DialR4Review: 2022

Thursday, December 22, 2022

Avatar: The Way of Water

Movie: Avatar: The Way of Water
Language: English
Media Partner: Nil
Source: Nil
DialR4Review RATED 8/10

The first two things comes in my mind: Positive one, the movie and making takes us to their world and I really lived three hours in their world. Thanks to IMAX and great 3D experience The negative one: There are lot of moments reiterated from the first part. Lot of scenes looks like first part sequences remade in water world with more technical excellence. I was stunned and had lot of jaw dropping moments in first part. Compared to that one, this one has less. At the same time this is not less in class and mass. The beginning and end has superb action sequences, in between there are more sentiments and taking viewer slowly into the new world from Pandora. See it in Imax with 3d to live their world.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1630029/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1

Sunday, November 27, 2022

Significant Other

Movie: Significant Other
Language: English
Media Partner: Nil
Source: Nil
DialR4Review RATED 7/10

The making and story clearly exposes that this is low budget one. The cast is awesome and did their part very well to make this movie as watchable one. The story and the presentation are quite simple not much complicating sci-fi factors. At last the climax concludes the simple story very well. Just lower your expectations and better don't read the synopsis before watching the movie. You will really enjoy this venture. One time watchable

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15353964/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Halloween Ends

Movie: Halloween Ends
Language: English
Media Partner: Nil
Source: Nil
DialR4Review RATED 6/10

The Kills itself was bit letdown and with little hope started to watch this movie and it didn't fail my expectation, failed miserably. There is not even single moment is unique in this movie and it was like re-watching the earlier episodes. The ending was so simple and it went off just like that. This is not the ending we expected and this not the franchise deserved. If this is the ending, then they should have stopped three years before itself.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10665342/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1

The School for Good and Evil

Movie: The School for Good and Evil
Language: English
Media Partner: Netflix
Source: Netflix
DialR4Review RATED 7/10

I liked this fantasy drama with colourful presentation. The story is OK and the magic/fantasy picturization are quite good. The cast are opt. The sentiment and romance are spread across the movie. The first let down starts from the story and templated good Vs evil sequences. If they conclude the movie as black&White (Hero&Villain) then it would be nice watch, rather it ended as so grey, they try to make villains also as good one and It questions the existence of the school. Good one time watch with family and kids. There is no frightening sequences and good entertainer.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2935622/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Krishna Vrinda Vihari

Movie: Krishna Vrinda Vihari
Language: Telugu
Media Partner: Nil
Source: Netflix
DialR4Review RATED 7/10

The movie has ingredients to deliver the perfect feel good family drama like, good comedy, cute romance, big family and care free hero. Most of the things clicked very well and ended up nice family drama with some very good sequences. But some of the scenes are overdone in some places and it leads to burnt out output But the feel good factor over come these negatives and make it a entertaining watch. Some scenes and the basic story reminds me of "Ante Sundharaniki" and stops me to recommend this movie for must watch. One time watchable for the colourful presentation and genuine delivery.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19893706/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

My Dear Bootham

Movie: My Dear Bootham
Language: Tamil
Media Partner: Zee5
Source: Nil
DialR4Review RATED 1/10

The movie is meant for kids but it is so childish and the social message conveyed in the movie also in very wrong way. The big letdown and missed opportunity. Prabu Deva cast as Bootham is fantastic and he fit to the role very well. Other than him everyone is mis cast and too cliche in acting. All the negatives are touched in non interesting manner and the solution they proposed also not at all working. The teacher, mother and friends characters are all so artificial and their realisation sequence are so pathetic. Just dont waste your time and your kid time

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16899852/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1

Moloch

Movie: Moloch
Language: Dutch
Media Partner: Nil
Source: Nil
DialR4Review RATED 7/10

