58. EVEREST (2015)

EVEREST (2015)

Language             -              English

Genre                   -              Biopic/Adventure

Director                -              Baltasar Kormakur

*ing                       -              Jason Clarke (Rob Hall), Jake Gyllenhaal (Scott Fischer), Josh Brolin (Beck Weathers)

IMDB Rating       -              7.1/10

PLOT

                                                                Rob Hall, a New Zealand mountaineer who commercialize Mount Everest expedition, prepares with new eight clients and three guides to ascend Mount Everest. His “Adventure Consultants” teams up with Scott Fischer’s “Mountain Madness” team for a joint expedition to the summit of Highest peak on Earth. Even though they faced some odds on the ascend journey, they were able to reach the top, but their descend did not go as planned due to an unexpected Blizzard. There starts the epic battle between man and nature.

                                                                This 2015 Adventure movie is based on the book Left for dead: My journey Home from Everest (2000) by Beck Weathers which deals with the 1996 Everest Tragedy. It has an ensemble cast from the Hollywood and shows the difficulty in mountaineering but didn’t project the challenges with much intensity. The CGI quality of the movie is in top class showing the summit scene, blizzards and even the frozen climates were all portrayed in a fine manner. The movie also borrowed many scenes from the Imax movie Everest (1998), but the crew has made many innovative shots like using giant refrigerating unit of the size of a semi-truck to cool the part of their shooting set and brought in real snow, because the director wanted the actors to feel like they were frozen.

                                                                It gained positive response from both the critics as well as from the audience and was a huge commercial success, but the sad part is that the movie is based on the 1996 disaster which results in the death of 8 people but the deadliest tragedy in the Mt Everest expedition occurred while the time of shooting the movie when 16 sherpas loss their life who carried luggage’s for the mountaineers.

It’s a good choice for the people who love biopic and a chance to see the beauty of Mt Everest.

Movie Trailer- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79Q2rrQlPW4

57. THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E (2015)

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E 

Language     -    English (United States)

Genre           -    Action- Comedy

Director       -    Guy Ritchie
*ing             -     Henry Cavil (Solo), Armie Hammer (Illya), AliciaVikander (Gaby)

PLOT

                                              

                              In the cold war time, an American CIA Agent Napoleon Solo, helps Gaby Teller to escape into West Germany despite the stiff opposition from the Russian KGB agent Illya Kuryakin. She was not able to provide much information to the CIA agents about the whereabouts of her missing rocket scientist father. Solo’s chief Saunders discloses that her uncle Rudi works for a wealthy Fascists family in Italy and her father might be secretly building a nuclear weapon for them. So solo forced to teams up with Illya and Gaby to prevent the disaster, at the same time three of them have their own secret agenda.

                                              The Man From U.N.C.L.E is an action-comedy spy thriller from Guy Ritchie, as you know Ritchie movies are always known for  being a crossover version of comedy and seriousness. The same applies for this one also, it may be a rarest of rare dream in which America teams up with Russia during the cold war, but as a movie lets take it into consideration. Even though there are many action sequences, Ritchie tried to make it as wittier, but still there are some good car chases and stunts. Henry Cavil presented Solo in the best way without any signs of Clark Kent. Armie Hammer also gave tough look in the Russian KGB agent role. The most brilliant part of the movie lies with its Art direction in which 70s were portrayed in its top-notch form.

                                      The movie is purely based on the television series of MGM in the same name, it has been in the shelf of Warner Brothers for many decades due to various reasons. The movie did not make much success as expected by Warner Brothers. It can be a pick for all those who love spy thriller, but never expect a Bourne movie.

Trailer-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K4Iv_N9Nno

56. CRIMSON RIVERS (Les Rivières Pourpres

CRIMSON RIVERS (Les Rivieres Pourpres)

Language    -   French (France)
Genre          -   Psychological Thriller
Director       -  Mathew Kassovitz 
*ing             -  Jeno Reno (Pierrie Niemans), Vincent Cassel (Max Kerkerian)

PLOT

                            Detective commissioner Pierre Niemans is called to Gueron, a University village in the footsteps of French Alps. He is tasked to investigate the murder of Professor and Librarian Remy Caillois, whose corpse was found at a height of 50m from the ground in a fetal position (just like a child in the foetus) with amputated hands, bruises all over the body and some removed eyeballs from the socket. At the same time in an another place Inspector Max visits two crime spots with break-in into a cemetery of Judith Herault and a break-in into a school where  the archive of Judith also went missing, he came to know that she was died in an accident at the age of 10, but when he approaches her mother she told him that her daughter was chased by demons and asked him to save his soul from the demons. Killings continues, mysteries remained, did both cases lead to same person?

                                                         Crimson Rivers is 2000 French psychological thriller, it’s a pure piece of work that is loyal to its genre. There is psycho, there is barbaric killings, there is dark, rain, pounding backgrounds, everything you need for a psychological thriller. Corpses used in the movie are made of latex, it gives the genuine feel for the audiences and shows the brutality of the killer. Cinematography and locations are the other two elements that makes this movie as a special one, you will fall in love with the beauty of Alps. Even though its as edge of the seat thriller, it has some confusions in the climax. There is not enough explanation in some scenes. Even Vincent Cassel, the main actor told that "I can't help explain the film because I didn't understand it! We cut out everything in the film that was explanatory, therefore 'boring' [according to the director]. You end up with a film that's not boring but you don't understand it [at] all”. But I don’t agree with that phrase completely, it’s a must watch movie for all those whose love investigative thrillers.