Review: Slumdog Millionaire

After swearing never to watch this film thanks to the god-awful bus ads promising 'the feel-good film of the decade' I finally sat down to watch the all-conquering Oscar winning film from Danny Boyle on the promise no Hugh Grant style antics would be seen.

The film is set as far away from Notting Hill in tone as it is geographically, fitting in shit-swimming, torture and ethnic cleansing before being topped off with a little bit of implied rape - and all in the first hour to boot.

By dealing with the brutal aspects of the reality such as poverty and cruelty takes it way above the traditional will-they, won’t-they of the genre it so loosely belongs to and makes the films message even more powerful.