CANDID REVIEW STREET : Movie Review - JOHN WICK

CANDID REVIEW STREET: Movie Review

JOHN WICK

Violent, Stylish, Old Fashioned Killing- All in a pacy Action Flick!

RATINGS: 3.5/5 Stars

Keenu Reaves the true action hero is back with a bang. Even though this movie can easily be described as Mindless Action Flick, however the sheer brilliance Keenu puts in his character makes the movie a good one to watch.

The Ex hitman, JOHN WICK is back to take revenge from someone who has taken it all from him. The movie's story is just too simple so, i wont go there and would love that you go and watch this one!

However, in all this madness of killing there's a method to make this one a little different from a lot of Action Movies like this one.

The Darkness in the character absolutely comes out as JOHN WICK goes out to seek his revenge. The action seems so very real and the fearless assassin will blow your mind.
The Characters of the movie, The Mafia Don- Played by Michael Nyqvist pulls of a real good show too!

Keenu as John Wick is brilliant with his small one liners and his style while his guns are doing all the talking.

Hollywood hardly creates somethings which is GOOD but yet there is no Story in there, this one serves just right to all your action senses of brain!

Go for this!

3.5 Stars from My Side!

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CANDID REVIEW STREET: Movie Review: Finding Fanny

Movie Review: Finding Fanny (If Possible - Watch in English)
3.5 /5 Stars

Its Not an ART Movie- Its a Fun Movie

This movie is in a different league. It's not a art movie made on a subject which is so deep that 2 hours of the movie isn't too much to reach to the depth of it.

This movie is not like whisky its more like lemon juice.

5 Human beings, a dead cat and A old car

First things first- Amazing group of actors and everyone will surprise you with their natural acting skills. Deepika Padukone has not just looked beautiful, but has been great in acting too. Arjun Kapoor hasnt really impressed in any of his movies, to me, but this one thankfully he has matched everyone on screen.Naseeruddin Shah Dimple Kapadia Pankaj Kapoor are superb too.

The direction is as good as it gets as when there are just 5 characters and the story is of 3 days without action and songs, direction has to be good. Homi Adajania has really done a great job.
The story is about Naseeruddin shah- Fredie who posted a love letter to his beloved 46 years ago and never got a replied. He never married anyone as he truly deeply loved Fanny.

One day- He got the letter back which he wrote. It implied, Fanny never got the letter. Deepika - Angie, was a friend if this postman and have never felt love. As his husband died on the same day of reception.

Angie decided that she will find Fanny for Fredie so that he can tell her how much he loved her. For this, she takes Help of Ajun kapoor - Savio. Savio was also her love interest before the marriage and has just returned to village.

Pankaj Kapoor, Don Pedro is an artist who makes paintings of women. He is an extreme pervert and has lost his heart to the curves of Angie's mother in law played by Dimple Kapadia.

The movie is so light that even with a very light appeal it takes the audience on the road trip. Even though the characters are tangled in each other's life but there is so much space in between for the chemistry of any two characters.

The movie will not hold you to the seat and will grip your mind, but the movie slowly holds your hand and walk, till the end. The movie has a calm message-
Take a Step towards love, Life will find love for you!

The movie might be in the same category of Ishqiya and will surely make you smile!

Go for it.
3.5 Stars from My Side.

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Candid Review Street: Movie Reviews- A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES

MOVIE REVIEW: A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES
Rating: 2.75/5 Stars

19th Sept, 2014

Liam Neeson is Good. Movie is Good- But haven't we seen the same before- in Taken Taken 2 ?

It's based on a bestselling Novel and Neeson played an EX NYPD cop who is now a private detective. He taken on the Heroine Drugs trafficking gang this time.

The movie seemed predictive with average direction but you have to handover to this guy- LIAM, no matter howsoever average the script or screenplay is, he still makes the scene work.

See if you have become a fan of NEESON's New Found Action adventure roles in past few Years. His acting will not disappoint you; neither his action!

But Movie doesnt have a lot to remember it! It seemed like its Taken 3, without that much of FUN element!

Going with 2.75 Stars. Average Entertainment but still a good one time watch Action Thriller.

By the Way you may just forget that LIAM is 62 Years old now, and still looks so fit!

