Werewolf: The Beast Among Us Movie Review

Werewolf: The Beast Among Us

                                                                                                

Werewolf: The Beast Among Us is horror thriller movie released in 2012. This movie is written by Michael Tabb, Catherine Cyran and Louis Morneau and directed by Louis Morneau. The main characters of Werewolf: The Beast Among Us are played by Ed Quinn, Guy Wilson, Nia Peeples, Stephen Rea, Rachel DiPillo, Adam Croasdell and Stephen Rea.

In the movie Werewolf: The Beast Among Us, we see a town where a very powerful werewolf in killing people at night. A group of werewolf hunters are hired to kill the werewolf and they find that, this extraordinary beast, disguised as a human, is living among the villagers. To stop it, they only have two days.
  

A Scene from the movie Werewolf: The Beast Among Us

Plot:

At the beginning of Werewolf: The Beast Among Us, we see a werewolf attacking the family of a little boy named Charles. Both of Charles’s parents die trying to save him, but finally Charles kills the werewolf and saves himself. Before dying, his father gives him a locket which was a sign of great werewolf hunters.

Years have passed and Charles has grown up. He is now the leader of a team which is renowned for hunting werewolves. One day, few men come to him asking his help, telling him that a werewolf has killed a lot of people in their village. Charles also finds that, that werewolf is of a special kind, which can hunt for three days in a row. He heads for that village with his team. On the way, they see a cart carrying dead bodies and also meet a zombie who has been infected by werewolf. As their regular procedure, Charles’s team shoots the zombie in its head and then burns the body.

Then we see a teenage boy named Daniel who is living in a nearby village where the werewolf has attacked. He is studying to be a doctor and has an affair with a rich girl. Daniel’s mother runs a hotel cum brothel in that village. Charles’ team reaches Daniel’s village just when a man was asking for the bounty of killing the werewolf to the local police chief, by bluffing the villagers. Charles exposes the bluff and then, by bargaining with the police chief, doubles the bounty announced by the police. Daniel becomes impressed by seeing Charles’s team and offers them his assistance. Charles politely declines. Charles’s team starts to stay at Daniel’s mother’s hotel.

Daniel‘s girlfriend tries to stop Daniel from becoming an werewolf hunter and also offers him to get admitted in a medical college, which Daniel declines. He keeps on working with the village’s doctor. They regularly get patients attacked by the werewolf and kill the ones who have got infected. Meanwhile, Charles takes preparation for hunting and on the next moon, sets a trap in the jungle to catch the werewolf. At the same time, a group of poachers were also after the werewolf. The werewolf leads poachers to Charles’s trap and thus, both of the teams fail to catch it. Charles understands that this werewolf is intelligent and thus, different from other werewolves. Daniel also gets chased and taken by the werewolf. Then the werewolf attacks Daniel’s mother’s hotel and kills some bad people.

Daniel finds a pattern in how this werewolf attacks people and proves to Charles that it only attacks low life. Being impressed, Charles listens to Daniel and together they go to the local gypsy head who gives them idea about how powerful and special this werewolf is. He also tells them that they must catch it in next two days, otherwise, it will be able to transform at its will and will be impossible to stop.

In the meantime, the villagers lose faith into the hunters and try to take matters in their own hands. They identify some persons who don’t have a strong alibi about them when the werewolf attacked last night and suspect them as werewolf. Daniel’s mother, his girlfriend’s father, the gypsy head, the police chief and some other people are kept into the jail for that night to see if any one of them is the werewolf. Charles also sets up another trap with the help of Daniel. They use one of the poachers as bait, as the werewolf is hunting lowlifes.  At the night, the werewolf attacks. This time again, all of Charles’s team’s efforts goes in vain and the werewolf escapes. But surprisingly, the werewolf hurts none of the members of Charles’s team when it has easy chances to kill them.

At the same time in the jail, the police chief feels seek. Becoming frightened, the guards kill all of the people in the jail, except Daniel’s mother who escapes. Then we get to know the human identity of the werewolf. We also see how he/she has become a werewolf and the reason why he/she has this special power. We can also see that an important person in that village is protecting and training the werewolf.

