The Wolverine ( 2013 ) - Hollywood made Japanese Version of Wolverine

This movie has no relation to any of its predecessor and feels very new as if this is the Origin. James Mangold not sure his obsession over Japanese soil but this movie is totally made out from this Land of rising Red Sun. Storyline in short is " Past help,Present betrayal" . First time ever , we see Logan (a) Wolverine at receiving end while he is beaten as hell throughout the movie . He is weak, pain , prone for attacks, Bleeds . mentally ill and his self healing tendency is shaken a bit but still he leads the movie forward , emerges as that man in steel as we always seen him before. Though the plot somewhat relates to his self healing property while someone trying to steal his powers to become immortal.

This is the first time ever we knew that wolverine powers can be transfused and passed on , If this was known i am sure many would have tried it long back on previous episodes but was something new. The script was made confusing so much and actually it was not needed at all as at one point it will make us feel like who is trying to kill whom. Yukio - Ms.bodyguard of Wolverine , thats how she calls herself has no real need in this film and was induced for no purpose , still she remains there with wolverine till the end as a supporting role justifying herself helping wolverine at every turn and rest all cast was just placed here & there as Sudoku. We also tend to see Viper, samurai's , Silver samurai characters in this film making it a bit crisp but not totally appetizing. Its just our Wolverine who is the only eye catcher in this movie and be it action scenes while saving Mariko in funeral , or saving her grandfather from a nuclear attack at Nagasaki . Bar fight for killing a bear or the final fight with Silver samurai are just fascinating and stunning. Not many scenes were made in 3D and i dont see a real purpose of it in this movie , feels a 2D version would be much better to look for. This is a pure solo performance of Wolverine in this movie and if you are one who is Mad fan of Wolverine can sure have a virtual treat. Rest for other normal viewers this will be just another average flick with a bit draggy screenplay in middle. Not bad, sure watchable once for Hugh Jackmans performance and dedication , hard work he put on for this film. If you want to visit Japan via a movie , Wolverine will be a easy ticket. 

" Mariyaan - Long running Saga . Complete OverDose , At your own risk "

First day and it was really a good crowd , no wonder they came here to see their Pudhupettai and polladavan Dhanush on screen. Being a Dhanush fan , i was so excited with the whistles and claps everywhere at the first glimpse of our hero as a rude boy fisherman. I should admit , he looked just cool in this movie and perfectly stylish. Movie starts at Sudan Africa and it was really interesting the way the story was narrated.Location choices made were really stunning and hats of the cinematography , really it made a difference with the absolute true BGM from ARR at first half. Be it the natural greenery near sea shore or be it the blue waters or the beach sand it was wonderful all the way adding to it with dhanush mass look , our expectation sky rockets.Parvathy menon as Panimalar 'a' Pani in this movie comes in as a pair for dhanush and she is a real wonder beauty and was mesmerizing all the way. She was so cool and she did pure justice to her role given.Movie starts with Sonapariya Song and it was good , dhanush dance and his onscreen performance was really awesome. He is really a natural born actor and just does his job as a charm. But not to miss though sonapariya song was good suddenly there is a line " sikki sikki ah ah , maththi sikkikicha , nenji vikki kicha , machan vacha micham " which parvathy would sing and we feel as if what the heck happened , a western hip hop style suddenly induced in middle of a beautiful song surrounding a fisherman area and then i realized its okay because its ARR and its his trademark to induce this kind of unwanted beats in middle of good songs and what ever he does becomes a art...crap..!!!







There are so many good scenes like This dialogue " Yenna Gali groundnu sonna , adhu thaan ippo patta pottutiye " & " Chruch laa seruppu theikira vela vechikadha " it was cool to watch it when dhanush says it or the initial fight or say only good fight in the movie when he beats the guy who compells to marry Mani by coming to her house , sure the scene along with the stunning bgm gives you definite goosebumps and his action was real kick-ass one with that mass Cigar look ..!! With jagan and Appu Kutti adding some fun comedy quotient to the movie , first half sails somehow but it was not entirely a fun movie or a action movie at all. Nice romantic scenes and with nice visuals n BGM First half movies at a steady and slow pace as if 2 hours went in already for the intermission. By the time we were at intermission we felt like we were expecting the climax and end credits , but only then we realized that it was just 70-80 min of movie over so far.But all said , i never expected that we are in middle of a SAW game and that this is going to be a life or death choice.



 

The great and much awaited second off started ,apart from some good scenes like dhanush acting in desert serving lunch for his friend jagan virtually or the dialogues like thambi ipppovey yenna konnudhu or when he calls Pani and asks for money were cool but it just went on and on and on ...oooooof Songs after songs after songs..they get the viewers already to a drowsy coma state. The desert scene and escape scene though the visuals were okay n good , it was like going on for generations and the BGM was already a overdose. Nenjey elu nenjey elu song was placed at right place and we are already in a worst state praying to god for the song to get over , then dhanush sees mani as she says vaa mariya vaa....then again nenje elu starts and half of the crowds already Elundirichitanga.....!!! Then after the great funny events like a sudan terrorist finding dhanush walking through the desert bare foot was a big fun and then a sea at middle of sudan was a medical miracle , i dont want to go find it in a map to validate it because we are already tired by the length of second half. Then somehow mariyan reaches home escaping from those terrorist and suddenly one more song starts and 90% theatre is empty already. While someone was getting out of theater spilled few drops of water from their can which brought me out of the coma state and i just immediatly checked my watch to see if it was already 6am early morning so i can order some breakfast because i came to theater at 10pm night. But to my shock , it was just around 1am and i didnt not resist myself anymore to sit inside that theater playing the saw game. As my opinion , BGMs shouldn't suppress or under-shadow the script or the work of director and other cast. BGM & songs was okay and acceptable to one limit but when it goes beyond the accepted point , sure it sickens our brains out . Felt as if this was tailor made for ARR and seems he is a hero but not dhanush. I just couldn't remember when was ARRs last movie which ran well at theaters. I am sure many other movies faced the same slow death as this...!! I am sure ARR is a legend , a great musician or a Oscar winner blah blah blah but he needs to learn to step down at times so the other things in the movie gets highlighted. No wonder why this movie songs was never a hit except one or two which did well at average . As a Fan , As a consumer who spent 120 Rupees this movie was never worth it and total waste. Though i just cant miss to say that Dhanush performance along with parvathy was real good along with good cinematography. But rest all are way beyond the consumption level. I can see many would say this movie is a saga , a poetic one , etc..etc..but the fact is its just a rubber-band stretched beyond its limit. Bharath Bala sucks big time and ARR best work did the opposite with too much of overdose.Mariyaan best fit to be telecasted in Sun TV or Vijay TV as a TV Series so they have whole lot of time to put 100 songs or more as they live

