Kill Bill Vol. 2

Kung Fu! Quentin Tarantino style. The second part of the movie, actually it’s just that he went about making Kill Bill and realized late that it had become too long for western audiences – so he clipped it into two. But true to the Tarantino style of story telling this one lives up to his reputation. This part however doesn’t have as much action if you have already seen the first part, but nevertheless there is more story telling and scene setting done here. That’s Quentin Tarantino for you jigsaw style filmmaking, the moviegoers have to put the pieces together.

Uma Thurman, David Carridine & Michael Madsen show loads of style in their histrionics. Need to watch both the volumes back to back to enjoy the complete experience.

My Take - Hmmm! ■■■■■

The Machurian Candidate

What happen's when an influential private equity megacorp Machurian Global using bad science tries to get their zombie candidate as the President of the United States? You get the The Manchurian Candidate. A more contemporary version of the 1962 film of the same name which had the Chinese as the bad guys and Frank Sinatra instead of Denzel Washington playing the protagonist, this is more a fictitious version of the controversial Fahrenheit 9/11.

Interesting plot though it gets a little intertwined in itself, it is a nice to watch movie, especially if you are the types who like a bit of political espionage that is inspired from reality.

My Take - Hmmm! ■■■■■

State of Grace

The 1990 movie on the Irish mob in New York, State of Grace is a well crafted thriller judded with stars of the likes of Sean Penn, Ed Harris, and Gary Oldman. Good performances by each of these artistes, knowing the kind of actors they are they never disappoint you. My favourite bit is this dialog that Sean Penn says "You believe in the Angels, or the saints. And you believe it, but it hasn't anything to do with reality.".

It's also the movie Sean Penn met his wife Robin Wright (Kelly of Santa Barbara fame) who co-stars with him.

Ofcourse this is not one of the best mob movies you would have seen, expecially not in a category which has Godfather in it.

My Take - Hmmm! ■■■■■

The Last Temptation of Christ

Blasphemy! That’s what the Christian world said when they saw "The Last Temptation of Christ”. It’s been 17 years since the controversy on this Martin Scorsese flick. Deftly executed in terms of the content and cinematography, this movie rakes up a lot of issues on the divinity or rather the humanness of Christ.

Got a chance to see it at last and yes even though I don’t call myself a hardliner it did make me a little uncomfortable watching it. I'm of course willing to believe that Martin Scorsese had access to some information that the laity in the christian world is not aware of (read as the non fictional Da Vinci code if there may be).

All in all, I must say do watch it, but with a lot of caution lest you need to question your belief system.

My Take - Yeah! ■■■■■