One member of Charles’s team finally finds out who the werewolf is and puts him/her in display in front of the villagers to reveal its true identity. But the werewolf breaks free and goes to hiding. Finally it comes face to face with that member, which also reveals another identity of that companion of Charles.

Can Charles or Daniel kill the werewolf? Can the human identity of the werewolf save the persons he/she love? Let’s watch the movie to find the answers.

A Scene from the movie Werewolf: The Beast Among Us

My review about Werewolf: The Beast Among Us:

First of all, I’ve found Werewolf: The Beast Among Us as a better than average werewolf movie.

The plot seemed nice and interesting. It was not easy to guess who the werewolf was and from time to time, the director has given signals to misguide us in that guessing in Werewolf: The Beast Among Us, and it felt exciting. Finding the werewolf was not the end of the movie. We got that answer long before the movie’s end and a lot of other things happened after that. But overall, the plot of Werewolf: The Beast Among Us is good enough to keep you attached.

The acting and the dialogues in Werewolf: The Beast Among Us were good too. All the actors and actresses have done a good job here.

The makeups and special effects of Werewolf: The Beast Among Us were also good. The werewolf and its transformation effects seemed natural. Specially, the makeup of the werewolf was pretty good, so I wonder why the director has not shown it more on the whole movie.

I found a big plot hole in Werewolf: The Beast Among Us.  When you see the human identity of the werewolf, you can clearly remember that you saw that person being chased by the werewolf. But the whole movie is about only one werewolf, nowhere else it refers any second one. It is hard to accept this type of mistake in a movie like this.

What I didn’t like about Werewolf: The Beast Among Us was the graphic scenes used in it. The director could show less (or indirectly) of them without harming the sense of the movie at all. This movie could do better without them.

Although there is no nude scene in Werewolf: The Beast Among Us, but for the body pieces and other scenes, this movie is not suitable for kids.

So, overall, I liked this movie. I’ll mark this movie as good, although not great. Werewolf: The Beast Among Us is surely worth giving a try.

What do you think about this one? Feel free to comment.

If you are interested to know more about Werewolf: The Beast Among Us :

IMDB link: Werewolf: The Beast Among Us IMDB

Wikipedia Link: Werewolf: The Beast Among Us Wiki

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Into the White Movie Review

Into the White

                                              

Into the White is a World War 2 based drama movie released in 2012. This movie was also titled as ‘Comrade’ and ‘Cross of Honour’. This film is written by Ole Meldgaard, Dave Mango and Petter Næss and directed by Petter Næss. Into the White has a very limited set of characters for almost the full movie, which are played by David Kross, Stig Henrik Hoff, Florian Lukas, Rupert Grint and Lachlan Nieboer. This movie is based on true events.

Into the White tells us about a true event when some British and German soldiers had to share a cabin in a rough weather during World War 2 and after staying there for sometime, how their humanity, friendship and brotherhood grows more than the differences between the two teams.

A Scene from the movie Into The White

Plot:

In an aircraft battle at the sky of Norway, a German and a British plane get shot by each other. Both of them have to crash land in a snowy mountain area.  The German plane had four soldiers in it, where one of them dies at the time of crash landing and another of them gets badly hurt in one hand. A heavy storm is approaching, so they search nearby and find an empty wooden cabin. They take shelter in that cottage just before the storm hits.

Soon after that, two surviving British soldiers of the British plane also come to the cottage. The British soldiers have no firearms with them. Considering their situation and the weather outside, the Germans let them come inside the cabin and takes them as prisoners. The German leader gives two beds to two of British soldiers and also marks their place to stay inside. According to the Geneva Convention, the British soldiers demand food and the Germans provide them that. The British soldiers also demand for respect and the German leader finally agrees to that.

From the beginning, none of them behaves in any violent or attacking manner to their opposition soldiers. Both of the teams know that, in such a situation, they need each other’s cooperation to stay alive. Both of the teams have to put the rules of warfare aside and cannot pick an enemy inside the cabin. The British feel sympathy for the wounded German soldier and give tips to the German leader to ease his pain. And also the German soldiers, in spite of holding the British at gunpoint, give them respect. The British soldiers’ target is to make the Germans angry, so that, being furious, they attack the British and make a mistake. But the cool headed German leader never falls on that trap even though the others are provoked.

