CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

sargento30 This is a piece of art. Well paced, awesome acting, incredibly good backgrounds. What more can you ask?

adonis98-743-186503 The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating. Slumdog Millionaire was nothing sort of special as critics wanted you to think plus the acting, the storyline and the script weren't any better either to be perfectly honest at this point. (0/10)

lukechong As they say, if Hollywood lands a money-making script, they will go with all guns blazing to make the movie, however improbable the premise may sound. "Slumdog Millionaire" is just such a script, a screenplay so laden with improbabilities that it holds the most tenuous link with real life, but because of its "feel good" factor, few who swallow its incredulities will care. Two Indian slum kids who speak excellent English? Check. Two slum kids who can survive into adolescence will no home to sleep in and merely by working odd jobs throughout India? Check. A chai wallah who is fated to win 20 million rupees? Check. Baddie cops and underground figures who have only the brain of a three year kids? Check again. The list proliferates...but it's not as if most audience aren't aware of them.The movie is entertaining in a way some kitsch are, because it caters to all the stereotypes as envisioned in so many present-day Hollywood films. It makes a millionaire out of a former slum boy who happens, just happens, to know (almost) all the answers in a gameshow. Then just before the credits roll the director tells you: it is written. It is indeed written, by a cast of British screenwriter and director, who seem more interest in disseminating Hollywood/Western typecast images of India than to portray the real India in realistic shades.So all the characters fall into the good/bad dichotomy, with no one shaded in gray areas. The cops, the mafia members are all painted in broad swathes. The Indian actors give their all in making this movie. but the direction is such that one never ever walk away from the theater thinking such a thing could be probable in real life.What this movie really raises is the ethics of much Hollywood movie-making, which goes all the way to glamorize, exoticize or overemphasize what their hackneyed idea of Third World countries are. There is one telling scene when American tourists defend the slum kid despite being ripped off, and the script goes: "this is the real India", "this is real America". Sadly, this movie more than justify my belief that many such movies are basically exploitative flicks replete with "feel good" factor to cater to Western mainstream moviegoers. The filmmakers don't really care about the economic or social ills of India enough to suggest even a modicum of solution, or illuminate them to effect some change.A pity about those Indian actors. Some of them are quite good, especially the young kids. If you want something more gritty without the Hollywood spotlighting, try "Salaam Bombay!", made by an Indian director with a largely Indian crew with a real feel and empathy for its native characters.

patricialoredana The Slumdog Millionaire is a movie directed by Danny Boyle. This movie is a drama film , release in 30 august 2008 at Telluride Film Festival. The main characters are : Dev Patel, Freida Pinto and Rubina Ali. At first in this movie it's about 3 kids who have been orphans. One of them went to 'You want to be an millionaire'(a TV show) and he won the big prize. Everyone thought he cheated in one way or another and was taken by police and interviewed. He explained every question how he knew the answer : he had an unpleasant memory in childhood. The end of the movie is surprising <3 The film was filmed in Mumbai. The music was chosen by A.R. Rahman, some examples are : 'Riots', 'Mausam & Escape', 'Ringa Ringa', 'Liquid Dance' and many others. In my opinion this movie is so sad...I cried 2 times when I watched it but it was worth it. is very exciting and and I would look 100 times a day if I could. my note for 'slumdog millionaire' is 9 out of 10 because it could be shorter. I recommended this movie.