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CANDID REVIEW STREET- Movie Reviews - THE MAZE RUNNER

MOVIE REVIEW: The Maze Runner

Rating: 3.75/5

19th Sept, 2014

INTELLIGENT- REFRESHING -SOLID PERFORMANCES

There's something about these movies of getting trapped, I kind of like it. Started with Resident Evil- Trapped in Umbrella Foundation; Cave- Trapped Below Earth and Hunger Games.

This one- The Maze Runner Comes as a pleasant surprise this week. After some really bad movies- 22 Jump Street , The Giver - 2014 , The Prince and Expendables, this movie is much better.

The thrill is out as we know the plot. No-one remembers who they are and last 3 years each month 1 guy comes in the MAZE. The maze is a Trap and no-one can leave the Maze. One who gets trapped in maze, can never come out. So maze is the home now.

Thomas was the second last one to come, and things start to change. The Maze has thrill drama action and a super cruncher for all young adults. And probably once they see it, they will have a lot to talk about in colleges, like I did after I saw Resident Evil.

Well, The trailer shows a lot but the movie literally grows in stature in 120 minutes, even thought the first 20 25 minutes are slow but that's Ok as the adaptation of Novels are like that.

Post Resident evil, this looks like a really interesting sci fi thriller. The movie has some really power performance. The lead- Dylan O'Brien is superb and has looked like a much better actor what Zac Efronever looked to me.

The movie end keeps it open for the sequence.

The Movie Has a few loopholes, like the first 20 minutes, the slowness of the plot in between and some abrupt end sequence.

But still a very good Watch.
Going with More than 3.5 Star, may be 3.75.
Must watch in THEATRE only.

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CANDID REVIEW STREET : Movie Review - KHOOBSURAT (2014)

MOVIE REVIEW: KHOOBSURAT

Date: 20th Sept, 2014

Rating : 3.5/5 Stars (I can't Believe It)

Really???
For the Records- I hate Sonam Kapoor's Acting. Her supermodel styling sense is the only reason why she is still in Bollywood Columns in Newspapers and her Father is the Reason why she still gets movies. (And not surprisingly this movie is Anil Kapoor Production too!)

But this movie is such a feel good movie which will make you smile all 2 hours 10 minutes. The movie has its flaws but you can overlook them so easily.

Its not about the Acting of Sonam Kapoor neither her chemistry with Fawad Khan which makes this movie watchable. Its actually brilliant placement of characters.
1. Sonam as even with her OVER ACTING and bad acting skills, has looked cute as the PHYSIO
2. Fawad as Prince Vikram Singh has looked nothing less than ROyal with Absolutely FLAWLESS STYLING
3. Kiron Kher is simply superb in her PUNJABI Avatar as HYPER Cool Mom as MANJU
4. Ratna Pathak as The Queen and Super Courteous Lady and Strict Mom

The script was such that not much was required from the Actors on acting part. As the Movie is absolutely in One Tone- Light Humorous Mode.

As the trailer has shown the plot already, that a Physio- MILI, Played by SONAM comes to King's palace and changes the way they live by her flair and liveliness. Prince Vikram fell for her charming and stupid ways and Mili fell for this hot hunk prince.
Kiron Kher as Monju is nothing less than Super Brilliant, and her dialogues are the best in the movie. So are the expressions of Queen.

The dilogue Delivery is strangely superb. The conversation of MILI and VIKRAM are 2 way! One they speak and the Exact opposite they think. It happens with most of us, but this is the first attempt to capture this humourous side of people's thinking.

The songs are a big let down and none of the songs are good.

But Over all, really this movie surprised me. Lovely Sweet and Funny!

Must go with friends and family.

I personally wasnt really a fan of a Pakistani actor in Indian Movies- Fawad, but he really has looked great! But really he slipped into the role beautifully. If Not him, i can only imagine VIDYUT doing this role.
Serious, non speaking and still cute in some ways.

ALL GIRLS are requested to watch this flick as they would love their Men and Boyfriends to dress like FAWAD.

3.5 Stars from my side! It's indeed a Weekend Movie!

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CANDID REVIEW STREET : Movie Review - BANG BANG

MOVIE REVIEW- BANG BANG

STUDIP- MINDLESS- STILL a GROSSER

Date: 2nd Oct '14

Rating- candidreviewstreet.com- 2 Stars/5 

This movie is even worse than Dhoom 3. One of the most Over hyped movie of the year.