The storm is running continuously and the soldiers inside the cabin are running out of foods to eat and woods to burn. They start to break the woods inside the cabin to burn. Meanwhile, the condition of the wounded German soldier is getting worse. He is also paranoid by the British. But with time, both of the teams get trust on each other, start to get friendly and the distance between the captors and the prisoners keeps on getting smaller. But at one time, when they take woods from one of the columns of the cabin and the cabin starts to fall, the German leader was trying to hold the cabin and the British leader uses this opportunity to take the gun from him. From that moment, the Germans become the prisoners of the British. He starts to treat the Germans with respect equally of what he has received. But the Germans manage to retrieve their gun and again, make the British prisoners.

A Scene from the movie Into The White

But the weather (the snow storm) was not getting any better and finally both of the teams lose any interest over the guns. They start to live there in a friendly manner. Suddenly they discover a small stock of food and drinks under the cabin’s floor and start enjoying them. They get to know each other better over the drinks. But the wounded German soldier gets gangrene on his wounds. The only way to save him is to cut off his hand. Putting the guns aside, they do it together, but finally, fail to save his life. They bury him outside the cabin.

At last, in one fine day, the storm stops and the sun comes out. They all get ready to go outside and find the nearest way. Meanwhile, in a nearby Norwegian army camp, they send out scout teams to look for the wreckage of the crashed planes. One German and one British soldier goes out together to find ways down from this mountain and meets the Norwegian scout teams. Then the unexpected happens.

A Scene from the movie Into The White

My review about Into the White:

First of all, I liked Into the White very much. And according to my guess, everyone else will.

Although the plot of Into the White is set in World War 2 and is about two groups of conflicting soldiers, but Into the White is not, at all, a typical war movie with the fighting, the shootings and the killings, like the movie The Flowers of War. It tells the story of survival, cooperation, brotherhood and humanity.

The plot of Into the White is very good and innovative, although it will not seem that innovative when you know it is based on true events. But in a beautiful movie like this, I was expecting a happy ending, which didn’t happen. At the very end, Into the White gives you more facts from the real events after the end of this particular plot, which feels very interesting and will leave you wanting for more.

The director and the screenwriter have done a beautiful job here in Into the White. The location, the screenplay and the dialogues match perfectly with the plot. The psychology of the soldiers inside the cabin seemed very realistic. Another important point about Into the White is, even though it is a Hollywood movie, it does not portraits the Germans as ‘evils’, which I’ve found as a rare case. The effects of the storm and the set inside the cabin was very good.

The acting of all the characters felt natural and flawless. Although, I think, the best acting in Into the White was performed by the German leader, but the character of Rupert Grint was the most amusing of all. Even in a serious movie like this, the dialogues of his character will make you laugh. This famous kid actor has also done an awesome job of acting here as a soldier. But as I’ve said, the acting of all others in Into the White were also impressive. The dialogues are very well chosen and the makeups were good  too.

Into the White is completely safe to watch with kids.

After you’ve finished watching Into the White  you should look for the facts about it in wiki (the link is given below) which is obviously worthy a look.

We can also see some stunning scenic views in Into the White near the end of the movie.

So, overall, Into the White was a beautiful movie and I really enjoyed my time watching this one. I’ll definitely recommend Into the White to all movie lovers as a must see.

How did you like Into the White? Feel free to comment.

If you are looking for more info:

IMDB link: Into the White IMDB

Wikipedia Link: Into the White Wiki

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A Beginner’s Guide to Endings Movie Review

A Beginner’s Guide to Endings

                                                                           

A Beginner’s Guide to Endings is comedy drama movie released in 2010. This movie is written and directed by Jonathan Sobol and produced by Nicolas Tabarrok and John Kozma. The major roles of A Beginner’s Guide to Endings are played by Scott Caan, J.K. Simmons, Harvey Keitel, Paulo Costanzo, Jason Jones and Tricia Helfer.

A Beginner’s Guide to Endings tells the story of five brothers, who, after their father's death, find out that three of them are going to die very soon. Then they try to make the last few days of their life meaningful.

