Hangover is hilarious!

A lot of movies line up before hangover in this genre. Yet Hangover does position itself comfortably in being one great entertainer. It’s a creative small plot that has been built cleverly and successfully keeps viewers guessing of what’s to come. Alan (Zach Galifianakis) has displays excellent acting skills and more often makes your tummy ache. Though I haven’t watched many movies of Todd Phillips, this one seems to be lot improved from his previous movies.

The first few scenes may give an impact of a serious movie to come with Phil (Bradley Cooper) makes a call with bleeding lips until we come to scene that says 2 days later and Doug has a talk with Alan. It all starts with Doug’s plan of celebrating the Bachelors party in Vegas with two of his friends and his fiancés brother. Alan shows his mark right from when they start to check into the hotel paying an extra 4500 dollars.

The song “Who let the Dogs out…” has been used in many movies for depicting more often comic situations. This one is no exception but is just hilarious. Especially when Alan tries to move his steps around for the song, sure your tummy aches. More to add are the tiger in bathroom followed by driving cop car on the platform, forgotten midnight marriage are all add-ons to the life of Hangover.

The unexpected celebrity to surprise you is Mike Tyson. Does his role as anyone would. Nice and enjoyable. Finally earning thousands of dollars trying to save a lost friend, ending up in someone unknown is all so clearly screen played with funny moments fabricated.

The director may have added more incidents and elongated the movie for unknown reasons. But he was pretty neat in arranging the scenes and cropping them as and when required not allowing viewers to wait for the completion of the scene. The movie doesn’t lose grip of the audience from beginning to end. Hangover is a creative story well told.

- Vishwa

“The Hurt Locker” – Best of Iraq War movies

I haven’t watched any of Kathryn Bigelow’s films yet. ‘The Hurt Locker” was my first and I’m impressed. This is one of the very few films that have all the ingredients of war, emotions associated with it and life, in the recent times. “The Hurt Locker” is daunting, powerful and quite suspenseful at every moment.

“The Hurt Locker" is about the chaos in Baghdad and particularly about the US army bomb squad. The story revolves around the Bravo Company’s bomb disposal unit; with US Army Staff Sergeant Will James, Sergeant Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge. The Thirty nine days of this company’s attempts with success and failure of disposing bombs around Baghdad is “The Hurt Locker”.

Jeremy Renner as SSgt. Will James is a cool, pretty experienced Bomb diffuser, who has differences with his own team Sgt. Sanborn, for his attitude makes Sanborn bothered. Jeremy Renner, with all his abilities makes the character, wonderful to watch. The movie doesn’t over-dramatize the war, as Ridley Scott’s ‘Black hawk down’ does. We know its war, and we see the chaos in front of our eyes, how everyday of life is blemished, so wretchedly.

The cinematography by Barry Ackroyd makes the movie riveting. Kathryn Bigelow’ achievement is not just in the perfect dramatization of the war, but in the few moments of the film like, when the boy who sells DVD to the soldiers, gets ripped for the body bomb or when the bombs are tied around a family man in the center of the market and Sgt.James says after his attempts to save him, says “Sorry”.

The film is very true to its subject and characterization and achieves at every level of directional perfection. “The Hurt Locker” might have to be watched out for this year’s Academy Awards, for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing and Best Cinematography. But even if it doesn’t make it there, it has already made into the list of Best War movies.