Assassins Creed II ( PC Game )

Review By : Amiya Ranjan Chakraborty

Assassin's Creed 2 Requirements:

Processor: Dual core processor 2.6 GHz Intel® Pentium® D or AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 3800+ (Intel Core® 2 Duo 2.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ or better recommended)

RAM: 2 GB Windows XP / 2 GB Windows Vista

Video Card: 256 MB DirectX® 10.0-compliant video card or DirectX 9.0-compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher

Sound Card: DirectX 9.0 or 10.0-compliant sound card (5.1 sound card recommended)

DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0 or 10.0 libraries

Hard Drive Space: 12GB

Assassins Creed II is probably one of the best games of 2009. Assassin's Creed 2 is a much better game than its predecessor for one thing, it's actually a complete game, possessing a beginning, a middle, and an end. The story is very interesting from the begining to the end. There are a bunch of eagle feathers to collect and hieroglyphics of Subject 16 to scan. There are hours of side missions. Not to mention tons of shops to visit and viewpoints to synchronize.The gameplay and graphics are awesome and the best part is that you don't need a monster gaming rig to play this game. Overall, this game rocks

The Good :

1.Awesome Graphics and Gameplay

2.System Requirements are not very high.


Bottomline :

1.All your saves will be stored on UBIsoft DRM server, you need a constant internet connection to save your game progress.

My Rating 9/10

The Crazies

Review By : Amiya Ranjan Chakraborty

WHAT A CRAP

I am a huge fan of zombies movies, I liked almost every zombie movies no matter how bad they were, except this one. This is one of the worst zombie movie I have ever seen. After seeing the first 20 minutes I thought this is going to be a good movie but unfortunately I was wrong.

The plot begins when residents of Ogden Marsh begins to turn into violent psychopaths due to some toxin by drinking from the town's water supply which has been contaminated after a government plane crashed into the small town's water pit. And Sheriff David Duttonhis his wife, and two other unaffected townspeople band together in a fight for survival.

About 15-20 minutes into this quickly paced film, it's not just the zombified people the main characters need to worry about; an army of people brought in from the powers that be to exterminate all the infected people come and shoot people dead instead of taking the time to see who's sick and who's fine.

Plus, the film never really stops to flesh itself out. Sure, there's small attempts at speeches about why townspeople are being killed off if they have the disease or not -- but certainly not enough to make me feel any bit of consequence.

My Rating: 3/10

Law Abiding Citizen

Review By : Amiya Ranjan Chakraborty

ENDING COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER

I have no words to describe this movie; probably this is one of the best movie I have ever seen. My elder brother gave this movie and I had no idea what is this about, but this movie made my day. This movie proves that a good horror movie does not has to have hardcore violence and gore to get attention, a perfectly written script and good direction could do it.

The story begins when a man who returns ten years after his wife and daughter are brutally murdered to take revenge from the assistant district attorney who prosecuted the case against their killers. His vengeance threatens not only the man who allowed mercy to supersede justice, but also the system and the city that made it so.

Though I still think that the ending could have been better. I just don’t understand why the Hollywood movies has to have happy ending. I would have been much better if either Jamie Foxx’s wife or his daughter would have killed by Gerard Butler.

My Rating: 7/10

The Midnight Meat Train

Review By : Amiya Ranjan Chakraborty

THE ENDING RUINS IT

After I saw the trailers I was very excited to watch this movie but eventually I was very disappointed. The story starts of well but at the end it became lame. "Midnight Meat Train" is the story of a photographer who wants to capture the real heart of New York City. A chance encounter with a model who's being threatened by some hoods in a subway station leads to his discovery and eventual obsession with what appears to be a serial killer who finds his victims on the late-night trains.

The story became horrible at the end, I was hoping it was some mad killer, some psychotic person obsessed with cannibalism. No. It was some secret society keeping creatures alive for centuries. Woo. How original. How unrealistic. How dull.

The acting was horrible, and the characters unbelievable.

My Rating: 4/10

College Road Trip

Review By : Amiya Ranjan Chakraborty

GOOD FAMILY MOVIE

First of all I am a huge huge fan of Raven Symone, and I loved her Disney channel serial "THAT'S SO RAVEN" and her previous two big hit movies CHEETAH GIRLS 1 and 2.