The movie has three positive points and a countless flaws.

1. Seeing Hrithik Dance and His Perfect International Looks

2. Seeing Katrina moving her face left and right in close up shots

3. Exotic locations- Prague, Mauritius, Greece and London, after that I Lost Count.

And yes action sequences are good just that they are so badly put in the script that I am not sure if i can say that they are plus points.

And Then everything else is flaw. Movie's Bang Bang points which will shoot your mind:

1. Comedy villains- Javed Jafferey and Robert (Nothing as humorous as Andaz Apna Apna and Golmaal)

2. Breaking inside London prison and rescue DANNY in less than a minute

3. Hrithik taking out bullets from his waist as if he is picking a chicken piece stuck in his tooth

4. Awesomely shitty acting by Katrina and Hrithik. Katrina, just get married to Ranbir before he sees this movie and rejects the idea. You will be better off promoting Ranbir's Mumbai franchisee than acting.

Hrithik Sorry you disappointed. I am still a huge fan though.

5. And a movie's fitting end- Hrithik brought back home- by Katrina drove from Dubai to Dehradoon! To a BECHAARI MAA and BHULAKKAD BAAP and a Home which actually is NAMED GHAR, where his father does Gardening in 3 Ft Ice Covered ground.

List will go on.

The movie has literally no plot. movie started as if its DHOOM 2- Revisited and in the middle it seemed like ZIndagi Na Milegi Dobara, and in the end it went on to copy KNIGHT and DAY in the worst possible way. Tom Cruise, please dont watch this one.

Katrina, got stuck in a clash between a Super Villain and Indian Military to get back Kohinoor from Hrithik who plays a Super Thief who can travel from Europe to Asia in no time and who can dance and romance and in middle of a gun battle, crack jokes. Finally after a few Songs and some action sequence with Hrithik and Katrina travelling across globe, and killing the Main Villain.

Guys do watch this one, for GOOD LOOKS GOOD LOOKS and GOOD LOOKS.

By the way- Katrina has gained weight and whatever expression was left in her face in DHOOM 3 is gone too. For the records I still love her looks.

Movie has little to remember and a lot to laugh about after you have left theater.

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CANDID REVIEW STREET: Movie Review - HAIDER

MOVIE REVIEW- Haider The Movie 

Gripping- Dark- Powerful- Awesome Performances- A MASTERPIECE

I haven't read William Shakespeare's Hamlet . However, I can just feel why it's such a famous creation of William Shakespeare

This movie leaves you spell bound, in haste and stirred inside, if not permanently shaken. And this might just be the Best Movie of Vishal Bhardwaj till date.
Its a Movie which finally looks beyond the snow peaks and beautiful valleys of KASHMIR and talks about the people and their struggle!

A movie which starts with a search of disappeared father by Haider, a well educated lad, who fights within to see his Uncle having an affair with his Mom, who is a half widow now. And the end so horrific which will ask you to close your eyes and want the movie to get over!

The movie will ask questions, and you would conveniently wish to believe that NO this is not what must be happening in Kashmir. But the drama did reveal a lot of Kashmir with a strange straight forwardness without any political correctness. This movie touch upon Youth of Kashmir- Not knowing where to Go, Politics, lust of power and an unusual Love which is at the centre of the whole plot.

The power packed performance and the directional abilities are visible almost in every scene, where the extra slow script needed the support big time.

The actors: Shahid Kapoor is reborn with this movie after the Super Sad Movies- R…Rajkumar and Phata Poster Nikhla Hero. This movie is literally made for him. After Kaminey, he has acted with all his grit in this movie. His talent graphs are like too many lows together and Peaks are just too high at times with performances in Jab We Met Kaminey and now HAIDER.

Every single actor has impressed in this Movie and with their effortless presence, they own their roles. I am not able to think if not Kay Kay Menonor Tabu who else could have done their roles. Irfan Khan is amazing with his impactful short role onscreen and his captivating voice.

Shraddha Kapoor has disappointed with her over the top acting. She has tried acting with a little more effort, and wide eyed approach. Though she has looked fair and fits in the role with a sad face and a muslim get up. Her accent too isn't as Kashmiri as she looks.