A scene from the movie The Beginners Guide to Ending

Plot:

A Beginner’s Guide to Endings starts with a man telling us about his life and then he tries to commit suicide but fails. He takes another attempt and meanwhile, introduces us with his children, five boys. The eldest one is a boxer, who couldn’t manage a successful career for himself. The second one is a playboy. The third son is so far the most successful one, smart and organized. We don’t get to know much about the forth one, but he is trying to be a boxer like his eldest brother. The last one is an Asian and still a kid. The old man says that 5 of his sons are from 3 of his wives. He regrets for the life he lived and says he has failed as a father. Because of being frustrated for this, he seeks to end his life.

Then we see his sons have gathered for his funeral. But as he has jumped off the Niagara Falls and his body has not been found, so the funeral is going on without his dead body. At the funeral, his sons start fighting with each other for silly reasons.

After the funeral, his sons and the priest visit a local club. The priest was a very good friend of the old man and also of his sons. The priest reads his will. The man has left some small things for each of his sons and has also left his house to them. Then there is another letter which states, when his first 3 sons were little, in exchange for a huge amount of money, he has used them in a drug experiment. As a result, soon the 3 of them will die.

The 3 brothers become frustrated. The third son sees a doctor, who also says that he is going to die soon. When they get sure about it, they start to correct the mistakes they have done all their life.

The eldest one, the boxer, goes to the nearby gym, where he has set a fight for the fourth brother. Seeing the opponent in practice, he realizes that his brother is no fit for his opponent. Feeling the danger for his brother of getting killed, he tries to avoid the fight but the fixer demands $20,000 for cancelling the game. He then starts to seek the money.

The second brother, the playboy, feels that he needs to settle down with someone. Opposing everyone else’s opinion, he heads for his high school crush, who seems as a pretty dangerous lady to marry. He spends some times with that lady and at one point, she puts him face to face with her boyfriend, who had cases against him for assaulting people. The outlaw boyfriend tries to kill him, but also says, he will get the girl if the brother can defeat him.

The third brother, the smart one, living a controlled life till now, starts to seek for adventure. Putting on a costume of Elvis Presley, he quits his job, talks with the girl which he always has hesitated and slaps his manager. He maintains a list of things to do before he dies. The last thing of his list is to get inside a barrel and then jump off the Niagara Falls, which he attempts.

Meanwhile, the eldest brother, failing to get the $20000, decides to fight the boxing match himself instead to his young brother, to save his brother’s life. But from the priest, he learns why he can’t fight and why the same fate has happened to him in every match he has fought. He also learns that, even after living a reckless life, how much their father loved them.

The last part of the movie is about the three brothers’ dangerous attempts and about the last days of their life, or is it?

My review about A Beginner’s Guide to Endings:

First of all, I didn’t like A Beginner’s Guide to Endings much.

The plot of A Beginner’s Guide to Endings is not bad, but its predictable. If you have watched enough movies, you will know what will happen at the end, in one way or another. The ending felt too dramatic for me. And also, A Beginner’s Guide to Endings had the probation to include much more comedy and suspense elements in this movie, but the director didn’t do it. It could make this movie much better.

The acting and the dialogues are goods. The casting also felt good. But, the character development of A Beginner’s Guide to Endings is very bad. Usually I don’t write much about character developments, but in  A Beginner’s Guide to Endings, I specially felt it being very poor.

Although this is a comedy movie, but the comedy elements were also very poor, and I didn’t find any scene at all which could make us laugh. But still, the whole A Beginner’s Guide to Endings doesn’t go maintaining a pure serious tone. To me, this movie is oddly stuck somewhere between being funny and being serious.

There is no nude scene in A Beginner’s Guide to Endings but it has some regular ‘bad words’. I feel its safe to watch it with kids.

So, finally, I didn’t enjoy A Beginner’s Guide to Endings. Although its not that kind of movie that will make you feel your time got wasted, but to me, its not something to love. I won’t recommend watching A Beginner’s Guide to Endings to other movie lovers.

Do you share the same views with me about A Beginner’s Guide to Endings or the opposite? Let me know your comments.

