Shivaay (Movie Rating:5.5/10)

Shivaay (Movie Rating:5.5/10)

Electric until interval with a steamy Icemance (Ice Romance) with the Bulgarian belle, Erika Kaar. Ajay Devgn exudes charm for the major part of the movie. Locales in the Himalayas and the avalanche shots are breathtaking... the suspended tent amidst blue ice and lovemaking are tasteful

Erika Kaar of course cant act...
...thats not required of her in her contract

Thats where the problem begins...Ajay Devgn looses his tight knit plot and meanders into too much of every scene. its stretched to the end and you walk out with that whooping headache.

Bulgaria is shown to be a prostitutes nightmare with organ trafficking et al... The herione, Sayesha Saigal  has a few good shots, but the editing seems messed up during her song sequence. The dumb Abigail (Child artist) has no role except to yell 'mmmm'.

132 minutes of which the first 65 minutes are on the ball; the last 67 minutes are headache with a stretch beyond Young's modulus. Go if you must...take a break somewhere to retain your pizzazz

Jack Reacher (Movie Rating:7.0/10)

Jack Reacher (Movie Rating:7.0/10)

Screens burns with the pace at Mach 25...Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher is nonchalant, suave, super-fit and eye candy for them ladies... Lead lady Cobie Smulders does a Smoulder with her Uniform, high cheekbones and lissome limbs. High octane action, tight script, dazzling stunts and you have a boiling pot...

However, its the Father -Daughter chemistry played out with Tom and Danika Yarosh that steals the show. Danika plays a 'taciturn-in-the-beginning' girl role with aplomb; The End scene chemistry leaves you misty eyed and a walk out of theatre with a glow. 

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Drop your gym-zumba routine for a day and enjoy this packed -with-action tryst set mostly in Washington (and sniff the travails of the US Army deployed in AfPak Region).

The Accountant (Movie Rating: 5.5/10)

The Accountant (Movie Rating:5.5/10)

Can math be dangerous?  Very. Ben Affleck, a rather UnChartered Accountant seems nonchalant about knocking cash flows as bodies with elan... He's shown morbid, intolerant of people, not inviegled into casual conversation and absolutely intrepid of bad boys... 

Plot moves slow-fast-slow-fast...  Some bits are not well explained leaving you gritting...it's the unfolding of math over matter over guts (intestines) that holds your attention... And that Renoir...ooh lala.. 

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Not light hearted fun.. Serious killer chase hard to digest staccato rhythm pileup movie for not the Bollywood types 

Inferno (Movie Rating:6.0/10)

Inferno (Movie Rating:6.0/10)

Good, not great.... maybe because the detailing is less. Inferno is there, but Dante and his nine rings of hell are missing. The description of sins and the punishment is just not there. 

Otherwise it's a tight chase with time and Tom does Langdon well. Felicity is tad wrinkled, yet seduct-intelligent and holds your eye, mesmeric. 

Irfaan seems out of place and his diction falters. Not impressed. The final chapter has a change from the book...

The interesting parts are the secret routes, the labyrinthine Firenze... 

Pity the coverage of masks was short shrift...would've loved to see the Colombina, Bauta, Volto Interno...

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A good Dan Brown adaptation, not a great one. 

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Movie Rating:6.75/10)

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Movie Rating:6.75/10)

Fantasy extreme tessellated with Irish dialect, French lead Eva Green (Vesper, Casino Royale ; Artemisia, 300) in her stylish bird-human form. 

Graphics - Surreal and screenplay extraordinare. The chemistry played out between our Protagonist and the amaranthine Ella Purnell is pure magic. How the hero falls in love with one older than his grandfather (not aged though with a magical time loop)... and she equally enamored. 

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Demons, powers, time-warp, un-sunk ships and the uncanny future - past... 

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You like fantasy movies, go watch this treatise