Iron Man 2

Somehow, I completely missed Iron Man 2 when it came out in 2010. It’s not that I didn’t want to see it—the trailer looked fantastic—but I just never got around to seeing it. Or renting it. But when Netflix made the ridiculous decision to split its streaming and DVD services, I had to move fast; on top of that, it was time to get caught up for The Avengers.
Iron Man 2 picks up six months after the first film. Despite single-handedly maintaining world peace with the Iron Man armor, industrialist Tony Stark isn’t on top of the world—the US government is demanding his armor, and the palladium core in the arc reactor that keeps Tony alive and the suit running is slowly poisoning him with no viable alternative in sight. As Tony gets increasingly desperate, a new threat emerges—Ivan Vanko, a Russian physicist out for revenge on the Starks.
The original Iron Man is one of the best superhero movies ever made, which puts a lot of pressure on Iron Man 2… which it has trouble living up to. The famously improvised script of Iron Man worked so well because it wasn’t self-conscious at all; here, you can occasionally feel the cast straining for their old ease. The time and effort that went into making you believe that an Iron Man could fly in the first film is absent here, which makes the CGI feel a bit weightless and cheap. Thor had much the same problem; without the establishment, it’s hard to invest in the special effects extravaganza. You can absolutely tell the difference between CGI armor shots and actual armor shots, whereas the line was a bit blurrier in the first film. (Also, while I’m sure it has basis in actual science and fact, the way the Iron Man suits hover makes me giggle. They look like penguins. Armored penguins.)
However, despite this, the cast remains lovely. Downey Jr. gets a chance for more dramatic material as Tony faces his own mortality (…in the only way Tony can, of course) and deals with his father’s legacy, which was absolutely touching. I really loved the industrialist Walt Disney vibe they gave Howard, and I hope they expand on that in Captain America. Paltrow’s Pepper remains calm and only flappable by superheroics and actual danger. Unfortunately, Terrence Howard is replaced by Don Cheadle—a fine actor in his own right, of course, but Howard and Downey had a similar energy that went a long way to explaining why Rhodey and Tony were friends without going into too much detail. Cheadle begins the film dignified and stand-offish—understandable, given Tony’s antics—but it makes Rhodey too much like Pepper, and there’s no reason to have two characters who have the same reaction to Tony. It improves towards the end, but it does make you miss Howard, which is a shame for Cheadle, who is clearly trying and having a ball. Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff is calm, quiet, and ridiculously competent. For the five seconds that she and Pepper are working together, I wanted to see more—Pepper deserves to work with someone who doesn’t drive her absolutely crazy. Mickey Rourke’s Ivan Vanko is eccentric but enormously dangerous, while Sam Rockwell’s Justin Hammer is a poor man’s Tony. It’s nice for Tony to have someone like him to bounce off of, but, while I love Rockwell, he’s really just a device so that Vanko can get to Tony

Tezz

Tezz (English: Fast/Speedy) is an upcoming Hindi action thriller film directed by Priyadarshan. The film features an ensemble cast; including Mohanlal, Anil Kapoor, Ajay Devgan, Boman Irani, Kangna Ranaut, Sameera Reddy and Zayed Khan in main roles. It is expected to hit theatres on 27 April, 2012. The stunt choreographer had been Gareth Milne, the stunt co-ordinator of Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer and National Treasure: Book of Secrets.Tezz was earlier titled "Bullet Train". The official trailer was released on January 4, 2012.

  Synopsis : One man is out to get back what was unjustly taken away from him... the other is willing to do whatever it takes to stop him in order to serve justice; both are pitted against each other...and both are pitted against time.

Lives have already been destroyed and more lives are about to be devastated as a train speeding from Glasgow to London holds the fate of Aakash Rana (Ajay Devgn) and Counter Terrorism Command Arjun Khanna (Anil Kapoor), and only one of them will succeed.

Shot across England with action sequences like none other, Tezz also features Kangna Ranaut, Boman Irani, Zayed Khan, Sameera Reddy and Mohanlal.

