The Taking of Pelham 123 (Film Review)

English (A)
Cast: John Travolta, Denzel Washington, John Turturro, James Gandolfini
Director: Tony Scott

Ex-con Ryder and his men after hijacking a train put up a $10 million ransom. It would have been a simple case of robbery but when Ryder talks to metro rail dispatcher Walter Garber’s (Washington), an intense hostage drama begins.

Ryder is shrewd and yet found his weakness in Walter, a poorly paid civil servant, who has been demoted to the dispatch desk after being charged for taking bribes. Walter is drawn into Ryder’s gameplan and the incident provides him a perfect chance to redeem himself but will he take it?

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Race to Witch Mountain (Film Review)

English (U/A)
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, Alexander Ludwig, Carla Gugino
Director: Andy Fickman

Walt Disney’s latest sci-fi flick is a film on environment despite the planet under threat being an alien home somewhe re in the outer space. Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson plays Jack Bruno, a Las Vegas taxi driver, who one day has to drive teen siblings Sara (Robb) and Seth (Ludwig) to a strange destination. When Bruno realises that the two had come from outer space on an ecological mission to save their dying planet, it’s already too late for him to turn his back on them...
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GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra

English (U/A)
Cast: Channing Tatum, Dennis Quaid, Sienna Miller, Rachel Nichols , Director: Stephen Sommers

The hastily constructed plot of GI Joe: Rise of Cobra is set somewhere in the near future wherein elite members of the ‘GI Joe’ team have to take on a tech-savvy weapons dealer out to destroy the world, region by region, with his nano-weapon.

Duke (Tatum) is a new recruit leading the team to retrieve the stolen weapons. However, the story gets murkier when he realises that his ex-fiancee Baroness (Sienna Miller) is on the other side of the law. The film tries hard to highlight and relate the two through disjointed flashbacks and occasional encounters. However, all efforts to create a chemistry between them fails miserably.

Miller can hardly build up the requisite emotions...

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Public Enemies

English(A)
Cast: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard
Director: Michael Mann

The Great Depression of the 1930s provides an excellent opportunity for gangsters and outlaws to strike at banks who were blamed for the meltdown. This film traces the rise and fall of charismatic bank robber John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) who was considered a modern day Robin Hood by many.

After his release from jail John unleashed a 14-month crime wave in Chicago and to contain him an equally popular FBI man Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) was asked to head the operation to track down the most wanted man who ‘makes the justice system a mockery’.
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17 Again

English (U/A)
Cast: Leslie Mann, Zac Efron, Matthew Perry
Director: Burr Steers

Mike (Matthew Perry) is in his mid-30s with tons of problems. With no promotions in his career, strained marriage and losing touch with his children he wonders if he can get back to his college days and turn his life around again.

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