Good, but not Great as everyone makes it out to be

Rating: 1/10 (30 December 2008)

So did the movie live up to all the Oscar buzz going around? well, in part yes.
I gotta say thoroughly enjoyed the first half of the film. It was wonderfully shot; I loved the sequence where the slum boys were being chased with A.R. Rehman's fantastic score in the background. Moreover, the acting of the youngest versions of Salim and Jamal were fantastic.
However, the second half kinda let me down a bit. I was not impressed with the older versions of the the lead actors, especially Saleem. He was such a good character at the start but his older version was a poor actor and it just turned into a weak role. Also, the ending could've been better thought out I felt. It was too predictable for me.
Overall, this still is a really solid movie, and is definitely one of the year's good ones.