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Black Warrant Web Series Review: Inside Tihar Jail!
Recently, a crime-slash prison drama series has been released on Netflix called Black Warrant. Let me also tell you that this series has a total of 7 episodes, and each episode is between 35 to 50 minutes long. I have watched this series and now I am sharing with you guys whatever good or bad experience I had watching this series through this review. So let's talk about how my experience was after watching this series without wasting any time. So firstly, I will tell you a little about the story of this series. In this series, you will see that it is the era of the 1980s and a young boy Sunil comes to Tihar jail as a jailer with the hope that he will do some good work for the prisoners there and try to improve the system, but it becomes more and more difficult for Sunil to do his work when he comes to know about the corruption, politics and gang war going on in the jail. So, will Sunil be able to face the difficulties and dangers coming in his work or not? To know all this, you will have to watch this series. Now let's talk about how my experience of watching this series was. So, as I have already told you that this is a prison drama series, in this series it has been shown very well how the life of prisoners is in jail or what they are facing, what kind of issues and dangers they face, how different gangs are formed there who are involved in criminal activities while staying in the jail and what kind of challenges and dangers the police face, how the police get involved in corruption, all this has been shown very well in this series. The story of this series is interesting, gripping and intense. It will easily keep you hooked from start to end, and you will like the character of Sunil; you will get to see a good growth and a good change in his character from start to end. The writing of this series is so strong that it makes you emotionally invested in the story. You will also get to see some good, intense killing sequences in this series. And the strongest aspect of this show is the performances of the actors, which are very very good. Every actor has played his character very well, which was good to see.
By Ayush Verma2 years ago in Geeks
Agra Affair Review: Just Another Romantic Cliché
Friends, Jio Cinema, and Amazon MX Player are both the same; they come full of content, but there is no focus on their marketing and promotions. Now under this, another show has come to Amazon MX Player whose name is Agra Affair. How is this show? Let's find out. Well, the Agra Affair is the story of a character named Akash, who manages a hotel that has completely gone downhill, or rather, whose business is running at an absolute loss, but he is running it out of compulsion. Now, here, he enters a girl who wants to help Akash.
By Ayush Verma2 years ago in Geeks
Black Warrant Netflix Review: One-time watchable
So Netflix has dropped its first Indian content of this year which is Black Warrant. Now, how is this show? Does it deserve your time or not? Let's find out. Well, Black Warrant is a crime thriller show whose story has been taken from a novel. Now I haven't read that novel, so I don't know how right or wrong it is. Well, here you get to see the story of Sunil Gupta, who is struggling to get a job. He is not getting a job. Then, in the end, he gets the opportunity to become a jailer. So he thinks let's take this. So he is not so interested in his job but he is thrown into his job. Now what he encounters is a group of people who are criminals. Now, how will he sustain there, and how does the ego system of the jail run? Tihar jail is the most famous. The story is set in 1981. Now, to know what kind of gangs are inside the jail, what kind of gangs have their battles to survive here, and what kind of gangs Sunil Gupta is trying to match up with here, you will have to watch this show, which has seven episodes; its length varies from 45 minutes to 55 minutes. Now, if I review Black Warrant for you in one line, it is a one-time watchable show. Look, if you are expecting from this show that it is Vikramaditya Motwane's show, it is completely out of the box and it will make your mind spin, no, this show has not reached that level, but the show is not bad, if you are a fan of a slow burn kind of show, then definitely there are many moments in this show where you will get to see a very good payoff. Although I have found a lot of shortcomings, let us first talk about some positives. The way the atmosphere of the jail has been captured here is very good. The way there are different kinds of gangs, there is a dominance among them. The way they are controlling the jail. The way they are controlling the prisoners there. The convention with which all these things have been presented here is worth watching. Apart from this, whatever characters have been taken, even if they are small, everyone's acting is quite amazing except one. Now, who is that person? Stay tuned. I will tell you later. The Haryanvi character has acted very well, which means it should have a real feel. Paramvir Cheema is here. He has done a very good job without any doubt. Zahan Kapoor has also done a very good job in Sunil Gupta's character. Apart from this, we get to see Rahul Bhatt. His acting is also very good. Friends, if I talk about the production design, it is good. Apart from that, the music gives a mixed vibe; there are some scenes where the intensity should be at its peak, but it did not reach that point due to the average BGM. In some places, the BGM was quite good, in others it was excellent, and in some places, you heard average BGM. Now, see, the whole atmosphere is set in 1981, and many moments felt repetitive to me, meaning I felt like I was reaching the same place again and again. Apart from this, the problem here was that Sidhant Gupta, who portrayed the character of Charles, did not match that character's accent, gait, and body language. The character of Charles has been portrayed in a movie earlier as well by Randeep Hooda. You see the conventions that are seen there, they were not there at all here, and the same is happening with Sidhant Gupta; he is selecting good characters, but unfortunately, he does not fit into those characters. Freedom At Midnight came when Sidhant Gupta played the role of Jawaharlal Nehru. He did not fit, and the same thing was seen here; he did not fit properly. Apart from this, I felt that the show is sometimes going in a random direction, and it is not getting any special relevance from the main story.
