Danny Boyle's latest masterpiece.

Rating: 9/10 (17 October 2009)

Jamal is an 18-year old who has escaped from the slums of Bumbai when he was younger and has lived in the United Statse for quite some time.From the title, you can probably guess that he gets to play on the show 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' .As he answers the questions correctly, we get to see flashbacks of how he knew the answers.Some people actually thought he cheated.Well, he gets arrested by the police and they play the tape of him answering the questions and he tells them he didn't cheat.As the flashbacks progress along with the movie, we are hit with a film unlike any other.It is a deeply emotional movie that both entertains and rivets with it's sometimes brutality of Bumbai.It may be a lenghty movie,(Running time is 2 hours), but you will be taken away and you will be begging for more once the movie is over.Now I understand about the hype and the 8 Oscars the movie received.Yes, the movie is really good and should definitely be seen by it's targeted and non-targeted audiences.Be sure to stay through the end credits.What's after the movie is a literally breath-taking scene that really makes Danny Boyle a talented director.