Slumdog Milionaire (2008)

Rating: 90%
We all remembered disliking how The Dark Knight wasn't even nominated for Best Picture when it rightfully should have and maybe even won. Which is the reason why we are not able to nominate more then five movies for Best Picture. So let's take a look at the movie that did get nominated and won Best Picture along with a couple of other Oscars: Slumdog Millionaire.

Plot: Eighteen-year-old Jamal Malik is an assistant at a call center who is currently playing an Indian version of Who Want to Be a Millionaire. He is currently a question away from winning the game but before he does, he is currently being interrogated by the police because they suspect him of cheating. But throughout most of the film, Jamal explains to the police that he has conveniently learned the answers from through out his life as he tells his story about him and his brother and a girl he has fallen in love ever since he was a street child.

This was a clever movie. The story is very interesting and well thought of, the characters are nicely developed and the setting seems to be very accurate when it comes to the life that some people in India live(d). Though during the middle of the film I felt+ like not every single answer was explained in terms of how he got them right. I mean most of them are because he actually knows them thanks to his past, but I don't know how he got some of them right. Maybe he was guessing or maybe they did explain it and I just missed it. I don't know which one is the case so I digress over the matter. Slumdog Millionaire was still a very interesting and sometimes suspenseful film for people to enjoy.


Music: I enjoyed the music a lot. I mean the score was very well done and the songs by A. R. Rahman are very well done. I especially enjoy "Jai Ho" because it's just a very light-heated and altogether fun song to sing or just listen to. "Jai Ho" definitely deserved best original score if it couldn't be "Down to Earth" from WALL-E.
 

Editing: The editing was very well done. I did like how it was done when it came to explaining how he knows the answers and all that. And personally, I thought adding some shots of the little kid versions of Jamal and Latika during the end credits when they were playing "Jai Ho" was an adorable touch during that part of the movie.

And that's my review for Slumdog Millionaire. It was a clever movie with an interesting story and some nice characters and while it may not have explained everything, it's still a very fun movie to enjoy.