The Life of Pive

Rating: 5/10 (26 January 2013)

The Life of Pi wasn't all than how I expected it to be.
In most of the technical aspects of the film such as the special visual effects, computer generated visuals, musical scoring, and many other else related to the technical view of point, I was amazed and my standards were reached (well, except for some scenes). They really were good. Nevertheless, something that could have been improved was the cinematography. I would lie if I will tell that the camera rolling is awful because it's not. My point here is that they could have not overused the camera roll techniques in most of the scenes in top and underwater views.
Furthermore, as how I perceive a movie, it must not end on the technical aspects alone, but also on the substance of its content.
In the beginning of the movie, the perception that came into my mind was that it was a narrative movie as much time was consumed by Pi in beginning to tell his story. But, all those are not much important as the storyline progresses. The rising action saved the introduction as it was very very good. However, when it reached its peak, I can see no more progress. After some series of events happening on the climax, it came to its denouement and ended with sudden change of events -- not much smooth flow of plot.
If you will focus more on the adventure side of the Life of Pi, then you must enjoy the movie. But, if you analyze the central theme of the movie, it wasn't the life of Pi after all. It was just a hinge of his life.
There were good sides, but also bad sides. And thus, leads me to the decision of giving it 5 out of 10.