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Hollywood Movie Motorway Review and Rating (3/5)

RATING: 3/5

Filmed in 2009 but undergone several changes including rewrites, reshoots and numerous re-edits, Soi Cheang's much-anticipated follow-up to his critically-acclaimed ACCIDENT (2009), has unexpectedly taking almost three years to complete the entire production. Now that the movie, MOTORWAY, has finally hits the theaters -- is it worth all the wait? For genre fans, this one delivers enough revved-up excitement especially for those who likes car chase. But for others who expect a typically great Milkyway production in the vein of Johnnie To's filmmaking standard will be slightly disappointed here.

The story revolves around two-member team of Hong Kong's "Invisible Squad", Cheung (Shawn Yue) and Lo (Anthony Wong), both cops who disguised as regular drivers until they track down any traffic offenses and pull the person over. At the beginning of the movie, Cheung abandons his partner Lo on the road to chase over the fleeing offender. As a result of his reckless action, both Cheung and Lo are summoned to radar gun duty by their superior (Gordon Lam). During a somewhat routine job, Cheung manages to pin down a driver by the name of Jiang (Guo Xiaodong) who has gone beyond the speed limit. In an ensuing chase, he manages to stop him and arrests him.

Apparently Jiang has a plan of his own. Once he is brought back to the police station, he takes his chance to help his partner-in-crime, Huang Zhong (Li Haitao) escape from the prison. Nevertheless, Jiang's superior driving skill and smart getaway plan manages to outwit the police and especially Cheung, who fails to capture both of them.

But of course, Cheung refuses to give up and discovers that Jiang knows a lot about unique driving skills. He tries to master some of his driving skills so he will have his chance to apprehend him one day. At the same time, this is where Lo, who has so far only cares about his retirement plan, starts to reveal his old self and teaches Cheung a few things about driving skills.

Joey O'Bryan, Szeto Kam-Yuen and Francis Fung's screenplay is pretty straightforward and commercial at best. Which means this movie is more on style and little on substance. Soi Cheang's direction, in the meantime, is adequate if nothing particularly special. It's quite a shame that he's hardly top himself over his much superior ACCIDENT in term of overall direction and storytelling method.

But whereas the movie feels lackluster for a Milkyway production, it does benefits from some of the above-average cast. Shawn Yue is perfectly typecast as a reckless rookie cop who is really at ease when comes to intense role. Guo Xiadong is cool and charismatic enough as the cocky getaway driver, while Anthony Wong steals the show as a retiring veteran cop who is actually more than meets the eye. At first, he is introduced as a lazy cop who just wants to pass the time and waits for retirement. But he's gradually reveals his true self when he is forced to get back into the game for one last redemption of making things right. His two particular memorable scenes are the one involved his teaching over Cheung on how to control the technique of driving, and another one involved his pursuit over Jiang along the curvy roads. Unfortunately, the female cast are neglected to thankless roles -- Barbie Hsu and Michelle Ye are more like window displays, while Josie Ho's minor portrayal as senior inspector is nothing more than a barking-order caricature.

The biggest saving grace of all is its exhilarating car chase scenes. Accompanied with DRIVE-like electronic score by Alex Gopher and Xavier Jamaux, the chase scenes are also well-choreographed by Chin Kar-Lok. Unlike most car chase movies that relies heavily on CGI, the action here feels more authentic because it emphasizes more on driving skills with real stunts. Plus, you've got to admire Chin Kar-Lok's superb job on crafting most of the car chase scenes at night shot in guerrilla style without permit.

As for the ending, the movie is rather anticlimactic especially the way how the bad guys are being dealt with. Though it doesn't have the cool precision of DRIVE (2011) and the stylistic elegance of Johnnie To's direction, MOTORWAY remains a slick and reasonably entertaining genre effort.

Alan Mak's The Silent War Movie Posters

Writer-directors Alan Mak and Felix Chong's highly-anticipated new movie, THE SILENT WAR (formerly known as WINDSEEKER) starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Zhou Xun which centers on a blind man (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) who is recruited by the Chinese authorities in the 1950s to help them in a classified mission thanks to his uniquely strong sense of hearing. Anyway, here's the poster from the upcoming movie slated to hit theaters on August.