At last, the songs are strange but fits in the script superbly, and Rekha Bhardwaj's voice is a treat!

Overall, its absolutely not an entertainer- but a hard hitting story. Some of you may find it boring but at the end of the movie you wont say that the movie disappointed you.

It did not disappoint me either.

Loved this One!
Going with 3.5 Stars.
A little more could have been possible but just didn't enjoy it but got bitten by its darkness.

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CANDID REVIEW STREET : MOVIE RATINGS : EKKEES TOPON KI SALAAMI

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CANDID REVIEW STREET : RATINGS: LEFT BEHIND

MOVIE RATINGS: Left Behind 
Release Date: 11th OCT, 2014

Nicolas Cage is now doing some bad Ones As if THE GHOST RIDER Series was Not Enough!

1.5 Stars/ 5 Stars

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Candid Review Street: Movie Ratings- JIGARIYAA

MOVIE RATINGS: Jigariyaa 
Release Date: 11 Oct, '14

SWEET- SIMPLE- LOVING- ONLY for SMALL TOWN BOYS and GIRLS
A love story of AGE when there was no FB and WASSAPP!

2.5 Stars/ 5!

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CANDID REVIEW STREET : MOVIE RATINGS : Kill The Messenger

RATING- 2.5/5 Stars 
KILL THE MESSENGER- Powerful True Story of a Journalist, backed by Great Performance of Jeremy Renner 

But, just not Entertaining Enough!

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CANDID REVIEW STREET: MOVIE RATINGS : DARCULA UNTOLD

Dracula Untold - RATING

2.5 Stars / 5

GREAT ANIMATION- But Story lacks to make it a Memorable Watch!

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CANDID REVIEW STREET: MOVIE Review: HAPPY NEW YEAR

MOVIE REVIEW- Happy New Year 

Ratings- 2.5 / 5

Average- Mindless- No Story- Just a Family Entertainer

What is it with this Year- 2014.
Aamir Khan came in Double Role to Steal BANKS in Dhoom:3 The Movie
Salman Khan came as DEVIL to Steal again in Mindless- KICK
Hrithik Roshan came as SUPER AGENT kohinoor Thief in Bang Bang
and Now Shah Rukh Khan is here with a bunch of people to steal DIAMONDS for Revenge.

Well, there was nothing that we were expecting from Farah Khan movie. An extension of Om Shanti Om and a little bit of Ocean's 11 and a hint of The Italian Job, Swades, Chak-de and little mix of Dance Tadka with Super Sexy Look of Deepika Padukone and Shah Rukh's 7 or 8 packs. Here's the recipe of a successful 300 Crore Movie.

The movie by the way also has Over acting King- Abhishek Bachchan who has been given full space to over act to fit in. BomanIrani who is mindlessly a Parsi Playboy who is also a Master in Safe Opening Technique. Vivaan shah (Son of Naseeruddin Shan) is the Hacker, that too so good that he can hack anything even the World's best Hotel security in 10 seconds. Deepika wanted to act hard like a Maharashtrian Bar Dancer, however forgets in between that she is Mohini.

The Story:
Shah Rukh (Don't know what he did for 8 years) is on the way to revenge his father (Anupam Kher) from Jackie Shroff a business tycoon. He makes his team with A COMPUTER HACKER (never looked like he was hacking), Safe Opening Master, A Explosive specialist, who hardly had to make explosives in the movie, and a Bar Dancer who wanted to dance to open a school. The revenge is funny as there is a lot of Indian-ness in the Movie, (which by the way i liked). Finally Mohini who teaches them Dance to get into a World Dance competition, in Dubai to Help them get to the safe! And in 6 months, a bunch of guys become WORLD CHAMPS in DANCE and came back as Winners as OLYMPICS.

Movie feels like its being acted. Deepika is Good in parts and Shahrukh is Ok! The movie has its moments, Dance and Songs and Indianness will make you smile. Even the repeated dialogs of previous SRK movies are funny, just that it felt disappointing as the movie could have been made in so much more real with the same 180 minutes.

Movie has little to be remembered for anytime next year but is certainly better than BANG BANG and DHOOM 3.

Going with 2 stars/ 5 personally. but because families will love this flick so, 2.5 Stars.

