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Slumdog Millionaire

2008 Directed by Danny Boyle

What does it take to find a lost love? A. Money, B. Luck, C. Smarts, D. Destiny

Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.

Dev Patel Freida Pinto Anil Kapoor Mia Drake Inderbitzin Saurabh Shukla Rajendranath Zutshi Irrfan Khan Jeneva Talwar Ayush Mahesh Khedekar Mahesh Manjrekar Sanchita Choudhary Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar Anand Tiwari Tanay Chheda

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Review by yush ½ 9

didn’t actually rewatch this bc tbh id rather die than do that but im gonna use this as a platform for some Serious Thoughts anyway that go way beyond just this particular movie... ill totally come clean here i think a half star review of slumdog millionaire is gonna catch more ppl’s eyes than not lol

i really want ppl to read this bc again ill be honest here: im a person of color with some shit to say and im not gonna be quiet anymore. this is not something i've seen addressed by many people on this site so i'm gonna take it upon myself to play the vocal minority. also i promise this will be less ranty than…
Review by ScreeningNotes ★★★★ 11

"Money and women: the reasons for make most mistakes in life. Looks like you've mixed up both."

And the Oscar for best end-credits sequence goes to... Wait, Best Picture? Like, for the whole year? I mean, it was good, and I understand Speed Racer never had a chance at the award, but this is the year that gave us WALL-E and Synecdoche, New York, surely they're more impressive than—they weren't even nominated? Come on people, get it together!

Slumdog Millionaire is a movie which strangely doesn't understand its own material. It opens with the question:

Jamal Malik is one question away from winning 20 million rupees. How did he do it?
A: He cheated
B: He's lucky
C: He's a…
Review by Cohaagen's Heir ★½ 49

D - Over-rated. Final answer.

Let me get this straight...I'm supposed to empathize with a kid who answers all these questions based on sheer luck? Fat chance. I want the heroes of my stories to work hard, persevere, struggle at every turn, and fight for victory...not succeed easily just by chance. Fuck that, and fuck this movie.
Review by kevinyang ★★ 23

A day ago I thought The King's Speech was the worst Best Picture winner of the last decade.
Review by kennedy ★★★★

hello? yes, i'd like to report a crime. dev patel is the most beautiful boy i've ever seen...excuse me what do you mean that isn't a crime? i've been attacked
Review by Thomas McCallum ★★★ 4

Performances : 6.8/10
Story : 6.6/10
Production : 5.5/10
Overall : 6.3/10

I only vaguely remember watching Trainspotting but Trance was one of my favorite films to be released last year so needless to say I was pretty exciting to take a trip back to 2008 and visit Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire. My tapered expectations were left unanswered. Ignore all those Academy Awards and (for what it's worth) it's high IMDB rating, Slumdog is a two hour bag of wind slowly blowing itself all the way into it's tired, predictable ending.

Forget the pacing issues, my big beef with this film was the method in which it told its story. Flashbacks are nothing new, and when done correctly they can…

Recent reviews

Review by John ★★★★½

D: It is written

I just love this film so much
Review by Tata ★★★★

I rewatched it and now I remember how I liked this movie so much. such a solid & compact movie. did this leave me breathless? bloody yes. but I still don't get it how it won best picture though.
Review by Ethan L ★★★★

This was pretty great. This movie had a really compelling story, and it was told in a very unique way. The main child actors were actually really good, a lot of the movie was focused on them and it turned out really well. Also, amazing cinematography. Another great Danny Boyle movie that I hadn't seen until now.
Review by DarkKeys7 ★★★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Imagine choice B got eliminated in the 50-50 lifeline... The look on those guys' faces would be worth about 20 million rupees.
Review by Basak ★★★★½

I can't believe I haven't watched this before I'm so ashamed of myself
Review by Nam Lê ★★★★★

Điện ảnh biến những giấc mơ trở thành sự thực và đem lại cảm hứng trong từng khoảnh khắc nó truyền tải. Với một cái kết viên mãn bù đắp cho toàn bộ khổ đau trải dài... và như những gì bộ phim truyền tải. Tất cả là định mệnh.
Review by Phillip_D ★★½ 3

The movie was just kind of all over the place with wild music choices and constant jumps in time. It was also really repetitive going from having the girl to losing the girl to answering a question and then repeating. I only really felt for the main character, and even then it wasn’t really that much. The pacing also just felt really odd.
Review by ira ★★½ 2

i really really want to like it ..
Review by Addison ★★

Decided to give this a rewatch to maybe give it some justification for why I had it at 1 Star.

It gained one more star from the rewatch. Simply because I do appreciate it more now but still not as much as I’d like.

Still Clunky, bland, overall unenjoyable to me.
Felt like it was made to have a “sort of” sense humor and to give a tug to the heart strings but it did none of this for me. Plus, blend it with a tiresome story and this all left me with a sense of wasting my time watching this.