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| Year of first release: 2010 | |
| Director: Jennifer Chambers Lynch (Boxing Helena, Chained) |
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| Actors: Mallika Sherawat, Irrfan Khan (Slumdog Millionaire), Jeff Doucette | |
| Country: IND, USA | |
| Genre: Horror, Thriller | |
| Conditions of visioning: 16.02.2014, Blu-ray, Home cinema, French dubbing. | |
| Synopsis: In the hope of curing his brain cancer, George States (Doucette) awakes a snake Goddess that takes human form (Sherawat) and leaves dead bodies in her trail. | |
| Review: For her third movie as director the daughter of David Lynch (Dune, Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks) accepted to shot a movie in India about a local legendary snake-woman. I learned about it when watching the making-of documentary Despite the Gods (reviewed here) at the Motelx 2013 festival in Lisbon. As Lost in La Mancha did for Terry Gilliam, Despite the Gods show you the amount of trouble she went through to try and get the movie done, and eventually gave up (it was finished without her). And like Terry Gilliam, you learn that the trouble is partly due to her special strong character. So what remains in the movie is a strange mix: some beautiful images in terms of color and framing (presented in a nice Blu-ray copy that I luckily found for cheap in France, but with only the awful french dubbing), next to cheap dialogs and special effects (for some reason all the snakes in the movie are made of rubber for the worst effect), poor editing and an especially bad soundtrack. Also remains a very sexy Mallika Sherawat who is often artistically naked and making love with a snake in a disturbingly crude manner for an Indian film. It took me several attempts to watch the movie in its whole, which says a lot about the boredom it creates. |
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Rating: 1 /10
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I watched the Bluray on 18.05.2014. The fact that men beating their wives have to pay for was nice, espcially in India where these kind of murders make often the headlines. The acting of Irrfan Khan, great actor of Lunch box, is good even if he does not have much to do, such as Mallika Sherawat, who seems to have been used only for the beauty of her body. Indeed many points from the directing are really bad: actions on the picture, acting, SFX, face of the goddess cobra. I did not sleep in front of it. The character of the step mother of Irrfan Khan is funny. In the bonus there is a trailer showing scenes that have not been kept in the movie. As if the work would have been butched up. I could have given a 2/10.
ReplyDeleteI am astonished you found the courage to watch this movie after the bad review I wrote about it!
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