-Batman respectively.
The Joker (Heath Ledger) is supremely portrayed. The action sequels are too real looking. Not even for a minute will u feel it to be the result of excellent computer skills. That’s because, I have read somewhere that it isn’t. It is all real, with the real truck flipping and everything. There is also a part where the reason for Two-Face to be so is explained.
When I said it to be flawless I mean it. There isn’t unreal make-up, comic looking things which are there in the books and cartoon. No colours on the face that shouldn’t be there. It is a movie which has made Heath Ledger immortal. He is even better than Jack Nicholson.
A must must watch. And watch it on a big screen to get the real feel and thrill of the movie, exactly what the movie is designed for.