A trivial film ....

Rating: 5/10 (15 July 2013)

This film is laughable. The dialogs are puerile (Bastard in a basket, I drink your milkshake). And to make things worse, Paul Dano who plays one of the principal characters in the movie is just plain awful. My god, here is an actor who is worse than Abhay Deol and Farhan Akhtar. Dano came across as a young American yuppie trying hard to look like a fundamentalist. Dano is not helped by his very slight frame which he fails to use to his advantage. Pacino had a very slight frame in Dog Day Afternoon which he used to his advantage and turned in a powerhouse performance. It was just painful after a while with Dano and Daniel Day Lewis shouting at the top of their voices.
The whole film could have been over in 90 minutes. But instead, PTA made a lot of extras get down knee deep in mud and roll around in it to show what greed could do to a human being. He blew a lot of stuff up to show how humans abuse the earth. I mean, if you want to make a grand American movie, go the whole distance like Coppola did. A director should know the right actors to cast in his film. Paul Dano is just another De Caprio.
It is a nice film to look at. But PTA was rubbing it in all the time, what with the sinister sounding music and the epic visuals. He had to resort to such gimmickry to create effect because he is a poor writer who cannot write one good line of dialog to save his life.
(1/10)