From Paris with Love (2010) (5/10)

Eiffel tower is shown a couple of times, a drive past Seine once but otherwise this movie could have been shot anywhere. I deplore the use of one of my favorite city's name in this fashion. The movie has elements of espionage and something like a plot but many holes. But clearly like many Hindi movies you are supposed to ignore that and just go gaga over the violence and the attendant nonchalance. Bottomline: if you like guns and shootings and brawls, this is for you. If not, perhaps you could give it a miss.

From Paris with Love (2010) (5/10)

The Color of Magic (2008) (6/10)

Had decided to watch this for my love of Terry Pratchett though from past experience I knew that movies don't live up to their print counterparts - and I had not read the book. I wasn't disappointed in what I had thought. The movie was complex enough and many of the usual characters were there - including a troll and the sentient luggage (knowing about diskworld is useful) but it is difficult to bring about the humour in the text. Did get to the see the circumfence and the rimbow though. A lot that should be left to imagination escapes like spells from book of magic and then is not as effective somehow. The tourist lives up to one and is by far the star, if unintendedly. I will leave the turtles be.

The Color of Magic (2008) (6/10)

Never Cry Wolf (1983) (7/10)

An unlikely lone ranger or rather a lonely biologist out in the arctic sent to locate the Canis Lupus Arctos. Hunt the caribou hunters, he is told. Crisp description, half in a report format, half in a diary format leaves a bit to be desired. Thankfully the no-nonsense natural surrounding left untouched makes up for it. Encounters with the Inuit, learning of their wolf tales, and understanding of their relationship with the Caribou gradually comes out. Interesting situations develop where the protagonist needs to assert himself in the lupine territory and when he discovers the caribou that the wolves actually eat and has to follow suit if only as an experiment to give credence to his observations. The bad human angle in the end seems overdone (though an equivalent is likely to be undoubtedly true).

Based on a book which is based on facts. Same name. By Farley Mowat.



Never Cry Wolf (1983) (7/10)