Movie Review: Slumdog Millionaire

"Wow...wow...wow..."..That's all I was muttering as I watched this movie. Each moment, each direction, each dialogue, left nothing more possible to be desired. It was just too perfect, the way everything was executed. I don't even have to provide a basis of the movie, instead just tell you to go watch it, but I will anyways.

It's about a young contestant, Jamal Malik(played by Dev Patel),who goes on the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire", where the only reason he participates is not for the money, but to take a wild chance and see if his childhood sweetheart notices him on the show. Will they ever be reunited? Now this sounds extremely generic, but actually, each question leads back to his childhood, and how life taught him so much more than an education could, and shows everything he experienced from the dirty ghetto's of Mumbai, to hustling by just himself and his brother to survive alone. That's when they meet Latika(played by Frieda Pinto), and Jamal instantly falls in love with her. But the situation gets twisted, and his older brother Salim abandons him, and sleeps with her, splitting the three of them up up until he gets on the show.

This is the basic set up of the movie, but as you watch them grow up, and witness the result of every question, etc. etc. you'll just end up smiling, wondering why you hadn't seen this movie earlier? According to Rotten Tomatoes, the web's top movie rating site, it's the highest rated movie currently in theatres. So what're you waiting for?? GO SEE IT!! :D