By Ayush Verma2 years ago in Geeks
Kraven The Hunter Ending Explained: Not as Bad as Critics Say
So when we saw Aaron Taylor Johnson running behind a bullet train in the 2022 Bullet Train movie, which he also boarded, at that very moment many of us fans understood that this actor deserves a great role because Aaron Taylor Johnson has already made his mark in superhero movies, first with the role of Quicksilver in Kickass and then Age of Ultron, there was a hype among the fans that Kraven The Hunter will be a great movie. But in the Kraven The Hunter movie, although the performance of the other actors, along with Aaron Taylor Johnson, was good, the movie seemed as if it was broken and put back together. Plus if you remember the first Red Band trailer of the movie, then you will notice in it that Kraven was showing that he can see his prey through animals, whereas this thing was removed from the movie and Joss Whedon, who was handling the direction of the movie, was also saying that he has changed some things in the movie. But what happened was that even with such great casting, such a good director and such great scenes, that thing was missing from the movie. In today's time, writing about a character who is known in comics as the greatest hunter, writing about him as the main protagonist would neither be right nor would it make sense. In comics, Kraven hunts the biggest animals to feel that he is the greatest hunter in this world. Now, here comes the problem with the Bollywood movie Animal. Certain things need to be taken care of while showing the protagonist of any story committing acts of violence. Showing the protagonist engaging in such violence, which is easy to do immediately in day-to-day life, becomes problematic at some point. Similarly, showing violence on animals and that too when the protagonist of the movie is doing this is not right, and this is the story where the origin of Kraven was changed. Kraven, whose name is Sergei Kravinoff, is a drug trafficker who likes hunting and follows only one thing: be strong and never let yourself look weak. Now that is why Sergei does not shoot at a lion while hunting it, but a lion is a lion, the lion injures him completely, and then Calypso gives him a potion which gives him superhuman abilities, and then he hunts the bad people, the bad people who smuggle guns, poach animals and drug traffickers. In simple words, he had become a vigilante who was cleaning up people like his father from the world. Now Sergei's father had made more enemies by calling people weak, among whom was Rhino Aleksei Sytsevich, who became Rhino by conducting some experiments on himself. Now this supernatural part is the problem of this movie. So, Sergei, who is now known as Kraven, had high-end senses; he could run fast, jump high and jump from anywhere. He has many amazing scenes out of which my favourite is when he runs to save his brother. Now, this is the problem: the villains in the movie are Rhino and the other one is Foreigner; both of them have supernatural abilities, and in my opinion, they are some of the strongest villains in any movie. After watching them, only one question came to my mind: how will Kraven defeat them? This was the weak part of the movie: Kraven's interaction with the villains. Kraven has not done anything special to defeat any villain, which would feel like a challenge or something amazing for the protagonist, although, of course, Sony did not give us comic-accurate Kraven, but he was essential here. Kraven was hunting the bad guys with his bare hands, even at the end of the movie, his taking out the bullets before the hunt somehow gives us the essence of that Kraven who wants to be called the apex predator, plus weakness and strength were discussed in the movie but these things were kept superficial only and no sense was made because Sergei's father abandons his mother because according to him she had become weak whereas abandoning someone in their bad times is the biggest weakness in itself and I am surprised that this was not discussed anywhere in the entire movie, plus Kraven's weakness is spiders, which somewhere is connecting this entire movie to the spiderman universe, but what is the benefit. The movie was directed by J.C. Chandor. This director has written one of my favourite films and has also directed it and I would like to recommend it to you as well. That movie is Margin Call, each scene of which cannot be praised enough, and that is why I was somehow interested in this movie as