(According to Japjeet Singh Ranbanka is a 3 star movie)

bearing an uncanny resemblance to hollywood psychological thriller straw dogs, ranbanka shows how a common man, rendered spineless by the corrupt system is forced to resort to violence to protect his family. rahul takes every legitimate step to fight raghav but when that fails, he is provoked to hit back at his bully himself. what could have been a decent revenge drama gets marred by uninspiring (hero) & overdramatic (heroine & the villain) acting. ravi kishan's devilish slowmo laughter is too repetitive to be scary, funny man manish seems too uninterested and uninvolved to matter and thakur plays the cliched damsel in distress, who sobs throughout. in her defence, she tries at least. the background score is unintentionally funny and songs unnecessary. a holi celebration scene (in mathura) has some five people dancing. the dabangg-esque climax is predictable but probably the most effective sequence in this formulaic film.
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(According to Japjeet Singh Spectre is a 3 star movie)

the film opens in mexico city, on the dia de muertos (day of the dead). the entire city is out on the streets to celebrate the dead. in a perfectly-tailored tux and tie, bond (daniel craig) observes his target from behind a mask. in a few minutes, he's eliminated two people and brought an entire block down. a fight in a helicopter follows. bond kills the person he's been tailing, marco sciarra (alessandro cremona), after receiving a posthumous message of sorts from the ex-m (judi dench). sciarra's widow lucia (monica bellucci) leads bond to spectre, a global criminal syndicate with a stylised octopus for a symbol, and its mastermind ernst stavro blofield/franz oberhauser (christoph waltz)
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(According to Japjeet Singh The Hunger Games 2 is a 3 star movie)

there’s no risk that katniss everdeen, the warrior who has led the charge against oppression in “the hunger games” movies, can ever eturn to her current incarnation. even if she and her world are rebooted back into franchise existence by a ravenous studio, her moment was now. katniss, as played by jennifer lawrence over three years and four blockbusters, has evolved from a backwoods scrapper in the first movie into a battle-scarred champion and an exemplar of female power on screen and off — and the battles she’s fought have extended far beyond the fictional nation of panem. so, yes, of course katniss is back, just as promised by the clumsy title of her last movie, “the hunger games: mockingjay part 1.” in “part 2,” she has eturned as destined to finish the fight, defeat the enemy and send off a big-screen series that has had an astonishing run both in cold-cash terms and in its meaningful symbolism. she’s ready. since 2012, when the first movie landed, katniss has grown into her role as a savior, an evolution that parallels that of ms. lawrence, who entered the series as a sundance starlet and leaves it as one of the biggest stars in the world. both have grown exponentially, rising to the demands of their loving audience. and “the hunger games” has triumphed partly because it means so many different things to so many people. it’s a story of war and peace, love and bullets, pegged to a girl-woman who fights for her family, her friends and the future. it’s aspirational and inspirational, personal and communal, familiar and strange, and it speaks to the past as well as the present, sometimes unnervingly so. suzanne collins, who wrote the books, took her cues from reality television, the iraq war, roman gladiator games and the myth of theseus and the minotaur, and then filtered her influences through a heroine who embodies the adage that it’s better to die on your feet than live on your knees. the result was a great character on the page and a transcendent one on the screen, where women tend to be sidelined or trapped in the virgin-whore divide.
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