**½ Vettatam (2009) - Tamil

Revenge story with expected story twists and turns. Songs are a surprise treat in the movie. Picturisation of "Kangal Pesum" song is different and a good attempt.

Cast: Ajay, Remya Nambeesan, Madhulika

Category : Revenge, Drama

1 - Are you that bored to watch this movie
2 - Very average
3 - Could have been made better
4 - A must watch
5 - You must be crazy to miss this one

*** I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (2009)

One liner: Hangover made in medium budget.

Cast: Matt Czuchry, Jesse Bradford

Category : Comedy

1 - Are you that bored to watch this movie
2 - Very average
3 - Could have been made better
4 - A must watch
5 - You must be crazy to miss this one

*** GOA (2010) Tamil

Venkat prabhu missed his hatrick with venturing on GOA (fun trip for the crew). A thin line story of 3 villegers having a midset to go GOA and get fixed themselves with foreigners and settle their life just like their common friend. No fun intended unless you are core fan of Premji amaran.

Nothing new, infact most of the scenes are boring. Sampath and Akash characters are new in tamil cinema.

One liner: Fun for the movie crew.

Cast: Premji, Jai, Sampath, Akash, Sneha, Piyaa etc

Category : Comedy

1 - Are you that bored to watch this movie
2 - Very average
3 - Could have been made better
4 - A must watch
5 - You must be crazy to miss this one

**½ Surrogates (2009)

Read the Gamer review and replace gamers to human bodies. I think the 10 year old kid would say how the next scene would turn to be.

One liner: Want to play how each scene ends, try this movie.

Cast: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell

Category : sci-fi

1 - Are you that bored to watch this movie
2 - Very average
3 - Could have been made better
4 - A must watch
5 - You must be crazy to miss this one

**½ Gamer (2009)

Reality and video games merge sci-fi action thriller. Mind-control technology allows humans to control the actions and movements of other humans, "Slayers" is the ultimate video game mass-scale, multiplayer online first-person shooter that's controversial in both the real and gamers world. Knowing that no man escapes the Slayer game, the gamer negotiates his avatar to do no action on what he belives is a death trap to end him. Well, the rest is as expected.

One liner: Only for hardcore video game fans.

Cast: Gerard Butler, Amber Valletta

Category : sci-fi

1 - Are you that bored to watch this movie
2 - Very average
3 - Could have been made better
4 - A must watch
5 - You must be crazy to miss this one

**½ The ministers (2009)

A New York City Homicide Detective unknowingly becomes involved with one of the men who murdered her father thirteen years with the only evidence was a pamphlet for a mysterious religious "The Ministers."

One liner: Another movie which impress you watching the trailer.

Cast: John Leguizamo, Harvey Keitel

Category : Thriller, Mystery and Suspense

1 - Are you that bored to watch this movie
2 - Very average
3 - Could have been made better
4 - A must watch
5 - You must be crazy to miss this one

**½ The invention of lying (2009)

Everyone in the world tells the truth except for one who discovers the act of lying, milks it to become the world's most phenomenal performer.

One liner: Gervais Oscar had more laughs.

Cast: Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner

Category : Comedy

1 - Are you that bored to watch this movie
2 - Very average
3 - Could have been made better
4 - A must watch
5 - You must be crazy to miss this one

* * * The Great Buck Howard (2008)

A teenager(Troy) dropped out of law school is pondering his next move who has an interest in working in the entertainment business. He gets an oppurtunity to work as a personal assistant for a celebrity performer. He meets the glorified Buck Howard (John Malkovich), a once-famous mentalist who appeared on The Tonight Show 61 times during Johnny Carson's reign as host. However, Howard hasn't been doing much lately, who grooms himself for a comeback. Troy is fascinated with Howard's creaky but still effective act, his boss has enough personal quirks and absurd demands to give anyone second thoughts about working with him for long.

One liner: Sarcastic laughs.

Cast: John Malkovich, Colin Hanks.

Category : Drama, Comedy

1 - Are you that bored to watch this movie
2 - Very average
3 - Could have been made better
4 - A must watch
5 - You must be crazy to miss this one

* * * ½ Ayirathil oruvan (2009) - Tamil

Thanks to Dinamalar, thatstamil, Indiaglitz and behindwoods to make me understand the second half of the movie (Ofcourse each one had their vision of the story). A scene can be explained without dialogues (pesum padam), with music (kathalukku mariyathai, sethu) but the second half of the movie is very difficult to understand without dialogues and horibble music. As much I critize, the attempt to make such a fantasy movie should be well appreciated.

Selva, one of my favorite director failed to express what he had in his mind to the script and finally to the scene that everyone can understand.

Parthiban role didn't stand-up to the hype. Karthi, Andrea has been equally wasted. Reema sen has done the role sensibly. Most of the scenes didn't make any sense to the flow of the movie. CGI fails to impress. I wouldn't agree to simply say it was done best with what we have when a nation is known for technical expertise.

One liner: Hard to digest.

Cast: Karthi, Reema sen, Parthiban.

Category : Drama, Mystery and Suspense

1 - Are you that bored to watch this movie
2 - Very average
3 - Could have been made better
4 - A must watch
5 - You must be crazy to miss this one

* * ½ Afterwards (2008)

An attorney haunted by his past as the survivor of a near-death experience and a witness of his own baby's death is faced by the mysterious doctor who has a vision to inform someone is about to die. When the doctor meets him, he doesn't believe until the strange event make him believe and the mystry saga continues to prepare himself to be a victim.

One liner: Very predictable.

Cast: John Malkovich, Evangeline Lilly

Category : Mystery and Suspense

1 - Are you that bored to watch this movie
2 - Very average
3 - Could have been made better
4 - A must watch
5 - You must be crazy to miss this one

* * ½Adthey neeram athey Idam (2009) - Tamil

An upperclass attempt of Devadathayai kanden which went awfully wrong on the seond half of the movie. A theme that could have made better failed to make a mark due to the lack of acting and screenplay.

One liner: Director not knowing how to end the movie.

Cast: Jai and Vijayalakshmi

Category : Drama

1 - Are you that bored to watch this movie
2 - Very average
3 - Could have been made better
4 - A must watch
5 - You must be crazy to miss this one

* * * Sultanes del Sur (2007) - Mexican 01/16/10

Gang of thieves steal 12 million from a Mexican bank and plot to launder the money in Argentina. When the job goes awry, the thieves work to root out the traitor in their midst. Getting the money was the easy part; the real challenge is living long enough to spend it.

One liner: Average movie except for the end plot

Cast: Ana de la Reguera, Jordi Mollà

Category : Mystery and Suspense

1 - Are you that bored to watch this movie
2 - Very average
3 - Could have been made better
4 - A must watch
5 - You must be crazy to miss this one

* * * * The Hurt Locker (2008) 01/15/10

Hurt locker is the story of a team that tactfully navigates the streets of Iraq to dispose the constant threat of death from bombs and sharp-shooting snipers. The Army is working to make the city a safer place for Americans and Iraqis, so when dismantling explosive, the crew is always on their game. But protecting the public isn't easy when there's no room for error, and every second spent dismantling a bomb is another second spent flirting with death. Almost for a chance of powerful documentary that it could have become, the screenplay carefully navigates not to have such a feeling and makes little sacrifice to be made a movie.

One liner: Not the typical war movie but never to miss.

Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie

Category : Drama

1 - Are you that bored to watch this movie
2 - Very average
3 - Could have been made better
4 - A must watch
5 - You must be crazy to miss this one