Cast

• Anil Kapoor as Himanshu Verma
• Ajay Devgn as Aakash Rehna
• Mohanlal as Shivan Menon (Cameo)
• Kangna Ranaut as Naveena Barnwal
• Sameera Reddy as Megha
• Esha Gupta as Anamik

Journey 2

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In "Journey 2," Johnson plays Hank, the new stepfather of Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson, returning from the first movie).  Hank accompanies Sean on an excursion to the South Pacific after receiving a distress signal from Sean's missing grandfather (Michael Caine).  With the help of a local helicopter pilot (Luis Guzman) and his daughter (Vanessa Hudgens), Hank and Sean discover the location of the fantastical Mysterious Island that Jules Verne wrote about in his novel.
Why does he get cast in so many sequels?  For studios, he does seem to help their bottom line.  Both "The Mummy Returns" and "Fast Five" were the most successful films in their respective series.  He also has a broad international appeal, which has become extremely important for Hollywood.  For example, "Fast Five" made $50 million more in the US than "Fast and Furious" did.  But when you add in worldwide grosses, the fifth film made almost $300 million more than the fourth.
Strangely, the only time that Johnson has played the same character twice to date was in "The Scorpion King."  That was technically a prequel to "The Mummy Returns" (which was itself a sequel to a remake).  "The Scorpion King" also spawned two direct-t0-video prequels where Johnson didn't appear.  A different actor played the title character in each of those installments.
Johnson isn't about to stop jumping aboard movie franchises, either.  This summer, he'll be headlining "G.I. Joe: Retaliation."  It's the sequel to 2009's "G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra," and while that movie's star Channing Tatum reprises his role of Duke, it's Johnson who is front and center as the new character Roadblock (Tatum doesn't even appear once in the ad that played during the Super Bowl).  Obviously, the studio is hoping that the action fans who turned up for "Fast Five" will flock to the new amped-up "G.I. Joe."
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But before you think Dwayne Johnson will take a role in just any sequel, there is good news.  It was announced this week that a sequel to Johnson's moderately successful family comedy "Tooth Fairy" will be going straight to DVD next month.  Johnson, however, opted not to appear in it.  He'll be replaced by an actor known for his discriminating taste in film projects: Larry the Cable Guy.
You can see Dwayne Johnson in "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" in theaters now.  "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" will hit screens on June 29.  And he's scheduled to return in the sixth "Fast and Furious" movie sometime in 2013

Agent Vinod

Agent Vinod a 2012 Indian action spy film directed by Sriram Raghavan. The movie borrows its name from the 1977 film of the same name. The film stars Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor in leading roles and also features Ravi Kishan, Prem Chopra, Ram Kapoor, Gulshan Grover and Maryam Zakaria. It was filmed in India, Morocco, Russia, Latvia, UK, South Africa and Pakistan. Agent Vinod was co-produced by Illuminati Films and Eros Entertainment and was expected to release on December 9, 2011. However, the release was delayed to March 23, 2012

Plot 

In the Dasht-E-Margoh desert in remote Afghanistan, inside a Taliban camp, an ISI official, Col. Huzefa (Shahbaz Khan), is interrogating a captured man (Saif Ali Khan) suspected to be a Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), agent. The man offers up details about RAW's operations in Afghanistan in exchange for money and safe passage across the border. He betrays his colleague, Major Rajan (Ravi Kissen), who has also infiltrated the camp. This is only a ruse, as both overpower their captors and fight their way out of the camp. Along the way, they rescue a girl called Farah (Maryam Zakaria).

In New Delhi, Agent Vinod enters RAW headquarters to meet his boss Hassan Nawaz (B. P. Singh). Nawaz shows him Major Rajan's final message from Russia. Just as he completes his message, Rajan is killed by a man who has a scorpion tattoo on his forearm. Nawaz asks Vinod to find out what '242' actually is. Vinod travels to Moscow, and enters a nightclub owned by Abu Nazer. He manages to capture and interrogate Nazer, who tells him a man called Freddie Khambatta is to smuggle the million to Morocco. Vinod is almost captured by Nazer's men, but manages to escape, killing Nazer in the process.

