Furious(a)!!

Furiosa (Charlize Theron) and not Mad Max (Tom Hardy) is the real protagonist of the unmissable franchise-resurrecting Mad Max Fury Road. A relentless action sequence as Max and Furiosa outrun Imperator Joe along Fury Road, in their quest to save Joe’s wives, and a search for the elusive Green Palace from memory.

14/20

One in a Million (or at least in a few dozen..)

Albert (Seth McFarlane) is the quintessential misfit in the harsh Wild West – a well-read polished gentleman who tries to reason his way out of gunfights, much to the chagrin of bemused on-lookers who have come for a day’s entertainment i.e. watching one of the duelers die. Sheep farmer by profession, and spurned by gold digging girlfriend Louise (Amanda SeyFreid), Albert loses his heart to Anna (Charlize Theron), and almost his life to her husband – notorious outlaw Clinch (Liam Neeson). Hilarious in parts, crass in a few, eminently watchable and an unexpected winner overall – A Million Ways to Die in the West does not fail to remind you often enough that the Wild West really sucked..

14/20

Lease of Life

In the year 2093, seventeen men and women set off on spacecraft Prometheus to the one planetary system that science as well as historical evidence suggests was the origin of mankind. In the meantime, Earth gets struck by a veritable array of natural calamities, which changes the mission of Prometheus to that of finding a new home for mankind. The craft makes a safe landing at the destination planet – but, somehow, the exploratory mission gets struck by tragedy. Not least of all owing to the undercurrents of the real motives of the Weyland Corporation represented by the mission chief Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron) and by the actions of cyborg David (Michael Fassbender) that suggest a certain lack of alignment. Will the mission eventually be successful? Or will it get mired in in-fighting and external attack-induced tragedy? Prometheus is well-produced and well-directed, but as far as the genre goes, utterly lacks originality (think Sphere, The Deep, and many many more). A man no less than Ridley Scott should have done a lot more

11/20

Han-Cock-And-Bull

It seems that Will Smith's superhero/last-man-standing fixation is not unlike some adolescent complex that started with Independence Day, continued with I Robot, MIB and I Am Legend and has sadly survived stellar roles in movies like The Pursuit of Happiness and Ali. Hancock is a tawdry attempt to invent a hip-hop superhero who forms an unlikely on-off screen pair with - you'll never guess - Charlize Theron - remember her Academy Award for Monster - who too takes a fairly unidirectional nosedive in the quality sweepstakes. This is a truly poor movie that has absoultely no redeeming quality except the now hackneyed special effects - if someone is attempting to create a superhero genre and a great and spellbinding series, they would be lucky to survive their first edition with their fingers intact - much like what happens to the guys who call Hancock a#$hole in the movie