One's Views on a film doesnt change it all because every eye and heart feels different. So it would not be surprising if someone else liked this long saga of Haridas movie runinng for hours all together. Movie is entertainment , a art to attract audience , and so if it fails to entertain you then sure it failed as a whole no matter what we say ..Just because there are so many out there saying this is a best movie they have watched , it still doesnt change a thing on what viewers personally gone through while watching.

This review is just my opinion and i am not against anyone who say they liked it or say this is the masterpiece the industry ever seen or say ARRs best dream work then VTV or a national award winning one then let that be it . This is purely my view as a dejected fan who wasted his 120 Rupees which he could have spend on some other good movies. My Rating : 2.5/5 and i am sure you know what would be the rating if it wasnt for Dhanush. Dhanush still rocks and i really liked his acting and he is the only guardian angel for bharathbala now.

Guillermo del Toro's "Pacifim Rim" First Look :-

We mostly knew what the story would be about with so many teasers , posters so far. Yes its a movie based on Fight between Mankind vs alien monsters called Kaiju. To fight these monsters all world leaders unite to form a Jaeger program which in-turn creates Huge Robots which can fight these monsters and protect humanity. Rest is same as such in any other alien vs robot movies and mankind wins. This kaiju is differentiated based on Size and are called as Category 2,3,4,5 etc...Ther were total of 32 Jaeger and over a period of time that got reduced to four . So the Program Jaegar was called off by all countries but the captain n soldier Idris elba decides to fight back with just the remaining four jaegars forms the rest.

Pros :-
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>> Charlie Hunnam as Raliegh Pilot of Mac3 Robot is only one who carries movie in a intresting way.
>> Sure this movie would take you back 20 years TV Series Gaint robot days and you would somehow start to enjoy the movie as some small kid in theater.
>> Robots Robots and robots all the way. Computer graphics is at its best. Cool work and sure more hard work went into this bringing this imaginary robot characters live on screen . Very nice.
>> First 10 min of the movie is just awesome and especially the Robot assembly and preparation for a fight was stunning
>> BGM i must say is so cool and wonderful . Perfectly matches to the encounter scene between Jaeger and kaiju
>> Opening scene and the might by Mac3 & category 4 kaju was cool and meticulously done
>> The Deployment of Jaegar for fight through helicopters was cool

Cons :-
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>> Yes we went in with so much expectation , but all we see is the same we seen in all other movies.
>> Yes director was successful taking us back to childhood , so should be the expectation. , we would have expected more weapons out of those robots but actually there is nothing with some boring plasma gun , some air gun and a sword really there is nothing else.
>> Kaiju is nothing but a big size bull. that is just a animal like godzilla , nothing new in it or nothing different
>> First half was like robo vs godzilla a movie released in 90's and the climax was copied from Independence day. Only difference in that movie it happens in space and in this PR it happens under sea.
>> Even the speech from Idris elba at climax before going to the fight doesn't give you that goosebumps which you get during the final president speech by Bill Pullman in independence day . Yes i get it..we just cant compare two movies but if you watch it , sure there is no way you could prevent yourself comparing like this. Its open and clear.
>> There are so many logic misses at many places and there are so many funny scenes at serious place like firing a Flair over monster during a fight scene. Though we can find some answers our-self , it didnt help the movie in any way.
>> There are hardly four fights in the entire movie and as many posters say each robot is different , in movie all robots looks similar and there is nothing much differences between them. coyote tango , cherno alpha , dublindecker , striker eureka , gypsy danger and so many but hardly any difference you would notice.Common we are still not out of Iron man saga and no wonder we expect more out of our robots.
>> So many things are packed so fast and unfortunately director had to dump to many things in a short run. Felt screenplay was super fast making things unclear at times and felt as if director was in a hury .

Overall
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We have been seeing so many related movies like this and we just cannot stop yourself comparing with the others . Or may be the reason we went in with so many expectation but when we didnt get that much , may be it leaves us disappointed a little. But keeping things aside , sure this is not a bad attempt and GDT has really done a wonderful job bringing this beautiful characters in a celluloid form . If we had enjoyed super human samurai , giant robot and many others of similar genre , sure we would enjoy this movie so much . But when you go into technical aspects or a wise adult audience , sure you would feel something missing when you completed watching the entire movie. That said i liked this move but watching second time....i doubt. Average movie worth watching if you want to bring in the child in you out. Keep your critic shoes out and you might really enjoy this . If you have kids in home , i am sure they will definitely love this movie a lot.

My Rating : 7/10

FAM Final Verdict : GDT has more monsters to fight off-screen. Hope his only trump card Jaegers would help him. Less Likely chances for the sequel