P.S. : SRK's 8 packs are amazing by the way

CAUTION: Anyone who feels that WORLD's Best Safe can be Opened in 3 Minutes, How- Please Contact FARAH Khan. And How They Won the BEST DANCE Competition In the WORLD is - JAZZBAA 

ADS in the MOVIE: Renault Duster, Nokia, Zee Tv, Dubai Tourism, PNB Metlife

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CANDID REVIEW STREET : MOVIE REVIEW - SHAUKEEN

MOVIE RATINGS- SHAUKEEN

Waste of TIME!! Not Worthy of a REVIEW- One View was too Much!

What a Waste. Neither Akshay's songs in the flick nor a few raunchy sequences by Lisa Hayden could not save this over ambitious cum stupid movie of fantasies of 3 old man.

Stay Home, Avoid Being Foolish!


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CANDID REVIEW STREET : MOVIE REVIEW - INTERSTELLAR

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Simply Out of the World! Quite literally as the movie is about out of the world, the way this movie is made is – Just Wow!

Off course like Inception, Christopher Nolan has made sure, that this movie needs a serious PHYSICS Manual too. And in case you think that INCEPTION is the most complicated movie ever made, check out this one.

The movie brings to you the thoughts which we haven’t even dreamt off in wildest of our dreams, like:
- Life on other planet
- How is it to travel to other galaxies
- How about 1 hour on that planet = 7 years on earth

The movie direction is thrilling, edge of the seat excitement and thought crunching. As your mind wonders in disbelief, it puts your lips to smile feeling what if all this is possible, someday. 

Unlike the Star Trek and Star Wars, and all other space movies made, (Barring Gravity) this is undoubtedly the best Sci Fi I have seen in long long time; Off course leaves behind Gravity in terms of creativity and imagination by a long margin. 

I am no scientist, but thankfully way back in college I was interested in astro-physics. I guess that helped a little bit more to understand what movie is all about.
The movie challenges a lot of concept, and puts forth a few.
- There are galaxies and there are ways to reach those Galaxies 
- Time and Gravity are no more constants
- Time travel
- Theory of Relativity
- Black Hole can be gentle

I know all this sound complicated but be prepared as the movie throws all this to you.

Interstellar is based on a NASA pilot, Engineer turned Farmer – Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), along with Anna Hathaway, who leave the Earth to find out is there another Galaxy where People on Earth can settle? The big question leads the team to travel in space between stars and to a planet. The movie showcases the different factors of other world which may be theoretical but looks amazingly true on screen. In midst of everything there is a strong daughter-father relationship at the core of the story, which keeps the movie ticking along

What’s Not Exceptional?

The first half of the movie is exceptionally slow and will bother you a bit! Also the background music of the movie isn’t great. Anna Hathaway hasn’t really impressed so much. May be she is too good looking to act that well on a space mission. And the fact that how the movie ends and how the Lead Character Survives, is really a big question mark? But Everything else is Beyond Imagination and Expectation.

Going with 4 Stars! 

Could have been a 4.5 star movie, but just can’t put this movie alongside The Dark Knight and Inception from the same Director. But this is CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’s BEST Movie EVER!!! Even Better than the IMAGINATIONS of AVATAR!


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MOVIE REVIEW - NIGHTCRAWLER

MOVIE REVIEW- Nightcrawler Movie 

CRUEL, UNETHICAL but Strangely MAGNETIC!

Jake Gyllenhaal weaves a magic around your mind with is Performance as LOU, and you cant get out of it, hours after the movie has finished.

Lou a budding and aspiring Crime journalist, sells the footage of fresh crime scenes to a local News Channel. The events turn dramatically when Lou actually reached a spot of crime before the police has shown up.

The Passionate performance of JAKE, remind you of Heath Ledger as JOKER. This tremendously talented actor as modified his look like a Human, who have ethics for his work but is extremely unethical to society.

For this role, Jake has turned PALE, Thin and strangely Weird to portray perfectly what a HUMAN Hyena may look like. One who knows just one thing- HUNGER!

The Director - Dan Gilroy (from Real Steel) has done justice to a super thrilling story and has asked society a strange question- How much reporting is Enough!
Just seeing and not doing anything is OK?

A Must Watch for the sheer performances in the FLICK!!!

Going with 3.5 Stars out of 5.

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