For those who are interested:

Wikipedia link: A Beginner’s Guide to Endings wiki 

IMDB link: A Beginner’s Guide to Endings IMDB

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The Descent : Part 2 Movie Review

The Descent : Part 2

                                                     

The Descent : Part 2 is a British horror thriller movie released in 2009. As the name suggests, this movie is the sequel of the British horror film ‘The Descent’ which was released in 2005. This movie was produced by Christian Colson and co-produced by Paul Ritchie and Neil Marshall. It was directed by Jon Harris. The major roles of The Descent : Part 2 were played by Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Krysten Cummings, Gavan O'Herlihy, Joshua Dallas, Douglas Hodge and Anna Skellern.

In The Descent : Part 2, one of the survivors of its prequels comes back from the cave and then lead a team of police and scientist to that cave again, who now face those awful underground creatures.

A scene from the movie The Descent: Part 2

Plot:

The Descent : Part 2 starts form where its prequel ended. At the beginning, we see police and other people are searching for the missing girls (from part 1) where one of them, Sarah, comes out alive. She is admitted in a hospital. The doctors there find the proofs of her  heavy fighting and also find bloods of other people on her clothes, which they suspect, are the bloods of the other missing girls. But the police can’t get any information about the other girls from her, because she has lost her memory of the previous 2 days.

With the help of a dog, the police find the way from where Sarah has escaped. The police sheriff, along with his deputy and an expert with his 2 trainees take Sarah there. That place was the entry of an abandoned mine, which had a cave system. They find some information from the mine’s caretaker and decide to enter there. Taking proper preparations, they enter the mine by an old lift. But when the lift starts to descend, the caretaker winks at one of the members of the group.

They find the mine and then the entry of the cave system. An old sign was there at the entry of the cave to warn people to not to enter. But soon after their entry, Sarah starts to remember little bit of her memory in the cave and tells everyone to not to go there, but the others ignore her, thinking her mind is playing tricks with her. They also find the body of one missing girl, who were murdered. The sheriff suspects Sarah for the incident. While passing a narrow tunnel, Sarah remembers more from her earlier experience here and suddenly attacks others and tries to run away at the deeper parts of the cave.

The sheriff follows her and thus two of them get detached from the group. Then the sheriff sees a strange creature and in panic, shoot from his gun which causes the cave to collapse. One of the trainees of the expert gets trapped in rocks. The other 3 (the expert, his other trainee and the deputy of the sheriff) starts again to find an escape route. They reach to a room full of bones and find the camera of the missing girls. From the camera, the see the human-like creatures and then those creatures attack them. The team gets split and the expert gets killed by the creature where the deputy was saved by Sarah. Sarah tells the deputy that the creatures are blind and they hunt via sound.

When another creature is trying to attack the trapped trainee, she escapes and kills that creature. She then finds the other trainee and together, tries to survive and find their way out of there. But after several of their attempts to stay alive, they find the body of another lady from the previous group and then, get killed by the creatures.

Sarah and the deputy keep on hiding from the creatures on their way to escape. Meanwhile, the sheriff who was alone, falls in front of another creature and when the creature was about to kill him, Juno (a lady from the previous group, who has also survived but couldn’t get out of the cave like Sarah) saves him. After all these days of living inside the cave and fighting those creatures, Juno seemed mentally unbalanced.

Finally the four of them gets together and Juno and Sarah start to fight with each other. At one point, they understand that this fighting will not help any of them and they need to be united to get out of the cave alive.

To stay alive, their only options are to stay away from those creatures as much as possible and to find a way out of the cave system as soon as possible. Can all of them succeed?

My Review about the movie The Descent : Part 2:

First of all, I liked this movie.

The plot of The Descent : Part 2 is good, although its predictable. The fate of the group is what we regularly see in all horror movies, nothing new. At the very ending, there is a little surprise, but not what we cannot predict at all.

The goal of a horror movie is to make you scared, and here the director has successfully achieved that goal. Here in The Descent : Part 2, the tension grows up very slowly from the beginning and the movie seemed pretty balanced. The good jobs of sound and lighting effects have helped to create a frightening environment. The cave looked beautiful when the group enters there, but later on looked equally scary. But I think, the set could be better on the scary part. The sudden appearances of the creatures in The Descent : Part 2 with loud sound effects are good enough to make you startle.

