Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" hits the ground running. This is a breathless, exciting story, heartbreaking and exhilarating at the same time, about a Mumbai orphan who rises from rags to riches on the strength of his lively intelligence. The film's universal appeal will present the real India to millions of moviegoers for the first time.
Slumdog Millionaire really is gentle compared with, say, Robert Redford's satire Quiz Show and softcore compared with Danny Boyle's famous movies, Trainspotting and Shallow Grave. Patel shines as the honest, striving, good-hearted Jamal, while Pinto gets to be far more than just "the girl." Movie Review. Under pressure, game show contestants lose their minds a little..
Even our worst memories don't have to suffocate us, Danny Boyle says. With Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Saurabh Shukla, Anil Kapoor. A Mumbai teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?". Slumdog Millionaire, incidentally, is co-produced by the film branch of Celador, the company that became famous for creating Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? That's rather as if the Cunard Line. Read the Empire Movie review of Slumdog Millionaire.
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Danny Boyle s finest since Trainspotting. In fact, it s the best British/Indian gameshow-based. MRQE Metric: See what the critics had to say and watch the trailer.
Slumdog Millionaire a happy ending how nice but wait--- so the story starts with a guy at the seat of who wants to be a millionaire show--- this interesting movie explains how anyone know s the answers to the games questions -- and the star has lived his life learning about people places things needed to know the questions A gaudy, gorgeous rush of color, sound and motion, "Slumdog Millionaire" doesn't travel through the lower depths, it giddily bounces from one horror to the next. It's modern India standing in for a world in full economic spin. It's modern India standing in for a. He used real events that had happened and put this story in the middle of all these real life events.