Never judge a movie by its title!

This applies to English movies also.

A lot of movies I've known/seen which had these catchy titles ended up being mind blowing entertainers. Some of them are

• Phone booth
  
• 300
• Gone in 60 Seconds
• Vacancy
• Identity
• A Wednesday (Hindi)
  

If you see, most of them were stylish in their own way, having a lot of relevance to the title.

I happened to watch this movie titled '15 Minutes' recently.

Well, first up, this is not a review about the film but all about the titles of the movie and our blog post. The perfect relationship that they think they share.

The movie began with a scene in New York (NY) airport where the camera glances at a huge queue of men and women piled up for immigration check. Frankly, my immediate thought was something like

'Okay! So this is how it is supposed to be like. A stunning 15 minute drama at the immigration area in the airport itself? Oh Man! What a better plot this title could probably get?'

The immigration officers get to check the passports and documents of two men with eastern European English accent who seemed to be completely weird. They ask them a few questions about themselves and end up getting stupid answers but they approve them later and send them inside NY.

Now, my thinking has to change.

Alright. The airport scene is over. May be something else is in store for me to enjoy.

The movie goes on and on and on. A lot of killing and investigation and romance and a few hundred scenes depicting the intentions of a media company which is aiming hard to make it big in NY by premiering a few top stories (more specifically, crime oriented). I kind of totally agree that all of these blends very well with the storyline. Claps. But the only thing that constantly pricked on my mind was,

"Where is this '15 minutes'? Would that ever come? Man. I need to catch up with a good sleep because its 11PM already."

A lot of people might be knowing about this Kamal Movie titled 'Vettayadu Vilayadu (Tag line: Yet another story in a police officer's life)' which had this amazing plot for a Crime Scene Investigation where the story starts with a few disturbing and clueless blackmail and murder scenes which paves way for officer Raghavan to take up the case. He goes on with the investigation where he gets to hear about another brutal murder case in New York which was much relevant to the one that happened in India. The story then moves ahead in NY where our officer's investigation and thinking are depicted in a very stylish way, with curiosity building up in the minds of the audience. While you notice that the pace is completely set up, the hero ends up finding this Indian girl on the next room at Renaissance Hotel. He is off to a completely stylish and instinctive mood as he claims that his instinct told him about a (an about to happen) suicide in the very next room, in the hotel.

"Pause: I am still not complaining friends!! Okay. Pressing the Play button again"

He, then through his mighty instinct, rescues her. Beautiful girl.

Damn. This is where fuel is added on to fire, all burnings happening inside our stomach. Courtesy: Jealousy. I am still not complaining. Just asking all movie directors if they could end up placing a girl with really thick soda bottle glasses, bugs bunny teeth, and a heart-unthrobbing, shapeless body.

I just realized am giving too many pauses and going off track. Back to our story. He rescues her. She is rescued by him. They end up getting to know each other at a Cafe a day after. Bright sunlight. Busy NY. She asks him if Raghavan was a software engineer. He replies saying that he is in hardware (meaning a cop).

I swear I loved this dialogue by the hero. I mean, you cannot answer in a better fashion for that question. It had humor, intelligence, smartness and to top it all, an answer. It was a lovable one. BUT BUT fellas, not in a movie with a plot like this!!!! You know what you came here for. You know that there are a bunch of audiences waiting to know what would happen to the investigation. Who is the killer? And more importantly, why are they doing all these? Blah Blah.

Later on, the movie again gains awesome pace because the coffee is over. But, it has to be dragging at a few places mid way, as a coffee cannot withstand hunger for long. You need to dine at the best locations on NY. A song shot at places like Times Square, Brooklyn Bridge, Madison Square Garden (I know only these places and that too only because of movies). All necessary elements only, but for a romantic movie.

I would definitely suggest movie lovers to watch this movie for sure (with subtitles for people who cannot interpret tamil, but again a great advantage of this movie is the fact that it has close to 70% of English dialogues in it. Stylish again) So, I think we are getting the point now. If you have a catchy title or a plot, obey that.

Back to '15 minutes', this movie moves in a similar manner. A point where the Officer and a fireman (they are the heroes of this movie) end up chasing these psycho killers on the streets of NY, they run away because the director feels that the movie should definitely harm the title.

Alright. They ran away. Won't you be calling the intelligence to add more grip to the pace? No. The officer claims to teach his subordinate some lessons on investigation. He tells the fireman that both them need to go home and take rest, instead of showing your tiredness. Our hero now starts practicing 'I love you. You are adorable' in french, in his washroom, in front of the mirror as he is planning to propose her the very same night. (What crap!!! Am crying. I have to sleep. Please finish this off)

And then the movie still goes on for one more hour, way too irrelevant to its title. I later realized that the title could have been kept something like,

• A hundred and fifty minutes
• 2 Killers, 2 Catchers and their 2 respective girlfriends
• Title is only - 15 Minutes
• A film by ' ' (director's name)

I and my brother were bored to death. The punchline and message that i extracted from this experience was,

Never watch a movie with expectations from its title, or when you want to have a peaceful sleep.