The acting is good, so are the dialogues. The makeups are good for most of the parts, only at some small cases, it felt like overdo. The creatures also looked good (read: scary). The only negative side of The Descent : Part 2 is the effects of the blood. Here, the human blood looked pink, which has given a very cheap feeling for some parts. I don’t understand why they couldn’t do any better with those effects.

I also felt like The Descent : Part 2 had some overuse of violence. Those violences, bloods and some scenes with the corpses felt unnecessary.  This movie could do better without them.

Although there are no nude scenes in The Descent : Part 2, but for the violence, you cannot watch it with kids.

I haven’t watched The Descent (part 1) yet, but still enjoyed this movie. Although it’s the continuation of its prequel, but you don’t need to watch that one earlier to understand its plot or to enjoy this movie. Trust me, not watching The Descent (part 1) will not ruin your experience of The Descent: Part 2. But yes, after watching this one, I feel I should watch The Descent.

So overall, I liked watching The Descent : Part 2  I’m not sure how much the fans of other genre of movies will enjoy it, but as a horror, its better than average and I’ll recommend The Descent : Part 2  to all horror movie lovers.

How much did you like this movie? Write in comments.

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IMDB Link: The Descent : Part 2 IMDB

Wikipedia Link: The Descent : Part 2 wiki

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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters Movie Review

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

                                                                   

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is an American-German action horror fantasy film released in 2013. This movie is co-written and directed by Tommy Wirkola and produced by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Kevin Messick and Beau Flynn. The movie was filmed in Germany. The title roles of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters are played by Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton. Famke Janssen, Pihla Viitala, Peter Stormare, Derek Mears, Thomas Mann and Rainer Bock has played other important roles. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters was also released in 3D.

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is about a brother and a sister who hunt witches and at one of their mission, they find a huge challenge to kill the leader of the witches, which also brings some truth about the siblings' identity.  

Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton in  Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

Plot:

The plot of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters starts when two siblings, Hansel and Gretel were kids. One night, suddenly, their father takes them to a jungle and leaves them there. While wandering around, they find a house made of candy. They enter that house and find a witch inside. The witch tries to kill them, but they fight the witch and finally kill her. Later on, the brother and sister duo, Hansel and Gretel becomes professional and renowned witch hunters.

One day, in a small town where small kids were going missing, a lady is caught for the allegation of witchcraft and the sheriff is about to execute her. Just then, Hansel and Gretel appears. They are hired by that town’s mayor to solve the problem of witches. Hansel checks her and confirms that she is not a witch. Then, when Hansel and Gretel starts to look for the witches, the sheriff also sends a group of men to the jungle at night for the same reason. All of the members of that group get killed by the grand witch. Hansel and Gretel catches a witch, and by interrogating her, they learn that the witch leader is preparing for a grand ritual, for which, she needs to sacrifice six boys and six girls each born at separate months. Hansel and Gretel also finds a teenage fan of them in the town, who himself also keeps knowledge about witches.

Suddenly, the grand witch, with her team, attacks the town and takes their targeted kid. Hansel and Gretel try to fight them. While fighting, Gretel gets hit and becomes unconscious. Later on, she is brought to safety and gets taken care of by their teenage fan. Hansel follows another witch to the jungle, but also gets hit.

The next morning, the lady they saved earlier, finds Hansel and helps him to get healed. In the meantime, Gretel searches the jungle for her brother and gets caught by the sheriff and his team. They beat her, but she gets saved by a somewhat human-like creature named troll. The troll takes Gretel to a safe place and helps her. When Gretel asks him for the reason why he has helped her, he replies that troll saves witches and then he leaves. Then Hansel and Gretel reunite at their old childhood home. To their wonder, they find the place as a witch’s layer. Then the grand witch comes there and tells them about their past. She tells them the identity of their mother, how their parent died and also reveals that Gretel is a white witch herself. Then they start to fight and again, the grand witch defeats Hansel and Gretel and abducts Gretel for her grand ritual.

Again, when Hansel wakes up, he finds that lady whom they saved. Then she says that she is also a white witch. Next, they gather all their weapons and the lady blesses them. Then, Hansel, that lady and Hansel and Gretel’s teenage fanboy from the town head for the place where the grand ritual was taking place.

The last part of the movie is about their attempt to save Gretel and the kidnapped children and about Hansel and Gretel’s challenge to take revenge on the grand witch.