Vinod boards a flight to Marakkesh, Morocco. Freddie Khambatta turns out to be the flight steward. Vinod picks him up from the airport, only to assume his place. As Freddie, Vinod meets local mafia boss David Kazan (Prem Chopra). Kazan is accompanied by his personal Pakistani doctor, Ruby Mendes (Kareena Kapoor). Kazan suspects Vinod, and gets Ruby to administer him a truth serum. Vinod blurts out that he is a RAW agent and killed Abu Nazer. Kazan confronts Vinod when he regains consciousness, but Vinod manages to convince him he is Freddie Khambatta, and explains he had to kill Abu Nazer to protect the mission. He manages to clone Kazan's phone and finds out that a MI6 agent is reaching Morocco the next day.

In the meantime, Vinod gets closer to Ruby, and tries to find out what '242' is. Ruby is actually Iram, a British-Pakistani who is working undercover for the ISI. Vinod goes to meet the MI6 agent and finds him murdered in his room with strong pointers that the murder was committed by Ruby. He gets an invitation card from the murdered agent's room for a private auction. He learns that many international terrorist groups are converging on an antiques auction in Marakkesh to purchase '242'. Vinod brings Ruby to the auction, where Kazan is also present along with Jagadishwar Metla (Dhritiman Chatterji). Vinod spots an LTTE agent he had encountered previously, and from him, learns that '242' is actually the detonator for the nuclear device, disguised as an antique volume of Omar Khayyam's 'Rubaiyyat'. A bidding war ensues, and Kazan manages to secure the detonator.

In Chaman, Baluchistan, the head of the ISI is murdered by Col. Huzefa, who is actually part of a group of rogue ISI colonels who are planning an attack on India. In Morocco, Kazan locks the detonator with a password, and hands it over to Colonel (Adil Hussain), who has arrived in Morocco. Ruby/Iram stumbles into the real Freddie Khambatta, and finds out Vinod is a RAW agent. Managing to escape from men trying to kill them, both agree to work together to prevent the nuclear device from falling into the wrong hands. Ruby returns to Kazan's estate only to find out that the estate has been ransacked and Kazan has been shot dead by 'Colonel'. 'Colonel' captures Ruby and asks her to reveal the whereabouts of Agent Vinod. He plants a sniper next to the hotel where Agent Vinod is to rendezvous with Ruby. The sniper takes a shot at him but Vinod manages to escape and is admitted to a hospital. The assasin reaches the hospital in the guise of a doctor and tries to administer a venom injection to Vinod. Vinod spots the scorpion tattoo on the doctor's forearm and overpowers him, killing him. He then clears his way out of the hospital to find Iram.

'Colonel' who is now in possession of the detonator, has reached Latvia to acquire the bomb. He enlists Iram to seduce an airport security employee to get his ID card so that the nuclear bomb can be transported out of Latvia. Iram succeeds in doing so, and 'Colonel' provides the ID card to his man, who is to transport the bomb out of Latvia. Colonel also sets up a rigged bomb so that both the airport employee and Iram die in the blast. Vinod arrives and as he interrogates Iram, the blast occurs, giving Iram the realization that she was being set up to be killed by the Colonel.

Vinod and Iram join hands and try to capture the Colonel and the bomb. Iram tells Vinod that the Colonel has called for a meeting at Karachi with fugitive don Pasha who can also be in the plot. The Colonel gets the Rubaiyat and tells his men to kill Vinod and Iram. However, Vinod manages to kill them all. Iram and Vinod reach Karachi, where they meet the rescued girl Farah, who is a dancer. With her help, they enter the wedding attended by an Indian mafia don (Gulshan Grover). There, they learn that Col. Huzefa and the don have agreed to smuggle the nuclear device from Karachi into India via the sea route. However, they are captured by Col. Huzefa, from whom they learn the target of the bomb is New Delhi. They manage to escape, and make it to New Delhi, where they try to find the location of the bomb. They find that the Colonel is staying with an ISI/Lashkar agent, who is an old professor. Iram finds the professor's map, which is of the bus route that Jimmy is taking with the armed bomb.