I liked this movie from the beginning to end. It is bit slow paced but the scare moments are there uniformly from beginning to end. The Lift scene and the climax scenes are so awesome and they are still haunting. There are lot more unanswered characters and shots. But the climax make it forget everything. Quite good horror with decent story to watch in the weekend with good sound.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14412446/

Sunday, November 20, 2022

Love Today

Movie: Love Today
Language: Tamil
Media Partner: Netflix
Source: Nil
DialR4Review RATED 10/10

It is complete entertainer to watch with friends. There is good laugh, sentiment and romance throughout the movie. There is no dull moment and great entertainer to watch with some good messages also. The director knows the pulse of the youth and current trending and used everything perfectly. The writing and direction was great to make the short film to feature film. I was expecting more on earlier short to feature film, but disappointed in "Kaathalil sothappuvathu eppadi" , but this one handled very well and added lot more extensions to the short film. The best extension is Yogi Babu portion. The problem with this movie is this cant be watched with parents, because of cuss words and the point blank secret revealing of youths..... I cant think of anymore finetuning for this movie.... best one

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22488728/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Saturday, November 5, 2022

Prince

Movie: Prince
Language: Tamil
Media Partner: Nil
Source: Nil
DialR4Review RATED 5/10

Full length comedy movie where the comedy didn't workout anywhere. There is no comic sequence and no catchy screenplay. They took the funny story line but the presentation failed miserably. The one liners are supposed to be a fire cracker in this kind of movie, but most of the time they just failed as cringe. If new face acted in the lead role, then it might be worked out somewhat, the expectations in SK and Director spoiled the whole fun. There are totally two scenes worth watching all others are just below par. Big letdown from director after Jaathi Ratnalu and Actor after Don.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15576578/

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Kantara

Movie: Kantara
Language: Kannada
Media Partner: Prime Video
Source: Nil
DialR4Review RATED 7/10

The movie is raw and authentic, that makes this movie more unique in presentation. The camera work is awesome. The cast and acting is too good. Rakshit used the ambience and the festival perfectly to make this venture to navigate in different genres like adventure, horror and crime Below negative observations, might be because of over hypes: The forest fights and scenes reminds me of pushpa. And the festival reminds me of “shuzhal”… I was expecting more on how this festival interwoven with the presentation, but it was just used as another property The climax looks more cinematic compared to the previous blocks, bit disappointed with cliche climax fight. Great making, still wants to have more…

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15327088/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Suzhal - The Vortex

Movie: Suzhal - The Vortex
Language: Tamil
Media Partner: Prime Video
Source: Prime Video
DialR4Review RATED 8/10

The best part of the series is the festival and how they captured it so colourful and in grand manner. The characters are bit interesting and very raw in the first episode. After that the characters becomes like cliche. Each episode reveals one knot and each character name is cleared. Some twists are really entertaining to watch. We can predict most of the episode ending still the screenplay and writing makes it watch without forward. Aishwarya character and the climax revelations are so cinematic and not giving the punching finishing touch. The last episode was big thud because of Aishwarya character and highly predictability. With all these predictability, it is treat to watch because of thrill factors in the writing and the festival.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20873118/

Thursday, October 20, 2022

Luckiest Girl Alive

Movie: Luckiest Girl Alive
Language: English
Media Partner: Netflix
Source: Netflix
DialR4Review RATED 7/10

The non linear flashback worked well for this movie. But it lacks the punch and it constantly reminds me of the movie "promising young woman" even after complete the movie. Mila Quins and the younger girl acting was quite good and the climax transformation is really awesonme. It shows more of the pain than the transformation. May be the victim family background/situation is not much explained or I didn't understand it. They took two sensitive and ongoing issues and blended it with single victim. It looks little bit overdone for me. Still it is worth the watch.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4595186/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

The Roundup

Movie: The Roundup
Language: Korean
Media Partner: Nil
Source: Prime Video
DialR4Review RATED 8/10