My review about Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters:

First of all, I felt disappointed after watching Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.

Actually, seeing the trailer and posters and most importantly, considering the casting, I had a very high expectation about this movie. But Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters has totally failed to keep up with my expectation. Both of Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton has grown a good reputation for themselves already and I don’t understand why they had to act in this movie.

The weakest part of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is its plot. The plot is too weak and simple to satisfy the movie lovers. While keeping everything as they are, just a more sophisticated plot could make Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters far, far better. And needless to say, it was pretty predictable. Its not that every movie has to have some twist in the plot, but at least it could be better than two siblings who are witch hunters, learns their past and then go on their mission.

And several unnecessary scenes of violence also add up to the negative side of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. The director could do better without them.

But on the good side of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters  the acting and dialogues are good. Same goes for the make-ups. The witches also looked okay, where the troll looked like the “Ogre” from the animation ‘Shrek”. The location also looked good and the weapons looked old styled but fashionable.

This movie features a small scene of nudity. So considering it and the violence, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is not a movie for kids.

The special effects are also good, although they felt insufficient. A little more use of special effects would look good on this movie.

So, overall, although Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters has a better than average IMDB rating of 6.1 (while I’m writing this review), I didn’t like this movie. You can consider watching it by considering its casting, but I will not recommend Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters to anyone who is looking for good movie to have some time spent pleasantly.

How much did you like Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters? Feel free to comment.

For those who are interested:

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The Amazing Spider Man Movie Review

The Amazing Spider Man 
                                                                      

The Amazing Spider-Man is an American superhero film (like Captain America: The Winter Soldier) released in 2012. As we all know, this movie is based on the famous Marvel Comics character “Spider-Man”.  The Amazing Spider Man is the fourth movie of this Spider -Man series, but after the third, this one starts again from the very beginning of the original story, thus serving as a reboot. This movie is written by James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves, directed by Marc Webb and starred by Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, Martin Sheen and Sally Field. This movie is released also in 3D.  

In The Amazing Spider-Man, we see how Peter Parker becomes the Spider Man, his struggles before and after his transformation and how he faces the villain, Lizard Man.

A scene from the movie The Amazing Spider Man

Plot:

The plot of The Amazing Spider-Man starts when Peter Parker was a kid. One night, in a hurry, Peter’s father takes Peter to Uncle Ben and Aunt May’s house and leaves him there taking Peter’s mother with him. They never returned. Their fate was not shown at that time of the movie.

Peter grew up to a teenager. In his school, he was regularly bullied by some other teens. He always carried a camera with him as he was fond of photography. But one day, some bullies beat him and break his camera when he refuses to take photos of those boys bullying another student. This incident also helps him to earn respect from beautiful Gwen.

One day Peter accidentally discovers his father’s secret documents. From his uncle Ben, he learns that his father was working with Dr. Curt Connors of Oscorp and then we see how his parents died. To learn more, Peter goes to Oscorp and enters there taking the identity of an intern. Then he sees Gwen from his school is taking the interns to a tour in Oscorp and he mixes with that team. Soon, with his brilliance, he gets noticed by Dr. Curt Connors, who, at that time, is working on cross species genetic exchange to cure the human from different disease. Dr. Connors' target is to cure the head of Oscorp and also to get his arm back.

Peter gets detached from the intern group and sneaks into a special lab, where he gets bitten by some exceptional type of spiders. His suspicious activities get caught by Gwen and she throws him away from the group. While returning home, he starts to feel his extraordinary abilities.

Soon Peter learns to control and use his new abilities and teaches the bullies at his school a lesson. Peter also meets Dr. Connors in his house and gives him some clue (which he has found from his father’s research) to complete his unfinished research. Peter gives Dr. Connors his identity and starts to help him with his research, which finally brings the success to regenerate an arm of a mouse. But after returning, Peter gets scolded by his uncle Ben for forgetting his responsibility. Angrily, Peter leaves the house and his uncle follows to search for him. In a store, he meets a thief who helps him, but accidentally kills uncle Ben. Peter finds the body of his uncle. Peter also realizes that it was him, who saw the thief stealing and had let him go. Later on, police gave him some clues about that thief.

