A Common Man (2013)

Fresh and Exciting

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Best movie of this year hands down!

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The acting and script for this movie, set in Sri Lanka, is typical of Indian movies....IE amateurish, stilted dialogue and amateur night editing and direction..they must have recruited the marvelous Ben Kingsley to give the film a "toe up".....give it a miss!Unless of course you have nothing better to do with your time but watch wholesale rubbish by fine actors tricked into working in a crap film, where the whole production is geared around making a mockery of cinema in general. How will the two Bens ever live this down? They may not...and I doubt they will ever work again with this director out of sheer embarrassment and outrage.Although Kingsley does give an inspiring performance amid this sea of mediocrity. What's that award they give for the years worst films?...raspberry?

This movie actually is better than it looks. On the downside it has all the hallmarks of a B-movie. The editing is poor, the script is dull and at times laughable, filming is amateurish and the characters are superficial. Even a decent actor like Ben Kingsley cant make his role interesting.However the movie has a very clear story line that is followed in a consistent logical fashion. A man (Ben Kingsley) places bombs around Colombo Sri Lanka and makes demands not to detonate those. The movie has a surprising end posing a deep political and practical question. A consistent story line with few pointless disturbances, excellent ending and some deep questions about society included is more than you get in most movies these days.All in all to me the positive outweighs the negative. If you can live with movie-technical flaws, watch this one!

This movie was so terrible that I was so surprised that how could it turn out to be, with an actor like Ben. But then I realized that the whole production team and the cast was just horrible, so there's no surprise that it was an epic failure.Made me wonder whether they did have a casting session before selecting the cast or at least even read the script twice! Why didn't they go for Sri Lankan actors? Instead, they had to go for people who called themselves actors, only god knows from where they were picked up from.Major blow to Sri Lanka and as a Sri Lankan, I am quite crossed about making this movie. I hope people will not think bad about Sri Lankan movies, because we produce many good movies which goes and wins foreign movie festival awards. But among them, here this is, smearing mud on our faces.Absolutely horrible. Cannot give 0. So I'm giving 1 out of 10.

Seeing Ben Kingsly and Ben Cross on the cast, made me excited that they came to Sri Lanka to make a movie. I thought given the resources and talent available in the local film industry I expected a very convincing movie, but as most of us were, i was Thoroughly Disappointed. Firstly let me say that the dialog was utter crap. It was so bad, it had me laughing my sides out. The script seemed to meander purposelessly, and the police at the head quarters lacked the urgency you would usually find when a National Security department gets a bomb threat. To make things worse, the acting was just artificial and almost ammature. I doubt Mr Weeraman could ever out-do his terrible performance. This is possibly the lowest Mr Kingsly would ever reach in his career, I look forward to his performance in Iron Man 3.