Trap is Shyamalan's Silence of the Lambs but at a pop concert. The movie also acts as an indulgent musical showcase for Shyamalan's daughter, Saleka.
Josh Hartnett is menacing throughout, he scores the major positive. The Act 1 sails like Titanic and by Act 3, hits the iceberg and the movie sinks.
Set against the apocalyptic backdrop of post-disaster debris, the film follows Yuichi Sumida, a boy who simply wants to be an ordinary "Himizu" (Mole in Japanese), hiding from a cruel world, despite suffering horrific abuse from his deadbeat father. He is relentlessly pursued by Keiko Chazawa, an eccentric classmate dealing with equally deranged parents, who acts as Sumida's loyal guardian angel. The entire movie is driven by explosive performances from the leads, Shota Sometani and Fumi Nikaido. While the narrativeโฆ
DRISHYAM 3 is 150 minutes of Kalyan Jewellers matrimonial advertisement disguised as a thriller where Jeethu Joseph milks the franchise until the cow runs out dry. Mohanlal single handedly carrying this exhausted, repetitive and totally unnecessary cash grab only adds to the misery. Frankly, watching this franchise limp to the finish line just makes you beg the police to finally arrest Jeethu Joseph for torturing the audience. It's time for milkman Jeethu to retire both Georgekutty and his shovel toโฆ
Anurag Kashyapโs Bandar examines cancel culture, public ruin and the nightmarish reality of Indian prisons through a morally gray lens. Co-written by Sudip Sharma and Abhishek Banerjee, the film skips conventional courtroom histrionics to trap both the protagonist and the viewer inside a claustrophobic, brutalized jail cell. Bobby Deol delivers his career best, vulnerable performance as Samar. Sanya Malhotra, Sapna Pabbi, Indrajith Sukumaran & Raj B Shetty were amazing in supporting roles. Kashyap refuses to offer easy moral answers, instead heโฆ