Iram hurriess to the exhibition where Colonel is hiding as a pilot in disguise. Iram runs into 'Colonel', and is shot, but points him out to Indian security forces, who kill him. Eventually, Vinod tracks down the bomb and takes the bomb up in a helicopter to detonate it as far away from the city as possible. The dying Iram, who realizes that David Kazan had set the password to the detonator, asks Vinod to try the name of Kazan's camel. The bomb is defused, Iram apparently dies of gunshot wounds. Later Vinod sees a recording, showing Metla planning the attack. Vinod accuses Metla and the Zeus group for murdering millions for making money at the global stock exchanges. Metla mocks Vinod, telling him world affairs are too complex for 'lowly police officers' to understand. However, Vinod is wearing a wire, and London cell of the Lashkar-e-Toiba are listening in. Realizing that they have been manipulated by Metla into almost starting a war with India, and has been badly damaged in the process as the Pakistan government is now violently cracking down on them, the Lashkar sends a suicide bomber (Arif Zakaria) to assassinate Metla at a function in his honor. Metla is killed, but posthumously feted as a great philanthropist.

On a beach in Capetown, the beautiful Russian girl who first acquired the nuclear device, is seen sunbathing. She looks up to find Agent Vinod smiling at her. It is apparent Vinod has moved on to his next mission.

Cast

• Saif Ali Khan as Agent Vinod
• Kareena Kapoor as Iram Parveen Bilal
• Ravi Kishan as Major Rajan
• Prem Chopra as David Kazaan
• Ram Kapoor as Abu Sayed Nazer
• B. P. Singh as Hasan Nawaz
• Shahbaz Khan as Colonel Huzefa Lokha
• Gulshan Grover as Tehmur Pasha
• Adil Hussain as Colonel
• Maryam Zakaria as Farah Faqesh special appearance in song "Dil Mera Muft Ka"
• Mallika Haydon as a special appearance in song "I'll Do the Talking" & "Pyaar Ki Pungi"
• Dhritiman Chaterji as Sir Jagadishwar Metla
• Rajat Kapoor as ISI Chief Iftekhar Ahmed
• Anshuman Singh as Jimmy
• Arif Zakaria as the Lashkar Suicide Bomber
• Vasilisa Petina as the Mysterious Girl

Agneepath

Agneepath (English: Path of Fire) is a 2012 Indian epic action thriller film produced by Karan Johar. It is a remake of the 1990 film of the same name and is directed by Johar's former assistant Karan Malhotra. Though publicized as a remake; the film borrows only the basic plot of the original, while making the characters and incidents completely different. The title of the film is taken from a poem of the same name called 'Agneepath' which was penned by Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Amitabh's father, and is recited at the beginning of the movie and creates a thematic link that continues through the movie, particularly in the climax, both literally and metaphorically.
While Hrithik Roshan plays the lead role of Vijay Deenanath Chauhan, Sanjay Dutt plays the role of the main antagonist Kancha Cheena, originally played by Amitabh Bachchan and Danny Denzongpa respectively. The film stars Priyanka Chopra as the female lead. Other members of the cast include Rishi Kapoor playing a newly introduced negative character, Om Puri and Zarina Wahab among others. The award winning character of Krishnan Iyer M.A played by Mithun Chakraborty in the original has been totally done away with. Shooting of the film mostly took place in Diu and Mumbai's film city. Originally slated for release on 20 January, Agneepath was postponed by a week to 26 January 2012, making it a Republic Day release. Upon release, the film broke the highest opening day collections record and became a critical and commercial success, unlike the origina

Cast

• Hrithik Roshan as Vijay Deenanath Chauhan
• Priyanka Chopra as Kaali Gawde
• Sanjay Dutt as Kancha Cheena
• Rishi Kapoor as Rauf Lala
• Om Puri as Commissioner Gaitonde
• Zarina Wahab as Suhasini Chauhan
• Rajesh Tandon as Mazhar Lala
• Sachin Khedekar as Home secretary, an aide of Kancha
• Deven Bhojani as Azhar Lala, young mentally challenged son of Rauf Lala
• Chetan Pandit as Master Deenanath Chavhan
• Arish Bhiwandiwala as Young Vijay Deenanath Chavhan
• Kanika Tiwari as Shiksha Chauhan
• Rajesh Vivek as a police who is an aid of Kancha
• Madhurjeet Sarghi as Lachhi
• Katrina Kaif in a special appearance in and as "Chikni Chameli"

