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Flightplan is another thriller which does not bore simply because it’s got an innovative plot. The movie follows the story of a mother whose daughter vanishes in a plane 38,000 feet in mid-air intercontinental flight from Europe to New York . The absurdity of it all – from the mother’s point of view – was that no one else in the plane remembered her daughter on board, thereby making the mother herself presuming that she’s delusional. Bordering already on insanity, the mother maintains her conviction that her daughter has really vanished and is on a distressed stage. The mother then embarks on an exclusive search for her daughter.

Cellular is not your regular horror movie closely associated with the supernatural yet I find this movie more terrifying than those slasher stories and urban legends. Cellular revolves around the story of an abducted woman who randomly dials a cellphone number. The number on the other end happens to belong to a Ryan (played by Chris Evans). Ryan then desperately finds a way to rescue the kidnapped woman (ably played by early 90s screen siren Kim Basinger).

This situation can actually happen to any one of us. If we receive an anonymous emergency call on our cell line, will we treat it as a prank or as a real one? If it is a real emergency, will we risk our lives to help a stranger out or left him/her in the cold? That is a real dilemma. Watch how this film turns out.

The mutated life-size turles are back!

It would have been nicer if Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had a 3D version, but still this movie doesn’t fail to entertain. My childhood memories came back in flash upon seeing these well-missed turtles

I know that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles went on top of the box-office hit list at its opening weekend (March 28, 2007) and went head to head with the graphic epic 300 but I believe the kids of today are not familiar with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This turtle superheroes belong to the early 90’s as cartoon favorites, went kaput for a while, and now they’re back with a vengeance.

There’s one action scene that I admire in the movie – Leonardo and Raphael (in his Nightcrawler protégé character) squaring off in the rain. I think that’s a certain improvement in animation action scenes. Go watch the movie. And don’t forget to collect the toys too.

 

Tagline: A game nobody survives. But Schwarzenegger has yet to play.

The Running Man is a premonition of two things. First, it is about a reality show, long before reality shows were a fad. The movie is all about a game show called The Running Man where convicts get a chance to regain their freedom if they outwit their pursuing killers in the TV show. That may sound barbaric enough but this is how Stephen King pictures the futuristic society as it is in his book which is the adapted basis of the movie. The other premonition the movie has pointed out to us? There was a line in which star Arnold Schwarzenegger delivered in the movie and it went like this – “I’m not into politics. I’m into survival.” Look at where he is now.

TRIVIA:

This film is loosely based on a novel written by Stephen King that he penned under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. He wrote the story in 72 hours.