well. Of course, the dialogues were heavy, there was a bit of drama as well, and different locations were chosen very well for shooting, but overall the product felt dull. Although the R rating was used properly, the action scenes in the gore scenes were good, some particular scenes, especially the scene where Sergei saves his brother and the scene of Kraven's attack on the mercenary, were also great, it just seems that the reshoots have had a bad effect, on top of all this, the movie is not landing properly. However, now I would like to talk about the performance of the performers in the movie. There are good actors in this movie. The main lead, Aaron Taylor Johnson's performance was good. His role as Kraven was built well where, in the end, when he wears a lion skin vest, it seems that, yes, the future of this character can be great. But as Sony has announced that Kraven The Hunter is the last instalment from the Sony Sideman universe, obviously, now there is no scene for Kraven, not even for Chameleon. Fred Hechinger has played this role, and his journey of becoming Chameleon was great, but there is no future for him either. Even the performance of Alessandro Nivola, who played the role of rhino, was good. Recently his interview also revealed that he enjoyed playing this role, so it is good to know this as well. Overall, it would not be wrong to say that the cast of this movie has given their 100 per cent. So, at the end of the movie, it was clear that Kraven's father used him to kill his enemy, for which Kraven showed them real hunting, but Kraven, i.e. Sergei's brother has taken his father's place and is now involved in drug trafficking business, which is bad for Sergei because first of all, he is his brother and secondly, he now has some powers, Chameleon powers. Chameleon is a powerful Spiderman villain who gave a tough time to Spiderman in the comics. Above all, there was also a discussion about a New York scientist who gave Rhino his powers and made Dimitri a Chameleon. This New York scientist is Dr. Miles Warren, who is known by the name of Jackal. He is also a very powerful Spiderman villain who came to take away Spiderman's identity in the clone saga, due to which Spiderman's memories were erased and new memories were inserted, in which Spiderman started roaming the world as Ben Riley and brought back Scarlet Spider. So, maybe Sony must be planning to bring Jackal in the future, because why would the name of the same scientist be taken twice in the movie? Chameleon's entry into crime was also setting him up in the future as the next Spiderman villain but in the Sony Spiderman universe, we will get everything except Spiderman, so now that Sony has recently said that they are ending the Sony Spiderman universe, it remains to be seen what will be Sony's next move regarding the Spiderman character. Overall, I would also like to say that the movie is not as bad as critics have labelled it, and this is also visible in the audience score of 74 for this movie.
By Ayush Verma2 years ago in Geeks
American Primeval Review: How Netflix’s Bold Western Outshines Kevin Costner’s HORIZON
American Primeval on Netflix takes a no-nonsense, brutal approach to the Western genre, offering viewers a raw, violent, and chaotic depiction of the American frontier. Directed by Peter Berg and created by Mark L. Smith, the mini-series steps away from the nostalgic sheen of most Westerns and instead dives into the darker realities of 1857 America. With themes of survival, violence, and the human cost of expansion, this show might just have what it takes to stand out in the crowded Western genre post-Yellowstone.
By Rahul Rawat2 years ago in Geeks
Once Upon a Time, 1500 Years ago... a Love-Hate Story Began (Bonus Watchlist included)
Korean Drama Review: Moon in the Day (2023) - A Viki Original Series Based on a Webtoon Once upon a time, about 1500 years ago … a love-hate-revenge-love story began and the lovers ended up in modern-day South Korea. Will we finally know the rest of their story?
By Treathyl Fox (aka cmoneyspinner)2 years ago in Geeks
Babes
Smaller productions have been able to tell some incredible stories this year, among them being NEON productions which has just been cranking them out. One of the films that NEON produced this year is called Babes. I was excited to see this one because it seemed slightly less intense then some of the other movies they produced this year and I was excited for a comedy.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
