slumdog millionaire this IS a great movie

slumdog millionaire this IS a great movie
Danny Boyle is one of my favourite directors and I have never seen a bad movie from him yet (and I am including the lightweight fun of A Life Less Ordinary and Millions, make of that what you will). He maintains his 100% record here with this wonderful movie, no surprise considering the critical and commercial success it has had heaped upon it since it's release.
The story itself, as if people don't know, concerns a young "slumdog" from Mumbai called Jamal (played by a few actors but the "starring" role goes to Dev Patel) who is ready to have a go at the final question in India's version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire". But before he is allowed to do this he is hauled away by the authorities and quizzed over his unlikely success: how did he know so many of the answers, how has he been managing to cheat the system, how could he ever manage to do so much better than so many other, more likely, players? The answers to these questions come in flashback form (involving Jamal, his brother Salim and the constant female companion, Latika who is later played by the beautiful Freida Pinto) as we learn how Jamal happened to know the answers to the questions he was given.
Part drama, part love story and part . . . . well . . part riveting quiz show, this movie is best viewed before you hear too much hype about it. It's actually a standard tale, jazzed up with the quiz-show surrounding and the flashback structure. Boyle once again directs with style, marrying some great visuals to some wonderful tunes throughout, and also gets uniformly wonderful performances from everyone acting on screen. And I do mean EVERYONE. From the smallest child to the oldest patriarch, there is nobody here letting the side down.
Is it so deserving of the praise and hype? In many ways it certainly is but it's not the perfect film it has been made out to be. Personally, I found that there were a few gaps in Jamal's knowledge that were not fully explained or given satisfactory explanations. Then there is the relative ease with which Jamal seems to sail through life, narrowly escaping major problem after major problem as he drags himself up from the slum. Remove the trappings and you have a very basic rags to riches story with a romantic sub-plot. It's extremely well done but certainly not the latest "best best best movie ever" it has been marketed as.
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