Slumdog Millionaire (2008) 8/10

Starring : Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal
Director : Danny Boyle & Loveleen Tandan
Running Time : 121 mins

When Jamal Malik (Patel) wins Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, he is accused by the producers of somehow cheating to know the answers. As he explains how he happens to know the answers, events from his life unfold to show just how he came across this particular knowledge, and also how he came to be on the game show in the first place.

This is a solid fell-good movie that cleverly moves back and forth through time to prove that Jamal is telling the truth. The cast are very good on the whole, but I do get the feeling that this shouldn’t have won the Best Picture Oscar as there was nothing outstanding about it and it didn’t effect me emotionally. Granted I’ve so far only seen one of the other nominees, The Reader, but I thought this was much better than Slumdog. I’ll be watching the rest of the nominees in the coming weeks, so let’s see if they're better too.

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