Good movie, but I wasn't blown away by the Oscar picture of the year

Rating: 7/10 (13 April 2009)

I usually expect to be blown away by the picture of the year. No blow here for me. I have nothing against Indian movies, I must say that a few days ago I watched 13B and thought it was the best thriller in years not to be released by Hollywood. As for Slumdog, I liked it, it had everything, but I feel it over-rated, as I saw someone share in a previous comment. Maybe I'm not educated enough to distinguish the great editing, cinematography or sound editing that it got the Oscar for, but what I'm sharing here is my experience as a viewer: this didn't feel like a Oscar movie, not to mention picture of the year. Just a good movie.