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I love this movie so much

The Worst Film Ever

Excellent but underrated film

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This is a total ripoff of, well lets see.. Men in Black for one.. its almost the exact same story line. Seasoned cop is awaken to a new reality to perform in a similar capacity yet, in an outside the box reality....hmm. I could also argue that it rips off Back to the Future, The Matrix, Pirates of the Caribbean etc etc, It could have worked if the punch lines weren't so horrible. This was worse than the green Lantern. So bad. Oh Wait, Beetlejuice did the whole the afterlife is like an office scene first too.. why didn't they get Michael Keaton at the front of the line alreadyAnd dare I say they enter the realm of the awful The Frighteners where the outer world mixes with MJFs reality world.It's obvious they just took a lot of components from everything else and added the Green lantern to make it something more.Redbox, all the way.

A very different Indian film that I'm used to seeing. Small, personal, quirky, funny, and sometimes quite touching, it follows a young man using the excuse of driving his uncle's ancient Chevy truck across the desert as a way to get away from having to continue on with his father's hair oil business. Of course, along the way, he gathers friends and enemies, and learns a host of lessons about life, love, poverty and what it means to be a man. While it was fun to see this familiar story in such a different cultural context, it is still a familiar story, at times too familiar. There were also moments where the delicate blend of humor and reality didn't quite work - dangerous situations solved too cutely, complex relationships wrapped up in a few moments, important social issues touched on, but not explored.Still, this is beautifully photographed, well acted, enjoyable and a very human movie, that also shows the world-wide power of film (on the truck are projectors and old films that serve our hero more than once). Not quite a great film, but a charming, well made, and heart-felt one that's well-worth catching.

Dev Benegal's 2009 film was premiered on Channel 4, where I saw it. Radio Times, in their lazy and scant review, described it as 'plays out like an Indian Cinema Paradiso set in the deserts of Rajasthan', which is only partly true.Almost nothing can stand up to Cinema Paradiso, that being in my top 5 films of all time, but Road, Movie certainly has its charms. The centrepiece is a colourful, ageing truck that is also a mobile cinema. This van is the ticket to freedom for Vishnu, a restless young man, who wishing to escape being sucked into his father's hair oil business (yes, this is a gentle comedy) and he has a buyer for it; a museum in a town by the sea.To get there, he treks across the desert (gravelly, but still tough) and his journey and the characters he meets, including the mechanic called upon very early (it HAD to be a temperamental van!) who becomes the projectionist and general fixer-up of everything. There's also a young lad, a runaway urchin. These two could be seen as the Philip Noiret character and the boy in Cinema Paradiso. Then a visually striking gypsy woman, who becomes a romantic distraction for Vishnu, is picked up when they run out of water and she has some.Bollywood films are the most watched in the world, apparently and so obviously various flicks are shown in sprawling communities, projected onto the walls of dwellings and such.Shot in deeply saturated colour and looking very attractive, it's not a deep, meaningful film but a nicely distracting, accessible one, nostalgic about long strips of celluloid and the joy that they can bring - and one that western audiences can easily appreciate and enjoy.It looks like it's generally unavailable in the U.K, at least as a region 2 DVD. I only found this region 1 on Amazon by typing in the director's name and not the film's title - as that brought up hundreds of connotations, but not the right one.Hopefully now, Channel 4's airing will have it released properly. It certainly deserves to be.

Well the summary describes the movie in a nutshell, and very appropriately too. It's literally - "A Journey through the Deserts..", vis-a-vis contemporary Hindi movies, which perhaps bears a stark metaphoric resemblance to the deserts.... mostly, devoid of movies such as "Road, Movie"To begin with - the movie seemed a little sluggish, the way it slowly moved on from one act to the other. But what's the haste anyways, guys? (Add to it the fact that the movies' running time is half of regular movies viz. 90 minutes approx is what you're in for ). Gradually, the story unfolds..... without any haste, and one needn't worry about those fleeting moments of 'absent-mindedness'; whence ones' thoughts may have dwindled far away, for probably just a little moment ...and once you are back - body, mind (and perhaps - soul too!).. you mostly won't have missed that "all-to-small-duration", but all too important dialog/narration/scene. Usually in such cases, unless someone with you or without, updates you - you are bound to be lost throughout the rest of the movie. (The last comment assumes that, one isn't gifted with the uncommon-sense of prediction/or ability for "Regression Therapy"; which would otherwise have helped in conjuring up the fillers for the parts that one had missed). But then, it's not required here – as such "probability theory" isn't required, here.With that small intro for a long movie (was that a lie ?? ! :-) ), here are my two cents worth of review comments ( I won't dwindle much on the storyline, as it's already been presented here @ IMDb, pretty well): - The movie is considerably different (something similar to the so called genre of "Art Movies", of the yesterdays!). Mostly, there hasn't been any other benchmark of movies like ROAD - that one can compare with, once it's finished ( so a mild note of caution - if chatting/gossiping and discussions cum comparisons between movies is one's pastime - you mayn't get much food for talk :-("ROAD.."; the movie buff's movie - i.e. putting it otherwise: "It's a movie about the charm, ethos & pathos of the magical world of cinema - That 3 hours of magic , mostly, where the audience forgets the daily grind - and may even identify with the protagonist or other characters. And if all goes well – one may even get new insights in/to "life"… one's own and off all humanity in general!Having saying that the; presentation and cinematography is brilliant ( probably that's an understatement), as one's treated to the visual delight of the vast deserts of Rajasthan (which is the backdrop of the movie, if I wasn't mistaken). Incidentally, one also get's a good feel of the typical life in the deserts, the people - their customs, longings, triumphs and tribulations. A complete visual treat, to put it succinctly.The background score is vibrant and subtly complements and many a times enhances what appears on the screen. However there isn't much of a catchy song that would garner a lot of big-bucks, as Ring-Tones / Dialer- Tones…! One may wonder why isn't the industry churning out more of such gems - movies that the entire world can fathom at least (if not identify with)A brief word of caution before I sign off : in case one has come for the movie, expecting to be in for a regular Bollywood movie (all inclusive); than probably there maybe other options that suit better, compared to the one being talked about. g. But if one's game to join the 'Journey Of A Man' {now, where had I heard a similar phrase similar recently? :-)} -- Through the heart of the desert --> then this is surely the ROAD to such a MOVIE!