Plot

The story opens in an island village of Mandwa. The school teacher of the village,Dinanath Chauhan (Chetan Pandit),who is highly respected by the villagers tries to dissuade them from giving away their lands on lease to Kancha Cheena (Sanjay Dutt),the son of the village head who plans to start a drug mafia.Knowing this,Kancha decides to get rid of the school teacher.He devices a plan which agitates the villagers against the school teacher.Kancha,with the support of the villagers kills the teacher by hanging him to death from a tree which is witnessed by young Vijay Chauhan (Hrithik Roshan),the son of the teacher.Vijay Chauhan along with his pregnant mother Suhasini Chauhan (Zarina Wahab) leaves the village.Destitute, they find shelter in the city of Mumbai but Vijay keeps the fire to go back to Mandwa and kill Kancha burning.While in Mumbai,Vijay Chauhan's mother delivers a baby girl named Shiksha.Vijay Chauhan is attracted to Rauf Lala (Rishi Kapoor),a local girl trafficker,drug lord and importantly an anti of Kancha and wants to get into his company.During this period,he testifies in favour of Rauf Lala and kills a cop.Eventually he is joined into the gang by Rauf Lala.Meanwhile,his mother along with his baby sister leaves Vijay because she thinks he was wasted by the thought of taking revenge for his father's death.

Vijay through the years,works for Rauf Lala and finds himself as a trusted worker for the drug lord.Meanwhile,he also does several charity activities on the name of his sister.Once inspector and now commissioner,Gaitonde (Om Puri) acts as a silent guardian for Vijay and tries to eliminate crime in the Mumbai city.During the time when Rauf's influence over the drug business in Mumbai is falling,Kancha decides to grow his influence as a drug lord in the city and sends one of his men over to Mumbai for the process.Vijay with the help of the commissioner disrupts this plan and is lauded by Lala.He further gains the trust of Lala by taking a bullet shot which was thought was aimed for Lala's son but is later revealed as a conspiracy involving Vijay and the man kancha sent over to Mumbai to whom Vijay offers to help Kancha in expanding his drug business in Mumbai.

On the night of his marriage,Lala's son Mazhar Lala (Rajesh Tandon) gets the information that the shot was fired by Kancha's man and along with Vijay leaves to end him in the process of which is shot dead by Kancha's man right in front of Vijay who is unmoved.Vijay later shoots the killer for leaving the evidence of their conspired plan.Lala on seeing his son dead falls sick and is admitted into a hospital unconscious.In the meantime,Vijay takes the place of Lala and stops all the crimes committed by Lala's gang.He then is then contacted by Kancha.He accepts Kancha's offer and goes to Mandwa for a business deal.While in Mandwa,Vijay puts his deal in front of Kancha which is handing over the drug business in Mumbai over to Kancha and in return taking Mandwa.Though Kancha initially suspects this deal, he later agrees on the condition that the commissioner must be killed.

Meanwhile back in Mumbai,Lala regains health and knows the truth behind his son's death.He gets hold of Vijay's sister Shiksha(Kanika Tiwari) and calls out for her sale in public to one who bids the most.Vijay is notified of this by Kancha and he flees back to Mumbai and kills Lala after which he gets closer to his family.In the meantime,Kancha sents a man to assasinate the commissioner.This man identifies Vijay to be the son of the teacher killed by Kancha and reports this to Kancha.This man while trying to assasinate the commisioner is killed by Vijay.The commisioner later warns Vijay to be careful as Kancha posed him a threat.Vijay then marries his love interest Kaali (Priyanka Chopra)who is killed right after their marriage during a shooting spree by Kancha's men.

Vijay leaves for Mandwa to avenge the death of his father and his wife by killing Kancha and on the otherhand,Kancha gets hold of Vijay's mother and sister and brings them to Mandwa.During the final showdown,Vijay bearing a couple of initial stabbings from Kancha garners energy and kills Kancha by hanging him from the same tree to which his father was hanged to. Finally, Vijay succumbs to his injuries and breaths his last in the hands of his mother