KEVINROSHEN
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Lokah is a successful confluence of fervent storytelling and brilliant technical filmmaking. The audience along with the characters get thrust into a surreal fray where fact meets fiction and reality converges with myth. The narrative is set around the titular character of Chandra who most certainly isn't what meets the eye and conceals an arcane past. Who or What is she ? Who's she with or against ? How and when does ground reality merge with tales of lore. How do the other characters gel into this cacophony? All these queries and a bit more form the basic crux.
The film presents the world-within to the audience by recounting legends familiar via folk lores and juxtaposing them with characters from the modern time thereby encapsulating both wonder and nostalgia. Filmmaking prowess of the crew is in full display with alluring visuals and enthralling background score, supported by strong writing and entertaining action set pieces. The cast also does commendable jobs with their roles. The film throughout keeps everyone wanting more from this tale and the third act and climax leaves the audience into hoping for further chapters.
The final fight of the penultimate action piece involving the main character should have been done better with more robust editing and better camera angling considering the ones before were better executed. The closure to a sub plot felt rushed. The humour in this film though doesn't feel forced is plenty, considering the serious undertone the story otherwise aims to put forth .
Also the film for some reason is presented in the aspect ratio of 1:90:1 which thereby pillarboxes the film in most screens outside of Flat and Digital IMAX ones. Considering this film doesn't have an IMAX rendering ,and that flat screens are so few in the region, this presentation felt unaccounted for. Albeit; this film definitely warrants a Cinema Theater experience.
The film presents the world-within to the audience by recounting legends familiar via folk lores and juxtaposing them with characters from the modern time thereby encapsulating both wonder and nostalgia. Filmmaking prowess of the crew is in full display with alluring visuals and enthralling background score, supported by strong writing and entertaining action set pieces. The cast also does commendable jobs with their roles. The film throughout keeps everyone wanting more from this tale and the third act and climax leaves the audience into hoping for further chapters.
The final fight of the penultimate action piece involving the main character should have been done better with more robust editing and better camera angling considering the ones before were better executed. The closure to a sub plot felt rushed. The humour in this film though doesn't feel forced is plenty, considering the serious undertone the story otherwise aims to put forth .
Also the film for some reason is presented in the aspect ratio of 1:90:1 which thereby pillarboxes the film in most screens outside of Flat and Digital IMAX ones. Considering this film doesn't have an IMAX rendering ,and that flat screens are so few in the region, this presentation felt unaccounted for. Albeit; this film definitely warrants a Cinema Theater experience.
To put it subtly, it's bloody brilliant.
Based upon a series of Danish Novels by Jussi Adler- Olsen, this British Adaptation follows hotshot Scottish Police Officer DCI Carl Morck who finds himself in an excruciating point of his career and life when an inadvertent foray into a crime scene precipitates into a calamitous circumstance wherein his colleague and close friend gets handicapped, a rookie officer gets killed and he himself gets injured.
Post recovery he joins back but with a large baggage of guilt checked in with him. He gets his next assignment when he is entrusted upon a new Department which operates independently within the Force and whose singular objective is to solve cases which have yet to reach any closure .To assist him in this peril is the meticulous 'Policeman' Akram Salim, a Syrian refugee who's a novice to Britain's law enforcement ,but certainly not to the policing ways. They are further assisted by DC Rose who comes across more able and integral than what she initially seems to be and also by the bedridden fomer colleague of Morck, James Hardy.
The first case the new Department sets out to resolve is the disappearance of Merrit Lingard, a public prosecutor for the Crown who has her own enemies and hurdles. Whether they are successful in finding her, how the team goes about doing the same whilst each member navigates their own personal differences and turmoils form the crux.
The show and characters are written very well and plays out with the same conviction. The pacing can be testing for some , but the culmination is very rewarding. The best part of the show is inarguably the banter between the witty, efficient and narcissist Morck, and Akram who matches him in the efficiency and more. The actors comfortably pull off their respective characters. The dialogues are well written and with enough humor to give plenty joyous moments amidst the tense narrative. The geographic setting of the show provides for quite a number of captivating frames .
