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James Brennan (Eisenberg) wants to attend university but his parents broke the news to him that they cant afford to pay for his education and James needs to get a summer job if he wants to go to Columbia. The only job he manages to land himself in is at a theme park, Adventureland where he is appointed to work for 'games'. His childhood friend, Tommy Frigo (Bush) who too works at the park but in the more glamorous 'rides' division. James meets Emily aka Em (Stewart) who is a co-worker with at the games division and the two seem to get along well and eventually fall in love. James does not know that the mechanic, Mike (Reynolds) who in spite of being married, has regular sexual encounters with Em. Both Em and Mike keep this as a secret between themselves with no one being the smarter. Enter Lisa P. (Levieva) who is the hottest girl working at Adventureland who immediately starts to flirt with James. Not being able to resist Lisa's moves, James gives in and puts his and Em's relation on a roller-coaster ride. The movie suffers from being too slow and dragged with developments happening at their own pace. The movie is not too funny but isn't very high on emotions either. It tries to be something in between and hence not a very entertaining option. The movie does, however, have an interesting plot line which is different and not like the conventional romance. Hence, if unconventional romance is what you seek, this movie delivers but if it is humour or the chance to enjoy an emotional movie, then this movie doesn't.

Thumbs up: Interesting story

Thumbs down: Very slow

Rating: 5.9/10

Whenever Bollywood has tried to explore a new Hollywood concept, most of the times the movie has fallen flat on its face. Be it superheroes, science-fiction, creepy aliens or, in this case, zombies, they never seemed to have seriously worked. Luv (Das), Hardik (Khemu) and Bunny (Tiwari) are three flatmates where Luv and Hardik only want to enjoy life and who also get high on anything they can lay their hands on. When Bunny has to go for an office assignment to Goa, Luv and Hardik decide to hitch-hike along with him. Luna (Gupta) is a random girl who becomes Luv's love interest for the rest of the movie. When Luna invites Luv to an underground rave party organised by the Russians, the three friends decide to go there to have the ultimate time of their lives. Boris (Khan) is ex-Russian mafia who is also the party organiser. The party is for the launch of a new drug which is more lethal than anything you might have come across. What he doesn't know is that the drug has a massive side effect which turns the person into a zombie. Daybreak and the three friends cant seem to find their boat or know where they are. What they do realise is that the island is teeming with zombies, all thirsty for their blood. After rescuing Luna and meeting Boris, the team decides to stick together to get out of this island for good. The movie seems to be heavily inspired from Shaun of the Dead, which is not very surprising considering that most 'innovative' Bollywood movies seem to have roots from outside the industry. The good part is that whenever you come across the Bollywood-ish moments when you think that the movie has screwed things up, the movie happily admits to its own doing. Like Saif playing a Russian with a fake accent to begin with and some parts lifted from other movies. The humour is good and very different from the sexual slapstick that you end up seeing in movies these days. A movie worth the watch, that is if you don't mind the occasional intestine ripping, blood spitting, hand-broken zombie.

Thumbs up: Amazing zombie look, good humour

Thumbs down: Still has some Bollywood elements attached to it

Rating: 7.1/10

Go back in history and Hollywood is littered with action heroes who have made a mark for themselves. The raw, unshaven and tough men have entertained audiences for years and now have beloved fan following. So how do you make the ultimate action movie? Go back in time and get all the big names that you can possibly assemble and ask them to appear in one movie. Forget scripts, forget acting but just remember to get tons of bombs and arsenal. A team of mercenaries formed by collecting elite but retired army men from around the world to carry out operations for anyone who has the money. Headed by Barney Ross (Stallone), the team consists of a blade specialist Lee Christmas (Statham), martial artist Yin Yang (Li), sniper Gunner Jensen (Lundgren), weapons specialist Hale Caesar (Crews) and demolitions expert Toll road (Couture). A man going by the name of Mr. Church (Willis) offers The Expendables, or as the mercenaries like to call themselves, an assignment to go to Vilena, an island off Mexico, to kill General Gaza (Zayas) the dictator of the island. Their rendezvous, Sandra (Itie) was supposed to help them but they get discovered by a team of Americans, loyal to a Mr. Monroe (Roberts). It appears that Monroe has been funding cocaine production on the island which has put the people in poverty and Gaza is now getting tired of Monroe's bullying tactics. The Mercenaries find themselves in a tight spot and hope that they can wriggle out of it, alive. Like I had mentioned, don't bother looking for a plot because this movie does not have one. The only things that it does have is either a gunshot or a blast, every three minutes. The movie is all about random objects blowing up, the lead hero never getting hurt and ridiculously insane stunts being pulled off with too much ease. The movie is a action-lovers delight but is forgettable otherwise.

Thumbs up: A big fat dose of action

Thumbs down: Nothing else worth looking out for, not even eye candy

Rating: 6.2/10

A friend in need, is a friend in deed. Or is it? When Carl (Dillon) is getting married to Molly (Hudson), he makes his best friend Dupree (Wison) as his best man. What comes after that is something that even Carl never imagined. Dupree is jobless, homeless, car less and penniless and taking pity on his unfortunate plight, he decides to let Dupree stay back for a few days much to the ire of Molly. Dupree's stupidity and antics doesn't win him too much love from the newly weds and Carl and Molly repeatedly feel they did the biggest mistake. Molly is the daughter of Bob Thompson (Douglas) who is the owner of the company where Carl works. Carl repeatedly feels the Bob is trying to put him down and is not very happy with their marriage. Bob suggests Carl drops his last name in favour of Molly's, makes his life at work difficult, does not show any concern or love to his new son-in-low and also proposed that he should undergo a vasectomy. The movie has some light humour and can be called 'funny' to an extent. It is a very typical romance-comedy movie and has more or less all the elements that one would expect. It is not outright funny or heavy on the romance bit and balances the two very well. 

Thumbs up: Good, interesting story

Thumbs down: Humour is a bit cliched

Rating: 6.5/10

Based on the true-life story of 4 Jewish brothers who escaped from the Nazi genocide and went on to create a Jewish resistance movement. Tuvia Bielski (Craig) along with his younger brother Zus Bielski (Schreiber), Asael Bielski (Bell) and Aron Bielski (MacKay) escape from their Polish village and attempt at hiding out in the forest. Slowly and steadily, more Jewish survivors find their way to the Bielski brothers and very soon a small community of Jewish survivors come under the leadership of the Bielski partisans. Zus and Tuvia have a difference of opinion where Zus wants to join hands with the Soviets and fight the Germans and not care about the community. Tuvia, on the other hand, wants to help those who cannot fight for themselves and offer them a chance to live. The movie uniquely showcases the brutality of war without focusing too much on violence and blood. Daniel Craig and Schreiber do complete justice to the role, with talking in Polish, having an accent et al. A good war entertainer which does not offer anything exceptional but is still watchable and enjoyable.

Thumbs up: Great acting, good story

Thumbs down: Everything is above average and not exceptional

Rating: 7.3/10

The third (and perhaps) final installment of the Iron Man series sees a paradigm shift in the movies concept. It tries to amalgamate elements from Christopher Nolan's Batman movies but yet keep the Iron Man action because of which it became so famous. Tony Stark aka The Iron Man (Downey Jr.) has become so obsessed with being the Iron Man and all his machines and gadgets, that he has forgotten about his personal life, his wife Pepper (Paltrow) and everything else that mattered to him. This starts taking a toll on his health with him being unable to sleep, having nightmares and regular anxiety attacks. Dr. Maya Hansen (Hall) a botanist had developed a technology that would allow plants to regrow and was working on improving the idea. When approached by a crippled scientist, Aldrich Killian (Pearce) Tony turns him down arrogantly and Killian vows revenge. Present day, Killian and Maya have collaborated on the technology, allowing crippled people to heal themselves and become normal once more. The Mandarin (Kingsley) is an extreme Islamic terrorist who is spreading terror within the world and vows to destroy the USA and Iron Man for good. With personal, physical and political problems coming upon Stark at the same time, life is not easy for him and may never be. Like I mentioned earlier, the movie tries to be more than Iron Man and has been more or less successful in doing so. Tony Stark is more realistic and natural and not over the top like in his previous movies. The biggest draw back is gripping and entertaining action, don't get me wrong cause there were more than enough explosions but they hardly seemed to make sense. A great action entertainer that has matured well over the past 2 movies. This might be the last one.

Thumbs up: Good maturity levels in the movie, improved story

Thumbs down: Some more 'entertaining' action

Rating :7.2/10

So what is the most absurd thing for which you can get possibly arrested? Bill Gambini (Macchio) and Stan (Whitfield) are two friends who are on a road trip and stop by at a convenience store in Alabama. Bill forgets to pay for a can of tuna and drives off, only to realise later. Stan starts getting extremely worried and fears arrest and prosecution which Bill does not agree with. Much to both their surprise, they do get pulled over and are shocked to find that it is not just tuna but murder. The store keeper was shot soon after they left the store and the two are prime suspects in the case. Being in Alabama and fearing the harshest of judgements, Bill calls his cousin, who is a New York lawyer, to represent them. Vinny (Pesci) has failed his bar exam 6 times, never been to court, been practicing for 6 months, deals only in personal injury cases and seems to know nothing about the law. His girlfriend, Mona Lisa Vito (Tomei) has accompanied him on the trip and seems to know more than Vinny on what should be done at court. With the prosecution throwing evidence after evidence and Vinny not being able to do anything, the chances of acquittal for Stan and Bill seem to be bleak. Although the movie has a very stereotyped story, it is funny and different. It is not the slap stick stupidity of Jim Carrey but is the more sensible and laughable humour. Although the humour is not in abundance, it is still enough to make you laugh hard. Pesci and Tomei have put on a good performance and special credit needs to go to Tomei, especially for her accent.

Thumbs up: Marisa Tomei, good entertainer

Thumbs down: Should have had a bit more jokes

Rating: 6.8/10