Written by: Ol Parker
Directed by: John Madden
Starring: Judy Dench, Richard Gere, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Dev Patel, David Strathairn, Celia Imrie, Penelope Wilton, Ronald Pickup, Diana Hardcastle, Lilete Dubey, Tamsin Greig, Tena Desae.
Incredible India Awaits while Life Doesn’t
This movie is a dynamic and definitive drama that has laughing-out-loud and tear-jerking moments. This film is a sensational and sentimental sequel with a stellar cast.
It subtly and not so subtly is a life-affirming movie that shows a change must take place if one is not happy with one’s life. They cover most a vast number of issues concerning emotions such as love, travel, work, age, etc. Again, in a light hearted manner mostly and not when it is needed to make a clear point of live your life now before it is too late and the regrets of some that did not.
This movie could have been better though because the story is great the cast is great yet the script is not so great. The lines are dry and dull. The scenes are pretty clichéd at first making it hard to watch yet knowing this must get better not worse is true. This movie catches up with the story it is trying to tell soon enough and speeds up the pacing to a normal one. Then in the end it is speeded up a bit much with a few sudden surprises.
Then the writing becomes wiser than ever with superb wisdom that’s so subtle to even sense and that’s how great writing is one cannot pin point anything written before and claim it is cheesy or cliché.
The Location cannot be more on point for people in general to want to retire. The dancing and music at the end was the best better than the first couple of times during this movie. India is amazing with such vivid colors that bring vitality and earthy colors that exude energy as well.
Along with the music, plot, writing, acting and most importantly directing the story comes together beautifully. This movie is an advert for good living and good thinking. Equality, love, and respect among numerous other messages are presented in this movie.
As a film with very few errors I give it an 8/10 only because it drags on at the beginning and that would make people automatically misjudge it and harshly criticize it. It did itself a disservice with a few characters that were not needed and made no sense other than unrealistic drama just to make a story where they have enough character with enough stories that can be made and presented about them. That would have been more than enough and more real.
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