Peter starts to beat up criminals to find that thief. From a painting on a gym’s wall, he gets inspired to make a costume. He makes that costume and also creates some kind of machine to shoot web from his wrist.

In the meantime, Dr. Connors’ boss pressures him to apply his newly found serum on human. When Dr. Connors rejects, his boss threatens him that he will shut down the whole project and also says, Peter’s father also didn’t agree to test his medicine on human. Out of desperation, Dr. Connors applies the serum on himself and turns into a big human-lizard.

Peter goes to Gwen’s house to attend her invitation and finds that, Gwen’s father is the police chief, who is looking for spider-man. They both had a little argument on the dinner table. After the dinner, Peter reveals his identity (as spider-man) to Gwen and they kiss. Then he hears police siren and Gwen’s dad rushes to a bridge where the lizard-man attacks. Peter also rushes there and saves some people.

On the next few days, Peter does some research and finds a possible hiding place of the lizard-man in the sewer. He then fights the lizard, but loses and escapes from there. Peter tells the police chief about the identity of the lizard-man, but he doesn’t trust him completely. The lizard man (Dr. Connors) learns Spider-Man’s identity from his camera and attacks his school to stop him, but Spider-Man again saves the students.  Later, he finds the plan of the lizard-man, that is, to use a special machine of Oscorp to convert all the people of the city to a stronger version of human, i.e., lizard-man.

The next part of the movie is about the plan of the lizard-man and the attempts of the spider-man to stop him.

My Review about The Amazing Spider-Man:

First of all, I liked The Amazing Spider-Man. Although I didn’t find it mind-blowing or extra-ordinary amazing, but I still liked it.

The plot of The Amazing Spider-Man is simple and pretty predictable. Almost all of us know the story of Spider-Man, like what happened to his uncle, how he got transformed etc, and this movie gives no surprise. The ending is also very predictable.

The dialogues are okay, not bad or nothing special. I didn’t like the acting of Andrew Garfield in The Amazing Spider-Man. I mean, his acting was not bad at all, but to me, he seemed too smart to be a kid who is regularly being bullied by his classmates. Here I missed Tobey Maguire, who’s innocent (and sometimes, confused) face and beautiful acting matched perfectly with the character he was playing in Spider-Man (part 1). The acting of all other characters of The Amazing Spider-Man were also good, but again I missed beautiful Kirsten Dunst. I’m not complaining about the artists here, I just missed the old ones.

The make-ups are good, except for the lizard-man. To me, it looked funny, not the image of a scary villain. Here in The Amazing Spider-Man the villain is not evil, his intentions were not bad, but harmful and wrong. He himself is a tragic hero.

The special effects are very good in The Amazing Spider-Man. Specially, the continuous shot in the action scene in the school where the Spider-Man was running over the lizard all around it trying to put it in nets looked awesome. All other flying and action scenes also looked beautiful.

At the last parts of the The Amazing Spider-Man, I was really hoping to see some more lizards after the lizard -man used gas on some police, but there was nothing like that. I think it could be a good addition to the movie.

To all Spider-Man fans, The Amazing Spider-Man should come as a big relief after the last part (part 3) of the previous Spider-Man series, the series which started with an amazing movie but kept getting worse at each sequel.

If you think after watching pervious three movies, there is nothing new to watch in The Amazing Spider-Man, you’ll make a wrong guess. There are a lot of differences in this movie with the previous one. For example, The Amazing Spider-Man, Spider-Man doesn’t enjoy public fame like the previous one, here he doesn’t have a photo-journalism career, here webs doesn’t come out of his hands, he makes an electronics device for that and here he hunts criminals for his personal vendetta, not to help people. In this movie, most of the Spider-Man’s moves are also different.

In my judgment, between Spider-Man (part one) and The Amazing Spider-Man, I’ll keep Spider-Man (part 1) on top. But The Amazing Spider-Man has a great potential and I’m looking forward to enjoy The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Whatever, The Amazing Spider-Man is still a nice movie. An IMDB rating of 7.1 supports it. By watching this movie, I felt my time nicely spent. If you are a Spider-Man fan or a superhero movie fan, I’d recommend The Amazing Spider-Man to you.

How do you feel about this movie? Feel free to write in the comments.

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