Didn't deserve all of these Oscars, but that doesn't mean that it isn't a good one!

Rating: 8/10 (19 June 2016)

Last night I saw "Slumdog Millionair", so here is my review for it.
Lets start with a little synopsis of the movie. The movie is about Jamal. We see his live, but also see bits of how he won the TV-show, due to an interrogation. Did he cheat? Didn't he? Did he win the maximum prize?
This movie was directed by the wonderful director Danny Boyle, but this time he got some help of Loveleen Tandan. I believe she directed the bits that were filmed in India. I've seen another film of Boyle called "127 hours" a fantastic movie, with a special style to it. Boyel transferred that style to this movie as well. It was recognizable and I like when this is there Christopher Nolan too has a recognizable, and Quentin Tarrantino as well. Boyle used some very pretty and impressive aerial shots, where I sometimes thought that Cg was involved, but that it just wasn't noticeable. The directing wasn't of course the only good thing about the directing. The cinematography was also on point. But this is of course also thanks to the wonderful directing. There was this cliché shot, but this worked in the movie. The shot is when little Jamal and his brother are being followed by the police. This was pretty early on in the movie. Now that were the technical visual aspects of the movie. An audible aspect was the soundtrack. This was a very good part of the movie. It fitted the overall theme, but also the moments in the movie. The sound effects were also very good. Another thing that I really liked was the editing. It was done very good, without any mistakes that I could spot. But thanks to this editing the pacing was also very good.
The acting as well was very good. The main character was played by I believe 3 actors. The adult version and the kid version of him. Jamal, the protagonist, was played by Dev Patel. This is the first good movie that I've seen of him. But that isn't a big surprise because the only other movie that I've seen of him is "That Last Airbender". In that movie he over-acted, but in this movie though, he was very good. He did the emotional lines very good, and nailed the funny lines. Actually, all of his line delivery was very good. The kid versions were also very good. They were the most surprising, all of them. For their age it was very impressive. His counterpart for most of the movie was his brother. He too was good. The adult version was less good than the kid actors. The actress of Latika was also very good. The antagonists of the movie were the presenter and Prem. Prem was played by someone who also acted in "The Last Airbender" This was Anil Kapoor. He too was good. And the presenter was also very good. With every time Jamal won something you could see the hate in his face, even though he was smiling.
The script is something that I'm not so sure about. It had its good parts but also some bad ones. Let's start with the story overall. This was good. It was told in a creative way, with a bit of a "Usual Suspects" vibe. I was expecting a twist at the end of the movie, but there wasn't one. Like I just said, the story overall was good, but some bits weren't. Like the scene where he crawled through sh*t. This was for me more of a part to amuse the kids that ended up watching the movie for some reason. This was dull. Another little problem I have with the movie is the conveniences. That it was all to convenient that exactly those things happened in his life that were asked, and that's why I started to speculate that it would go full "Usual Suspects" I'm glad that they didn't, because that would've ruined the whole movie. There was also some good humor in the movie. The fat help cop had some funny one-liners and so did Jamal. No that I have that out of the way. How were the characters? very good. That's my answer to that question. Jamals and his brothers characters were well developed throughout the story by showing bits of their past. But due to the acting of Jamals actors I was more invested in his character than in his brothers. The character of Latika was good at moments, but annoying at moments too. Like in the last scene. When she was running to the car with the phone in it. This was rather frustrating, and she was useless at that moment too. You could argue that she was the motivation for Jamal, and I would like to discus that with you, because I think that she didn't have any influence to Jamal at that moment. The dialogue overall was also very good.
Well, that was my review for this movie. I don't think that it deserved all of these Oscars, but it isn't a bad movie. It's still very good. That's why I give this movie an 8.3/10