'The Amazing Spider-Man' lit up US and Canadian box offices on its first day in movie theaters, catching $35 million in its sticky web and breaking a record for a Tuesday opening, distributor Sony Pictures Entertainment said on Wednesday.

Sony Pictures said the 3D movie's box office total, which included $4 million from giant Imax theater screens, broke the previous record of $27.8 million for a Tuesday debut held by the first 'Transformers' film that opened on July 3, 2007.

The studio projects domestic ticket sales of $110 million to $120 million from Tuesday through Sunday, which encompasses Wednesday's Independence Day holiday in the United States.

But some box office watchers see totals of $125 million or more. After its 2007, opening 'Transformers' went on to grab over $146 million in its first six days in domestic theaters, according to Paul Dergarabedian of Hollywood.com Box Office.

Sony spent about $215 million to produce the highly-anticipated film, plus tens of millions more on marketing.

'The Amazing Spider-Man' reboots the modern film series that began with 2002's "Spider-Man" and over three movies netted around $2.5 billion at global box offices for its makers Marvel Studios and distributor Sony Pictures.

Sony Pictures is a division of Sony Corp and Marvel is part of The Walt Disney Co.

With housefly as its hero Eega in Telugu and Naan Ee in Tamil, is all set to hit theatres today.

Directed by the celebrated S S Rajamouli, the film will have a multilingual release, first in Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam today and about two weeks later in Hindi.

Ashta Chemma actor Nani and glam girl Samantha will play the lead roles in the film which has a liberal dose of fantasy with the hero being killed by the villain and then being reborn as a housefly. Sudeep also plays an important role in the movie.

The music of the film has been composed by M M Keeravani.

Nimirndhu Nil is the upcoming movie that stars Jayam Ravi and Amala Paul in the lead roles. The pooja of this Jayam Ravi starring Nimirndhu Nil is taking place today, on July5.

Samuthirakani is wielding the megaphone for this bilingual movie Nimirndhu Nil. This romantic-action entertainer Nimirndhu Nil has started rolling from today with the muhurtham taking place at AVM Studios in Chennai. "Nimirndhu Nil showcases Jayam Ravi as a discipline young man, who changes his attitude towards society due to certain problems faced by him.

Meghana Raj is playing second lady lead in Nimirndhu Nil that is being produced by K. S. Sreenivasan on Vasan Visual Ventures banner. Nimirndhu Nil will be simultaneously made in Telugu as well with Veppam fame Nani as the lead. GV Prakash Kumar is roped in to play the music and background for Nimirndhu Nil.

Cast: Ajay Devgn, Abhishek Bachchan, Asin, Prachi Desai, Neeraj Vora

Directed by Rohit Shetty

Rating: 2.5 *

Just after a cameo jig in the title song, Big B offers a disclaimer: he isn't a part of this film, even though his name is. And that is hint enough for the wise. But for those who don't know, Bol Bachchan (BB) jams chopsticks up the nose of Hrishikesh Mukherjee's comic classic 'Gol Maal' and digs itself six feet under with it. While the story is same in theory, being a Rohit Shetty film only adds some cars nailing somersaults, trucks attempting a ballet, baddies playing mid-air Garba after being biffed and Ajay Devgn drawing his eyebrows close enough to show that he means business.

Presenting the mightiest gunda of Ranakpur, human Google translator (Hindi to nonsensical) Prithviraj Raghuvanshi (Ajay Devgn). He comes, he punches, he delivers a line in two languages and he leaves. His opening shots and exits are in slow-mo and his lines leave you with loose motions. Lost in translation was adorable in 'Chupke Chupke'. But more than 35 years hence, poking the nose of grammar and tweaking the tits of English can hardly squeeze out a chuckle. The next best idea: replace words with similar sounding ones or extend them to make little sense and cause a lot of hilarity. So when someone is excited, Prithvi calms him, "Pest control yourself" and when he is praised, he humbly responds, "Thanks for the Complan boy." Yes, English used to be a phunny language.
I am orangy and fizzy too

