Overview
A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".
While the first 2/3 of the movie were fairly interesting, the director really brought the movie together in the final third. I really enjoyed this film as it was so different than any other movie that I can recall.
For those of you that have seen the film, I do have one observation. About halfway through the movie I thought they were going to drop a
“Usual Suspects” ending on us. Think about it: it seems as though they were leading you down a path about how the lead supposedly didn’t cheat on a game show and that his life experiences taught him the answers that he needed to know. I liked the ending that was presented to us but I think that would have been a great one also.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Slumdog Millionaire
Movie title: Slumdog Millionaire
Movie description: A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".
Date published: 2009-05-01
Director(s): Danny Boyle
Actor(s): Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal, Anil Kapoor, Mahesh Manjrekar, Saurabh Shukla, Irrfan Khan, Ankur Vikal, Tanay Chheda, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar, Rubina Ali, Raj Zutshi, Jeneva Talwar, Sharib Hashmi, Mia Drake, Shruti Seth, Anjum Sharma, Jira Banjara, Sheikh Wali, Sanchita Choudhary, Himanshu Tyagi, Virendra Chatterjee, Feroze Khan, Sunil Kumar Agrawal, Virender Kumar, Devesh Rawal, Tiger, Chirag Parmar, Nazneen Shaikh, Farzana Ansari, Anupam Shyam, Salim Chaus, Harvinder Kaur, Narendra Singh Bhati, Satya Mudgal, Janet de Vigne, William Relton, David Gilliam, Kinder Singh, Christine Matovich Singh, Thomas Lehmkuhl, Siddesh Patil, Najma Shaikh, Saeeda Shaikh, Alka Satpute, Tabassum Khan, Sitaram Panchal, Nigel Caesar, Ajit Pandey, Kedar Thapar, Amit Leonard, Rajesh Kumar, Sagar Ghopalkar, Pradeep Solanki, Abdul Hamid Shaikh, Dheeraj Waghela, Arfi Lamba, Taira Colah, Varun Bagri, Ankur Tewari, Sarfaraz Khan, Syed Fazal Hussain, Umar Khan, Imran Hasnee, Homai Billimoria, Udayan Baijal, Sandeep Kaul, Rufee Ahmed, Rhea Lawyer, Deepali Dalvi, Anisha Nagar, Farrah Shaikh, Mamta Sharma, Neha M. Khatarawalla, Tanya Singh, Anand Tiwari, Faezeh Jalali, Meghana Jhalani, Rupali Mehra, Anju Singh, Saurabh Agarwal, Mark Boucher, Andre Nel, Yuvraj Singh, Sachin Tendulkar, Amitabh Bachchan
Genre: Drama, Romance
My Review
While the first 2/3 of the movie were fairly interesting, the director really brought the movie together in the final third. I really enjoyed this film as it was so different than any other movie that I can recall.
For those of you that have seen the film, I do have one observation. About halfway through the movie I thought they were going to drop a
“Usual Suspects” ending on us. Think about it: it seems as though they were leading you down a path about how the lead supposedly didn’t cheat on a game show and that his life experiences taught him the answers that he needed to know. I liked the ending that was presented to us but I think that would have been a great one also.
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My Review - 9/10
9/10