Wednesday, October 26, 2016

The Accountant

Christian Wolff is a mathematical genius who services dangerous criminals and organisations across the globe fronting as a regular CPA. He catches the eye of a Treasury Department agent who takes it upon himself to unravel the mystery around him. When Wolff takes up an assignment to investigate an accounting fraud in a robotics corporate, the count of dead bodies starts rising and the "Accountant" needs to pick up more than his pen and calculator to survive. A high octane and fast paced movie with Ben Affleck doing absolute justice to the intense, ruthless mathematical savant with good support from Anna Kendrick, this movie is a must watch.
P.S - A subtle message in the movie about how people suffering from autism have their own strengths and gifts is in real good taste!

Jack Reacher : Never Go Back

The solitary Reacher heads back to his 110th mountain MP headquarters to meet the major in charge, only to find her arrested on espionage charges. Convinced that there is something amiss about the whole picture he delves deeper into a quagmire of corruption and pilferage of Army weapons. Though stepping into the shoes of Lee Child's Jack Reacher has a height requirement, Tom Cruise fits well into the role just as he did in the first movie of the franchise. Though the second half sees the plot dragged a bit, this is a good popcorn watch.

Saturday, October 15, 2016

Inferno

The veteran symbologist Robert Langdon finds himself in a hospital in Florence with short term memory loss. He tries to piece together why and how he landed up in the situation with the help of his doctor which only leads him into a spiral of dangerous situations featuring Dante's visualization of hell and a dead billionaire with a wild dream to cull over-population with the release of a virus among the public. Hanks is back as Langdon with a bang only to be slightly overtaken in panache by Irfan Khan as an antihero in this sequel. Is this as explosive as Angels and Demons? No, as the Inferno loses its fire in the second half. Is it worth a watch like the Da Vinci Code. Definitely yes. So book your tix.

Saturday, October 1, 2016

M.S.Dhoni : The untold story

The story of a kid hailing from a humble background who fancied football over cricket and who later went on to captain the Indian team in all formats of the game at the number one position in the ICC rankings, the story of M.S. Well, the movie was a tad too long at 3 hours with avoidable songs and the graphics were below average. That said and done, Rajput did a very good job of slipping into the role of Dhoni, picking up nuances of his character and mannerisms. You need to watch this movie as a tribute to the man who rightfully earned the title of 'finisher' in Indian cricket and is a picture of reassurance to 1.2 billion Indians everytime they see him do his signature saunter onto the pitch adjusting his gloves, with the cricket bat under one armpit  - Mahendra Singh Dhoni!