Amir Khan - A Work In Progress DVD

Advantages: A beautiful story
Disadvantages: much of the film is subtitled

...I was lucky enough to catch this film by chance on my flight home from Canada last month. I had never heard of or read the book, so I feel unable to comment on whether it is true to the original story, but as a stand alone film I can summarise in one word: WOW. What a story! The Film follows the story of two young friends (Hassan and Amir) in Afghanistan. They have a knack for kite competitions, Hassan is one of the be best kite runners; hence the name of the film. Amir and his father are wealthy and Hassan and his father are their servants. Hassan is bullied by other boys and Amir feels unable to stick up for him. Hassan and Amir grow apart, and eventually Hassan and his father feel they need to leave. Around this time Afghanistan is taken over by the Russians, and then the Taliban - Amir and his father escape to America. Amir meets... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: Special Effects
Disadvantages: Story, Acting, Directing

...I'm basing this on the Region 1 DVD, which is virtually identical to the Region 2 DVD when it comes to content. To me Nemesis gets worse each time I see it. And thus I don't like to rewatch it very often. The characters are not written consistently, the plot progresses from one contrivance to the next until you're left with an action-packed mess that bears no resemblance to Star Trek. The movie was written by John Logan, who has the tendency to "borrow" things that work in other movies and put them into his own scripts. Well you will find many rips from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan in this movie. And none of them work as well as they did in Wrath of Khan, which is partially due to the performances of the cast, and partly due to the directing. I cannot recommend buying this movie at all, but I know many Trek fans will just... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Overall the plot was quite clever
Disadvantages: The leads could have been better cast

...much at all and comes across as almost dumb, but as the film progresses we get to see him open up and even start to feel some affection for Arjun and make comments about not wanting to kill him but that he'd have to when push came to shove. His character is actually quite endearing (when you forget that he's a cold blooded killer) and I found him very amusing and very easy to watch. He was very shy and nervous around women and his social skills (or lack of them) were a real issue for himself as you see him throughout the film trying to overcome this. Feroz Khan was only mildly threatening as Jehangir Khan, the supposed big time don. I think he played the character for laughs more than for the menacing aspect one would have expected this character to be. There's a scene where Feroz and Fardeen Khan meet in a lift and Khan Senior makes... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful