The movie is a sci-fi thriller directed by Duncan Jones, that plays with parallel reality, time travel and multi-dimensional view of life. Source Code is not exactly the type of code that I write daily. Source Code is an American Govt experiment which enables a person to cross over to another man’s identity for eight minutes or something like that. A military man(Jake Gyllenhaal) is used for the experiment. He is sent to locate a bomb in a train, find the guy behind it and prevent another bigger attack happening in the future. He is sent back to the train over and over again, gathering some clues each time, until he could solve the mystery behind who is responsible.

The movie is filled with twists and suspense.  He relives those 8 minutes again and again and again. Essentially the movie is just those 8 minutes thought out in multiple ways. Gyllenhaal does a good job after Prince of Persia but that isn’t sufficient. The character feels incoherent and doesn’t extract sympathy from the audience.

As far as excitement is concerned, it is very limited in the movie. It doesn’t keep you rooted to your seats. It could have been better. The problem with Source Code is the idea of the Source Code. It is totally vague, confusing and nowhere smart when compared to other sci-fi thrillers.

The movie revolves around Indian politics and the media. The movie depicts the rise to power of a political party Siragugal run by an enthusiastic leader Vasanthan, played by Ajmal, who dreams to change the world. The other political parties are brought down by a photo journalist Jiiva who manages to take crucial photos at the right time and promotes the work done by Siragugal. The main characters in the movie are Jiiva and Ajmal. Piaa has come up with a role that would be remembered for a long time. Karthikaa fails to create an impact. Others including Prakash Raj and Kota Srinivasa Rao, just manage to make a few appearances here and there.

The twist in the tale in the second half is the pillar on which this movie is standing. Though new to Tamil Cinema, such twists are ingrained in my mind by watching numerous American TV series like 24 and LOST which include much bigger twists as the season progresses. Maybe because of that, I felt that the movie was quite predictable.

Music by Harris was nothing special. Other than ‘Eno Kuviyamilla’ the other songs didn’t even make an impact. The timing of the songs are totally absurd and the feeling was reciprocated by almost everyone watching the movie. It was as if it were inserted just to make sure that the movie had 5 songs in all. Bad move by K.V.Anand.

Cinematography was amazing. The locations were amazing. Those huge valleys and spectacular waterfalls made me wish that I were there. I would definitely love to go to those locations at least once in my life. I am even ready to become a part of movie crew if I can go to such exotic locations.

In all, its a good Tamil film after a long time. Quoting Sudhish Kamath – “KO- A riveting political thriller even if a tad convoluted to preserve suspense. Jiiva, Ajmal and Piaa are brilliant, gunfire scene -WOW 7/10.”

The story revolves around an ancient dagger which gives the possessor the ability to travel in time whenever they press a joystick like button on the dagger.

The plot is ridiculously simple unlike the plot of the video game series. The story has nothing more than Prince Dastan joining Princess Tamina to rescue the Dagger and the Sands of Time from his treacherous uncle Nizam.

Gyllenhaal has the looks of a prince and portrays the character well. He surely should have been given more action sequences to prove his mettle. Alfred Molina as the opportunistic ostrich-race organizer is quite impressive. Ben Kingsley as the wicked uncle Nizam is pretty ordinary. Gemma Arterton looks charming and gorgeous.

Considering that this was a high-budget movie, I expected much more impressive action sequences. There is never a flow in all those action sequences and we are never given a chance to see the prince flexing his muscles in an impressive stunt sequence. Even the sword sequence was shown just for a short span of time. Its meant to be an adventure film, but if feels like all the action has been squeezed out of the movie.

My Opinion – Not Awful. It entertains. Could have been better.

Well, for a music freak like me ARR is the Lord. Even after listening to his creation innumerable number of times one would never get tired. It is a magical experience. It boosts the spirits of everyone.

Many say “What’s life without music?”. Even I agree with that but I would like to add – “What’s music without ARR?” This was proved at our cultural fest, Festember too. Most of the events had the participants either singing ARR hits or dancing to his tunes. Pro Nite was an event which saw two prominent personalities, Drummer Sivamani and Singer Karthik performing at NIT Trichy. The 1hr long solo concert by Sivamani had him performing to various evergreen tunes of ARR. It was a truly interactive experience with his playing dexterity shining through. Even the next concert by singer Karthik had him singing from the diverse collection of ARR Hits. Truly, music is nothing without ARR.

Read the review of the movie at my Brother’s Blog. My verdict is that the movie is fun and is good for killing time.

This could easily be the worst movie of the year … The movie had “nothing” except for the great ARR’s Music(which has been terribly wasted in the movie).
Having heard the music of ATM and reading the review given in “The Hindu” , I had a interest in watching this movie… Even though I was warned before, I saw this movie expecting atleast a few good scenes… There were none…

Cast : Good Vijay, Bad Vijay(lolz!!!), one dumb n idiotic Shriya,

NOT DECENT ENOUGH TO WRITE A REVIEW ON…!

Such directors should be banned from directing any movies…. especially directors like this guy n Perarasu should be…