Captain America - The Winter Soldier

This is packed with very short bursts of inventive action, but it is also exactly what we expect from Marvel now and, as such, this is the first film in its catalogue that doesn't feel particularly fresh or exciting.

My biggest problem lay with the main character himself? Captain America is frankly quite a boring lead - Chris Evans still lends the role deft touches of humour alongside the credibility needed.

5

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Interesting sets, beautifully locations, wooden characters. Too much of the story takes places in trains, a prison and the countryside. I really wish more of the plot had taken place in the hotel.

Following a confusing beginning (there is a double flashback), the story took off without any real direction or reason. When the movie ended, my feeling was "is that it?" All the ingredients were there but the cake didn't rise.

Still, I'm not sorry I saw the movie. It was different and that's always refreshing in a time of cookie-cutter plots.

7

Non-Stop

The movie starts out interestingly enough, but the second and third act just take on more and more preposterous aspects. The one dimensional and clichéd characters sure don't help either!

Liam Neeson is his usual competent self, and you can see that he enjoys making these movies and this late-in-life action hero status! Good, because it is well deserved! At 61 years young, to still be able to put your body through the rigours of an action movie, more power to him! Liam Neeson is not the problem, the problem is that everything else in this movie fails him and the viewers.

And climax was really odd and weird and really underscores the low quality of this movie's script, direction, casting and everything else.

5.5

300 Rise of an Empire

I found the story to be entertaining. The backstory of some old and some new characters were interesting to watch. The events which take place after 300 were awesome and led to some great battle scenes.

Rise has some equally fantastic naval battle scenes. Ships wrecks, beheadings, one on ones, and battles were all awesome and entertaining. Eva Green as Artemisia was amazing. She was terrifying at times and great fun to watch.

The ending of the movie was satisfying; could there be a 3rd installment?

A very entertaining movie, especially since I was lucky to be able to watch them both back to back in IMAX 3D.

8

Highway

The movie portrays two persons aggrieved with the happenings in their life coming together incidentally and search for freedom and peace in their own way. Alia Bhatt and Randeep Hooda are excellent.

The movie falls a little to the wayside in the second half, but then ends on a high.

Cinematography is excellent and is refreshing to see a different type of love for a change.

7