"Slumdog Millionaire"

"Slumdog Millionaire" is a heart felt story that love overcomes all, by Danny Boyle. shot from every angle imaginable the film is hard to view at times but keeps your attention. the story line is simple and you know how it ends very quickly, including the Bollywood ending. I enjoyed the film very much but its idealism make it fall short to other films this year like "The Wrestler" and "Gran Torino" who's story lines run much deeper, and maybe missed by most. the film also fall short when it come to acting, against films as "Doubt" staring Streep, Adams,and Hoffman, "The Wrestler" staring a brilliant piece of work preformed by Mickey Rourke accompanied with Marisa Tomei, also Eastwood carries a cast of unknowns in Torino but rises as the cream of the crop, but the story is a hard pill of reality for most to swallow. one other issue with Slumdog was the main character Jamal Malik, played by Dev Patel as the 18 year old, and the 2 other actors who play Jamal in his earlier years,(Azharuddin Mohammad Ismal), youngest Jamal , and (Tanay Chheda), plays the middle Jamal, steal the movie out from under Patel. This U.K. picture set in Mumbai India is full of disturbing imagines of the city and its people make the story line a little more believable.