Good sequel still there is no connection between the first part in story wise. They just reused the characters and made one good fictional action drama. The swag of Detective Ma worked very well and the action blocks in the regular intervals holds the audience attention. The Climax kidnapping sequence and Combat gives the full punch. The story and presentation is not new is still old wine in new bottle. The seriousness and comic is blended well in this crime action drama. Good action masala to enjoy in the weekend with full tub of popcorn.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15838850/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Buffoon

Movie: Buffoon
Language: Tamil
Media Partner: Nil
Source: Netflix
DialR4Review RATED 7/10

The movie is decent thriller with its own flaws. The best part of the movie is it is not boring at any moment and no speed breakers in the name of sentiment and romance. The negative point is that the pain and situation of hero is not conveyed to the audience, may be because of lack of character development. Another problem in the story is that the morality of each character is changing on each sequence. The romance and refugee backdrop is just used for logic in the screenplay. With all these flaws it has some witty moments with Ilayaraja (Muthaiya).

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14391226/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

The Sound of 007

Movie: The Sound of 007
Language: English
Media Partner: Prime Video
Source: Prime Video
DialR4Review RATED 8/10

I start to watch Bond movies from Golden Eye and it is really awesome for me to know about the history of bond. The origin of the bond theme and everyone's involvement from the beginning to end is analysed in detail. The documentary has some really classic footages and it is really great to know about the history. It brings back the nostalgia of school and college days with the improvements and variations of theme over the period. This is really awesome to watch in 5.1 surround sound in big screen. At the same time the documentary feeling is unavoidable and bit slow in the middle.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16433236/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

The Curse of Bridge Hollow

Movie: The Curse of Bridge Hollow
Language: English
Media Partner: Netflix
Source: Netflix
DialR4Review RATED 8/10

First of all, this is horror movie for kids at the same time it is not childish. Watchable for adults and recommended for kids. The cast is good and story is OK. The CG work is adequate for the movie. The story is bit templated and predictable but it was overcome by the entertaining screenplay. There is no dull moment and I really loved the skeleton fight sequence. There is no scary sequences and beware of the arachnophobia. Best movie to enjoy with family in weekend.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15289240/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Sunday, October 9, 2022

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Movie: Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Language: English
Media Partner: Nil
Source: Nil
DialR4Review RATED 8/10

I liked this unique adventure movie. It is so good in all aspects and genre. It has quite good amount of comedy, sentiments and drama. The movie begin with some great atmosphere and the sentiment start to grow from the beginning. I was expecting something sinister by seeing the locations and characters, but the movie flow completely takes into the different direction and it was quite enjoyable journey. The manhunt is quite funny and the self realisation through the adventure are quite good. The climax is more cliche and cinematic, but its not stop recommending this one.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4698684/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3

Vengeance

Movie: Vengeance
Language: English
Media Partner: Nil
Source: Nil
DialR4Review RATED 7/10

I stopped watching after 10 minutes of the movie, looks like boring one. Started watch again and it really hooked me till the end. As an outsider, understood/learn lot about Texas and really want to try once in Whataburger. The movie pace really picked after after the first twenty minutes. The music factory and Ashton's dialogs are simply superb. The self realisation and the climax sequences are bit cinematic but enjoyable to watch. The movie has multiple conclusions in the last 3o minutes and I loved each one of them. And each one is better than the previous one.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11976532/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Friday, September 30, 2022

Ponniyin Selvan: Part One

Movie: Ponniyin Selvan: Part One
Language: Tamil
Media Partner: Amazon prime
Source: Nil
DialR4Review RATED 10/10

