China Town Malayalam Movie Review

CHINA TOWN : (3.5)

CHINA TOWN movie preview

Director:   Rafi Mecartin
Producer:   Antony Perumbavoor
Music Director:   Jassie Gift
Lyricst: Anil Panachooran

Cast :  Mohanlal ,Jayaram  ,Dileep ,Pradeep Rawat ,Kavya Madhavan,Poonam Bajwa

China Town movie is a malayalam multi starrer movie featuring Mohanlal, Jayaram and Dileep in the lead roles. This movie tells us the story the sons of three friends who were parted twenty years ago are joining together for a particular aim.

China Town is a story of two generations. The sons of first generation are Mohanlal, Dileep and Jayaram. Their fathers were very sincere friends before 20 years ago. But their sons are parted in different ways. Later they combine together to execute an aim after 20 years

China Town Analysis

If one expects a humorous movie, then no one really cares about the logic. It should be one that will make you laugh. If that is so, the Vishu release from Rafi Mecartin - China Town – meets the expectations very well till the break but then the second half doesn’t live up to the billing and in the process breaks your heart.

i. The hall that I went to was packed to the rafters. One more multi-starrer movie. In multiple cinema halls. With multiple expectations. And yes with Mohanlal, Jayaram and Dileep in lead roles, you would expect it to do well.

China Town begins with a story of four friends who run a gambling shop in Goa back in the 80s. Quite a sight to see Mohanlal with co stars of the 80s Shankar, Prem Navas, Capt. Raju gambolling in their bell bottoms and prancing in care-free hippy style. The flash back ends with a gross murder that ends their lives. But one of them survives along with their 3 sons.

No, no revenge this time when the kids grow up!

The survivor brings up the three kids – Lal, Jayaram and Dileep. Jayaram( as Zacharia) in an unusual  gluttonous role played very well except for an awkward wig. Dileep (Binoy) a jobless Romeo gives a good performance. Mohanlal ( as Mathukkutti) is a wanna be ‘Don’. Kavya Madhavan plays Rosamma and she does a fair role except in a few scenes where the audience clearly voiced their displeasure. Whether she eventually becomes Lal’s lady love ... , well one has to watch the movie. The first half rocks with a lot of interesting scenes and the tempo is excellent. 

In the second half, Captain Raju (survivor) brings these three sons to Goa - China Town - to give them back their gambling shop. The villain is still around – bigger and meaner. The slide begins somewhere here.
Someone told me that this movie was inspired by the Hollywood flick ‘Hangover’. But when I didn’t find any similarities till the interval and I expected him to be wrong. But the second half reminds me proved me wrong. Introduction of Ranjini and all the reality show contestants, probably was a touch unnecessary. The ‘Hangover’ influence gets stronger.

Music by Jassi Gift is passable, the editing and special effects are quite interestingly done. The inclusion of the Hangover story by the script writer( the director himself) is the biggest flaw in the movie. Suraaj is okay in the comic role but what extra comedy can he bring up when the film already has Mohanlal, Jayaram and Dileep?

If you can spend Rs40 and get out by the interval, the movie is worth watching. But if you are adamant, then watch at your risk. An excellent first half but a disappointing second. Wishing you a happy and prosperous Vishu!

CHINA TOWN is a nice movie ,It's too difficult to bring a Hollywood movie (Hangover) in Malayalam,But they did it very nice.

The first Half is Super And Second Half is above average.Good work And Nice Cinema

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Source Code (2011)

• Release Date: 04/01/2011
• Rating: PG-13
• Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
• Genre: Science fiction, Thriller
• Director: Duncan Jones
• Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright

In Duncan Jones’s sci-fi thriller Source Code, Jake Gyllenhaal plays Captain Colter Stevens, a U.S. Army helicopter pilot who awakens after an enemy ambush to find himself sitting on a Chicago-bound commuter train, surrounded by strangers, with absolutely no idea how he got there. As he struggles to process his strange new milieu, he’s pestered with small-talk by a perky fellow-passenger (Michelle Monaghan) whom he doesn’t recognize, but who clearly seems to know him. When he looks into a mirror, staring back at him is the image of a man, who, while handsome, is certainly no Jake Gyllenhaal. What Hitchcockian hell has Captain Stevens wandered into? Could it all be a dream?

Before Colter can ponder matters further, a massive explosion sends him hurtling into oblivion, from which he emerges, intact, strapped to a chair inside a dark capsule-like enclosure. A woman, Goodwin (Vera Farmiga), pops up on a video screen and tersely informs him that he is now part of a new, high-tech front in the War on Terror: Source Code, an experimental program that allows a person to assume the identity of someone else during the last eight minutes of his or her life. Whoever planted the bomb on the train is said to be readying another, far deadlier attack to unleash on Chicago in a matter of hours. The only hope for preventing it is for Colter to repeatedly scour the memory of one of the train's deceased passengers in the hopes of finding clues that might help them determine the identity of the bomber.

Soon Colter finds himself in an existence not unlike that of Bill Murray’s character in Groundhog Day, revisiting the same eight-minute scenario over and over again. As a soldier, his first instinct is to try and prevent the explosion from happening and save the lives of the innocents on board. But doing so is futile, Source Code’s creepy and condescending inventor, Dr. Walter Rutledge (Jeffrey Wright), glibly explains. Source Code is not a time-travel machine but rather a “time-reassignment” device built on principles of quantum mechanics and parabolic calculus that Colter's feeble mind couldn’t possibly comprehend. The train bombing is a part of the past, which is unalterable; Stevens’ actions to prevent its occurrence, however heroic, have no real-world ramifications. He is simply a detective whose crime scene is the residual consciousness – the “after-image” – of a dead man’s brain.

But if that were true, Colter wouldn’t be able to exit the train, make cell phone calls, strike a romantic chord with Monaghan’s character, or engage in various other activities that we see him perform in the film, activities that lie well beyond the experiential purview of the dead man’s final memories. Could it be that the Source Code program is actually something more profound, perhaps a kind of portal to a parallel universe? (Jones’s usage of Scott Bakula, star of TV’s Quantum Leap, in a clever cameo as the Colter's father, provides a strong hint.) Colter's own experiences seem to confirm as much: Each time the train-bombing scenario unfolds, he notices subtle differences in seemingly trivial details, like the timing of a coffee spill. No two universes, after all, can ever be exactly alike.

This little twist exposes some potential issues with Source Code’s underlying logic, chief among them being questions about the reliability of any “evidence” uncovered by Colter in his quantum adventures. The narrative asks us to take a few logical leaps of faith, and I humbly suggest you comply. Source Code is more than strong enough as a film – an intelligent, probing sci-fi thriller that packs a surprisingly strong emotional punch – to withstand any nitpicking about its theoretical veracity. Director Jones’s ambitions are grander, his aim more mainstream, his tone more hopeful this time around than in his haunting 2009 breakout hit, Moon, but the result is just as resonant.

Sintel (2010) info

Genre: Animation | Short | Fantasy
Run time: 15 min

Wake Wood (2011) DVD Review

Release Date: 25 March 2011 (UK) | Country: Ireland | UK | Language: English | Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller | Subtitle: English (srt) | Size: 350MB | Quality: DVDRip

Plot:

 The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.