This movie is about an overachieving seventeen year old girl named Melanie Porter. She plans a girls only road trip- but then her overprotective father insists on joining her so that he can make sure she goes to the close-to-home college, Northwestern. Of course, that follows with hilarious adventures.

Though this movie got very low rating on IMDB, I personally think it's a very funny and entertaining movie. It wasn't as funny as I thought it would be but it was funny enough for me. It may not be a great movie but definitely not as horrible as it has been rated on IMDB. Martin Lawrence is also one of my favourite actor and he has done a great job in this movie. This movie contain clean humour and doesn't look to sex and vulgarity like other comedy movies usually have, which makes it a good family movie.

And for IMDB critics those who have rated this movie low seriously meet your psychiatrist. Because either you a problem with your humor gene or u are mentally sick.

My Rating: 8/10

Orphan

Review By : Amiya Ranjan Chakraborty

OFF THE HOOK

Horror is my favorite movie genre. First I thought Orphan is going to be another typical horror movie, but I was dead wrong, as the film progressed I realized that this was quite a well made masterpiece.. It relies heavily on suspence rather than gore. Though There are a few gory deaths in the movie.

This movie is ballsy, not afraid at all to take risks or make you feel completely hopeless. I had no idea what was going to happen next at any turn in this movie, everything was shot in the dark and masterfully suspenseful. And yeah, of course the kid is evil, but she's built up in a way that makes you like her and feel sorry for her at first - something that even a good movie like Omen didn't do.


The acting is well-done. Vera Farmiga plays the no-nonsense mother. Peter Sarsgaard plays the clueless, loving father. Isabelle Fuhrmann plays the orphaned girl, and was really creepy. Specially the acting Isabelle Fuhrmann who playes the role of the girl was just off the hook.

Overall, if you are a gore hound, you will be a little dissatisfied. If you are a horror fan who doesn't care about scar face ghost or gory deaths and poorly edited horror flicks then u love this.

My Rating: 9/10

3 Idiots

Review By :Amiya Ranjan Chakraborty

3 idiots is a masterpiece and is one of the greatest bollywood movies of all time. I have never seen a hindi film being so funny. I think all the actors have done a great job. The best thing about this movie is that it is extremely funny.

Aamir was brilliant in most of the scenes but in some scenes I felt he tried too hard to come out as a youngster. Madhavan and Sharman were equally good. Boman's character took some time to get accustomed to but he did a great job of convincing you with his accent and the way of talking.

One more thing that I like the most that this movie present the sad scenes with a humor in it and the best part of this movie is that this is not a typical romantic hindi movie.

For :

1. Very very funny movie.
2. Superb acting by all actors.
3. Not a typical hindi romantic movie.

Bottomline:

1. Delivery with a vacuum cleaner that is just too much.
2. Songs are not very good.

My Rating: 8/10

2012

Review From : Amiya Ranjan Chakraborty

I was really looking forward to seeing this movie because I was hoping to see all of humanity wiped out. Considering what we've done to each other and the Earth, this is the least of the many punishments we deserve.

Though the movie has some mind blowing special effects but they screw up with the story, none of the 'hero's' in this film really showed any real emotions.The action sequences are so unbelievable that your intelligence is insulted, and the acting is so unrealistic that you can't relate to any of the characters. Even though there are a lot of fancy special effects to look at, it's a boring movie because the characters are so obviously fictional that you just don't care if they live or die....

Fun Factors:-

1.An amature pilot who hardly know how to fly a plane is able to fly a big boing Russian plane...HOW PATHETIC

2.Cellphones still get signals despite all the disasters happening.

3.The world is being destructed, the broadcasting system still functions well and is fully manned.

My Rating : 4/10

G.I.Joe Rise Of The Cobra

Review From : Amiya Ranjan Chakraborty

I probably enjoyed this movie more than someone who didn't know much about the G I Joe universe before watching this. It reminds me lot of the children cartoon I enjoyed so much when I was a kid. In this movie the action is non-stop with lots of fighting, shooting, car chase, explosions etc- and also has a pritty decent special effects too.There is some good acting in this movie, mostly from the villains.

Despite its many flaws the movie is still at least watchable.

Bottomline :

1.The story Starts well but the ending was horrible.

2.Changes were made to characters that were unnecessary.

3.Good special effects wasted on a poor story.

My Rating : 5/10