The writing is equal measures perturbing and poignant leading to a perpetual acclimatisation with the characters and to their world which make the viewers wanting for further chapters of their lives post the credit roll in the finale.
My Rating 8.7/10.
Based upon a series of Danish Novels by Jussi Adler- Olsen, this British Adaptation follows hotshot Scottish Police Officer DCI Carl Morck who finds himself in an excruciating point of his career and life when an inadvertent foray into a crime scene precipitates into a calamitous circumstance wherein his colleague and close friend gets handicapped, a rookie officer gets killed and he himself gets injured.
Post recovery he joins back but with a large baggage of guilt checked in with him. He gets his next assignment when he is entrusted upon a new Department which operates independently within the Force and whose singular objective is to solve cases which have yet to reach any closure .To assist him in this peril is the meticulous 'Policeman' Akram Salim, a Syrian refugee who's a novice to Britain's law enforcement ,but certainly not to the policing ways. They are further assisted by DC Rose who comes across more able and integral than what she initially seems to be and also by the bedridden fomer colleague of Morck, James Hardy.
The first case the new Department sets out to resolve is the disappearance of Merrit Lingard, a public prosecutor for the Crown who has her own enemies and hurdles. Whether they are successful in finding her, how the team goes about doing the same whilst each member navigates their own personal differences and turmoils form the crux.
The show and characters are written very well and plays out with the same conviction. The pacing can be testing for some , but the culmination is very rewarding. The best part of the show is inarguably the banter between the witty, efficient and narcissist Morck, and Akram who matches him in the efficiency and more. The actors comfortably pull off their respective characters. The dialogues are well written and with enough humor to give plenty joyous moments amidst the tense narrative. The geographic setting of the show provides for quite a number of captivating frames .
The writing is equal measures perturbing and poignant leading to a perpetual acclimatisation with the characters and to their world which make the viewers wanting for further chapters of their lives post the credit roll in the finale.
My Rating 8.7/10.
Curtains roll, and we see the ever familiar font associated with the Dino Franchise .
Cue the prelude, and we have the 'Park Worker getting skewered by the gnarly teeth' scene .
Title card appears, and we know template is followed to the T.
Jurassic Rebirth is exactly what we have come to expect from the franchise since Richard Attenborough ushered in the first visitors. Loud Roars, Big Teeths, Bigger Screams.
We know who's the antagonist, We know who's going to get gobbled up next, We know who's going to survive to see the sunrise.
The reason of wanting to go back where obvious death looms becoming more absurd with every film , we know how the story is going to pan out.
And yet there is an enjoyment lingering amidst all these 'We Knows'. The joy in seeing the dinosaurs again on the big screen. The anticipation of seeing characters survive the gargantuan creatures. The fulfilment of hearing the John Williams score play out again.
We have been there and seen it all. Yet the runtime doesn't feel stretched nor redundant.
Film caters well to an audience expecting a no brainer. 140 so minutes of inane entertainment. Best to watch the big birds in a big screen with big speakers. 3D rendering was unnecessary, as its devoid of any such effects .
My Rating - 6.9/10.
Cue the prelude, and we have the 'Park Worker getting skewered by the gnarly teeth' scene .
Title card appears, and we know template is followed to the T.
Jurassic Rebirth is exactly what we have come to expect from the franchise since Richard Attenborough ushered in the first visitors. Loud Roars, Big Teeths, Bigger Screams.
We know who's the antagonist, We know who's going to get gobbled up next, We know who's going to survive to see the sunrise.
The reason of wanting to go back where obvious death looms becoming more absurd with every film , we know how the story is going to pan out.
And yet there is an enjoyment lingering amidst all these 'We Knows'. The joy in seeing the dinosaurs again on the big screen. The anticipation of seeing characters survive the gargantuan creatures. The fulfilment of hearing the John Williams score play out again.
We have been there and seen it all. Yet the runtime doesn't feel stretched nor redundant.
Film caters well to an audience expecting a no brainer. 140 so minutes of inane entertainment. Best to watch the big birds in a big screen with big speakers. 3D rendering was unnecessary, as its devoid of any such effects .
My Rating - 6.9/10.
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