Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

Agent Ethan Hunt is back with his team for yet another "Impossible" mission. This time he faces a highly secretive international syndicate of special agents. However, this time there is no IMF (Impossible Mission Force) to back him up. The IMF has been disbanded and Ethan himself has been declared a fugitive by the CIA. Ilsa Faust, a disowned British secret agent comes to his rescue. But can Ethan trust Ilsa?

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation has all the ingredients which made earlier installments successful. High octane plot, unbelievable stunts, suspense,  story hopping from one country to another. There is hardly anything which Tom Cruise can't do. If the Burj Khalifa sequence in MI4 left you speechless, the shot in the opening sequence of Rouge Nation where Tom Cruise hangs from a airplane is going to send chills through your spine. It's hard to believe that Tom Cruise is not anymore in 20s or 30s, but a 53-year old man. Even Rebecca Fergusson as Ilsa Faust has not left any stone unturned and matched toe to toe with Tom Cruise. The bike chase sequence though the mountain terrains is just terrific.

My Rating : 7/10

Sweet, Brutal Revenge ?

"I'm not real big on repentance ... I like revenge better." 

Badlapur is a dark and cold tale of grief, anger, desire, wait and revenge. One can easily draw parallels with the Argentinian thriller The Secret in Their Eyes (2009). The elements of surprise interwoven in the script keep you on your toes. Sriram Raghavan had made a promising debut with Ek Hasina Thi (though grossly inspired from Double Jeopardy) , but lost the track  with Agent Vinod which was a complete disaster. Now, with Badlapur  he seems to have rediscovered the recipe of a revenge thriller. 

The world is not all good or bad. Everyone has that shade of grey. The thing you love the most, can turn you into a monster. Revenge becomes the sole purpose of life and you begin to see it as the only way find solace from agony of  loss. But, is it truth contrary to the belief ? Is the revenge as comforting as the victim perceives it to be? 

Badlapur starts with a bank robbery where the protagonist's (is he ?), essayed by Varun Dhawan, wife (Yami Gautam) and child are killed by the robbers. One of the robbers, Liak (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), is caught by the police. But his accomplice (Vinay Pathak) manages to flee with the loot money. Hoping to one day lead a good life with his love Jhimli (Huma Qureshi), a prostitute, he refuses to name his partner in crime. He is sentenced to 20 years in prison. But, is the judicial punishment enough to soothe Raghav's (Varun Dhawan) wounds?

Rush to the nearby multiplex to find out more !!

My rating : 7/10