Siblings, Abbas (Abhishek Bachchan) and Sania (Asin) have endured a difficult past before landing up in Ranakpur. Abbas pretends to be a Hindu and adopts the name- Abhishek Bachchan to avoid a communally volatile situation and is hired by Prithvi. Once his Muslim-self is exposed to his boss, a long and winding tale gives birth to his mooch-less step-twin brother Abbas. Like the original 'Gol Maal', he is also required to cast a mother, furnish her twin and so on. Deviations from the Amol Palekar version: here Prithvi falls for Sania as she is a photocopy of his late girlfriend. Also, Abbas fakes being gay while Abhishek is genuinely grumpy but collectively they don't add up to make one convincing actor.
How many Bachchans are needed to fix a light bulb?

While this film is packed with epic fails, here are some of the best. 1. Twice in the film, Prithvi's sister played by Prachi Desai is abducted and man-handled by Prithvi's evil brother who lives in the neighbouring village. But wouldn't Prithvi's brother be Prachi's brother too? #that awkward moment when you come to know... 2. Later in the film, Prachi throws a fit (to increase her screen presence?) and scoots to a village that can only be reached by crossing the evil brother's village. While most of the cast is clueless about her plan, the evil brother is randomly aware of the exact bus she is on. But since he isn't any wiser than the script writers of BB, he calls up Prithvi and announces his filthy plans. Obviously, epic dhishooming follows.

Want to exit in the interval? You can't!

When re-inventing a classic, the obvious benefit for any filmmaker is that the story has already been told. This allows for time and opportunity to experiment with parallel screenplays or embellish characters with fascinating traits. But director Rohit Shetty not only assumes that his audience hasn't seen the original 'Gol Maal' but also that they've been snoozing through this one. Reason: the finale has Devgn and his chamchas putting up a musical act that recaps the entire film.

Ajay Devgn tries his best to pull this one through but even his earnest efforts end up in vain. Whoever said two Bachchans are better than one had definitely not assumed even one of them would be Abhishek. AB junior is over 50 films old but the postfix after his name seems to find more meaning than to merely distinguish him from AB senior. Asin and Prachi Desai play up the high-intensity drama scenes and are mostly seen lamenting over some unfortunate event from the past. Archana Puran Singh is over-the-top and obnoxious and that is what she does best and that is exactly how you want her to be.

While the music in most Rohit Shetty films serves as the biggest promotional vehicle, here, even the title song can cause migraines to become your-grains. Action and stunt choreography subscribe to the 'Dabangg-Singham' genre of low-gravity fights and every strike results in a mid-air Moulin Rouge.

Mooch is the secret of my energy

'Mooch nahin toh kuch nahin' may seem like an understatement in this film as almost everyone, excluding Asin and Prachi (thankfully!) proudly jounce their bushy glory on their upper lips. But with a cardboard set and not enough costumes for all the extras, glueing on a mooch can be a cost-effective and efficient way to portray a village in Rajasthan. Kay bole se, Producer-sa?

According to one report, the trailer has gone viral drawing over 5 lakh hits in the first 48 hours of its release on the video sharing site.

The story of the film revolves round the life on an ordinary man named David and how he becomes Billa, an underworld don.

The trailer of the film has created huge waves for its punch dialogues and action sequences.

Southern star Ajith Kumar's much-hyped film 'Billa 2' has been directed by Chakri Toleti.

Media reports claimed that the producers will stick with the 'A' certificate given by the Censors Board.

The film's cast features former Miss India beauty pageant winner Parvathy Omanakuttan, and Brazilian beauty Bruna Abdullah.

Music composer Yuvan Shankar Raja, who is the music director of the film has made a special appearance in the role of a gangster.

Sources claimed that he film will hit the theatre on July 13.

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On June 16th Agneepath movie is telecasted in Zee Channel, the shocking news anout this movie is this is Movie which got highest TRP ratings in TV history by Crossing Satyameva Jayathe, Jhalak Diklaja and Indian Idol, befor this movie telecasting Hrithik Tweeted about this as "Never seen so much news about a movie premiering on tv before! Nervous all over again" Which Has added the extra exitement to watch this movie..

This is the poster Released Byy Zee TV