Movie is faithful to the book and author. They made the real classic with enough class and mass moments. If you read the book, you can enjoy every hidden things, if not still you can enjoy this epic with its majestic presentation. The songs are choreographed very well and most of the songs over in the first half itself. The placement of the songs are so good and they didnt break the flow. The camera work is so good, whether war scene or horse race, everything is captured so well and each and every frame is so class even with difficult angles. the best example is Karkalan forgiving the Rashtrakoodan scene from his horse. This is real milestone in Tamil cinema, Mani Ratnam did it without any compromise. The Pazhuvettaiyar anger towards Kundavai, Nandini interaction with other characters, Kundavai Vanthiyathevan first love are not shown...They omitted all this because of Movie and its timing. The only disappointment was Poonkulali character intro missing. My biggest worry while watching the movie was, "it is going to end" why why it is ending....they should have added another 30 minutes. The cast and their roles are perfectly fit. The production values and CG work are top notch. Spoilers ahead: They reduced Alvarkkadiyan role and Vanthiyathevan did all his work by own No Manimegalai role and they used her name, thats it No Kudanthai Jothidar and the complete Kundavai-Vanthiyathevan initial intro scenes. Sol Song is not there in first part Poonkulali character intro was so abrupt and not detailed in the movie. Real disappointment.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10701074/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Thursday, September 29, 2022

Adventureland

Movie: Adventureland
Language: English
Media Partner: Nil
Source: Nil
DialR4Review RATED 7/10

The characters are unique and each one has their own background stories and justification for their crimes. The movie goes and explores each persons character and their pain from their own point of view. All the characters are super grey. The best part is that it is not single genre, it has romance, comedy, adulatory, dark and complete mixture of emotions. The cast is ultimate and acting was good. There is no dull moment and the pace was good enough for the story. Ryan Renolds role and his mature guidance/advice is bit surprise for me. This is not comedy or romantic movie, but it is a good mixture of everything.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1091722/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

R.I.P.D

Movie: R.I.P.D
Language: English
Media Partner: Nil
Source: Netflix
DialR4Review RATED 8/10

This fantasy adventure movie has all ingredients to make the weekend as the blasting one. The movie is bundled with hilarious and action blocks. Some times it feels so silly some times it is serious. But the Fantasy angle covers all the negatives and make this as a complete entertainer. The cast and RIPD partner are perfect. The production values and GFX works are surprisingly good. I liked the human views of RIPD agents and how they add fun factor with this idea. It is not perfect, it follows the evil Vs bad template and destroying dark world climax etc. So lower your expectations you will be surprised.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790736/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Movie: The Holiday
Language: English
Media Partner: Nil
Source: Netflix
DialR4Review RATED 9/10

Light hearted, feel good romantic comedy. The cast are great and cute. The story is very thin but the real surprise is the screenplay and the rom-com flavour from the beginning to the end. Two different characters literally swapped their lives and how they self analyse their negatives and come out of this is presented is highly entertaining way. I loved the climax portion even though it is sum of all cliche. I liked the love portion of Cameron than Kate. The Kate love portion is not detailed well and it looks like hurriedly done. Otherwise it is perfect in all aspects. Don't miss it, perfect watch to enjoy the weekend with your partner.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457939/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Anger Management

Movie: Anger Management
Language: English
Media Partner: Nil
Source: Netflix
DialR4Review RATED 7/10

I liked Jack Nicholson very much and enjoyed his reaction on every scene. Sandler was easily overshadowed in this drama. The monk scene is real fun. There are lot of funny and silly moments. This fun moments are fine and when its get repetitive over the anger management I lost the interest in the flow. Some cringe moments looks more offensive than funny. But the movie ended as a satisfying watch mainly because of the cast and their great acting.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0305224/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

X

Movie: X
Language: English
Media Partner: Nil
Source: Amazon Prime
DialR4Review RATED 5/10

Sleazy horror movie with dead slow narration. This is not scary one. The movie story told in single letter - X. That's all, nothing special in the movie. The killings are more gore and not much interesting/frightening one. The long shots test the patience of the viewer. The cast is good but the story is run of the mill and it couldn't save the movie. The reason behind the killings are disgusting. I felt really sick when they shown the same in screen.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13560574/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1