superb

Rating: 9/10 (6 January 2009)

go see it now! does everything a great movie should do. i sat through the awful Australia three nights ago and almost lost the will to live and the desire to ever go the movies again - so a huge hurrah for slumdog millionaire, it's restored my faith in bothering to go to the cinema when tickets are extortionate and there are heavy snows outside. poor old baz luh... i do hope he gets to see what boyle has done so he can watch and learn : this probably had half the budget of Australia, non of the hubris and it's a million times better! i had no expectations on going to see this film, and it was an absolute joy from start to finish. yes i can find fault here and there, but i'm a very harsh critic and on the whole this film is better than anything else i've seen in years. the child performances are stunning, (ps the one good fact in Australia was the child actor - where are these prodigies all coming from?) the cinematography is great and the storyline is clever. a great piece of film-making