Day: Mar 30, 2019

Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

first off all i need to come clean, this might be a shock but i havent been upto date with marvel movies……i know shocker. for past 2 years i havent watched any of their movies, but i finally stopped the break and thought lets get into it again before the endgame appears. so i decided with this film (many more marvels coming soon).

if you weren’t living under a rock in planet Mars then you probably heard about the Marvel Cinematic Universe its a little something thats been going on for a little while, like just 10 years. So this is a part of that universe telling a sequel to the first party the Antman (2015). the plot of this movie is that Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) thinks up a hypothesis to save his wife Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer) who has been stuck in the quantum level. During this time Our hero Antman Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) has been under house arrest because of the Incident in Civil War (another marvel movie if you were in Mars). In the last movie Antman was stuck in the same quantum level like Hank’s wife thus they had a incident of quantum entanglement……ya i am not even gonna try to explain. basically witht the help of Scott hank And his daughter Hope (Evangeline Lilly) will try to save Janet. while they do that FBI is trying to Catch them, Black market thugs want to get hands on Pym’s labs And the major Villian Ghost a Quantam Fazzing assassin of S.H.I.E.L.D who needs the Pym technologies to survive.

i know that was a lot of quantum, but the movie has more of it like seriously the movies is quantum and nothing else.

The best part of this movie is the light heartiness compared to lot of the other more recent marvel movies and its jokes and humour. That is the nature of this franchise and it does a good job in that regards. Paul does excellent work in his character, but for me the best character was the supporting character Luis (Michael Peña), who just makes it fun to watch the movie. The Truth serum scene was among the funniest and best scenes of the movie.

the movies ending climax is a bit rushed and lazy but nonetheless its not like i go for these movies for super great writing. i did enjoy the movie not among the best marvel has to offer but sure a fun watch thats the tag i guess and a rate of 6/10

32 movies down…….468 to go.

see you soon

Excelsior

Solo (2017)

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First off all NOT the Starwars film, but a Malayalam 2017 film, which is an anthology film Consisting of 4 separate stories that focus on the natural elements….Water, Air, Fire and Earth.

the first story revolves around theme water, protagonist shekar (Dulquer Salmaan) who is a stutter falls in love with a blind Dancer Radhika (Dhansika) and the troubles they face because of it. life is like a river and we are just humble travellers on it, no matter how the tides change we have to be strong and endure for our loved ones.

the Second story revolves around the theme of Air, protagonist Trilok (Dulquer Salmaan) saves a man who caused the death of his wife 4 years prior in a road accident. the story follows just like a cool breeze suddenly turning into a hurricane.

the Third Story revolves around the theme of fire, the Protagonist Shiva (Dulquer Salmaan) a gangster sets out on revenge for the death of his fathers death by an unknown assailant. The movie showcases just like the uncontrollable nature of the deadly fire or anger burning and destroying everything in its path.

The Fourth story revolves arounf theme Earth, the Protagonist Rudra (Dulquer Salmaan) who is a army officer falls in love with Daughter of a brigadier (Neha Sharma) who love each other deeply until one day She suddenly runs away and leaves him. Just a earth shaking reveal is left of the audience.

if you noticed the star in all the stories is Dulquer as he is doing a quadruple role in this film. and he delivers this is amongst his best performances i would say. the actresses that play a key role in all the other stories also did a great job.

the 4 protagonists name are the alternative names of the lord Shiva (A Hindu Deity), and each story follows its themes and showcases it with its relative element again and again in its scenes. like how the significance of beaches(water) was to Radhika, how much anger(fire) Shiva was in always, how turbulent/calm (air) Trilok was or how a Rudra or any army soldiers train in earth and terrains. the movie also has a colour pallet for the respective stories that expresses it with a special color tone. In Shekhar – Blue (Water) In Trilok – White (Air) In Shiva – Red (Fire) In Rudra – Green(Earth)

among the movies Shiva’s Fire was my favourite, with air and water coming close but the earth story is just a bit empty for me as it just doesn’t have the same closure to it, especially it being the climax, and it was a complain that was felt by most who watched it. nonetheless all are good stories on the own right but i really felt fire had a scope to be a feature length in itself. the best thing in this movie is the art work that introduces the new story and its corresponding theme in various forms of lord Shiva with the elements, they were just so stunning to look at.

this is not a movie for everyone as someone looking for a masala film this one wouldn’t work out. i thoroughly enjoyed this movie sure it has its problems but i will look past them, as i say if you like it then what else matters, i would rate this movie a 7/10 and a tag of good watch.

31 movies down……..469 to go.

see you soon.

Pinne kaanam (malayali goodbye)