The international film industry has had much to offer in the year 2014, showcasing a great variety in action, comedy, animation and romance. This has been a rich year in terms of bringing movies with great potential for entertainment. Many of these films have successfully entertained movie lovers all over the world and some of them are truly must watch movies.
Here is a list of top 10 must see movies of the year 2014:
1- Transcendence
The film is set in future, with scientists working on a project to create superior computer intelligence and a terrorist group trying to prevent the success of this mission. The film stars Johnny Depp as a computer scientist, while Rebecca Hall plays his wife and colleague. The film is the debut directorial venture of ace cinematographer, Wally Pfister and has earned him a reputation for being a fantastic story teller, with an eye for beauty and perfection.
2- Godzilla
After giving Monsters in 2010, director Gareth Edwards has come back with another sci-fi drama this year, but with much better special effects, thanks to a large team of expert technicians backing him up. The film has some prominent names on its star cast, including Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Olsen, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Juliette Binoche, Ken Watanabe and David Strathaim. The trailer shows images of a devastated city, which re-establish Godzilla as a ferocious force of nature.
3- Interstellar
As it has been reported, the story of this must see movie is about the discovery of a wormhole in space and the voyage of a team of scientists through this wormhole. Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Casey Affleck and Jessica Chastain play the lead roles in this movie, which has been shot extensively in Iceland and Canada. The film is much awaited on account of the cinematic tricks by the filmmaker Christopher Nolan.
4- How to Catch a Monster
This must see film of the year 2014 marks the debut of actor Ryan Gosling as a director and has a formidable line up of actors, including some big names like Christina Hendricks, Matt Smith, Eva Mendes and Ben Mendelsohn. The film is again a fantasy story about a single mother and her son, who set up the discovery of a city under the sea.
5- Birdman
A comedy film by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, it stars Michael Keaton as Riggan Thomson, the man who once played Birdman but now has to put on a Broadway play. The film is all about ego, family and insecurity. Emma Store, Edward Norton, Naomi Watts and Amy Ryan are on the supporting star cast.
6- Big Eyes
Expected to be among the must see movies of the year is Big Eyes, in which Tim Burton comes back with his Ed Wood team of writers of Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. The film narrates the story of Walter Keane, played by Christopher Waltz, who shots to fame during the 50-60s for his paintings of big eyed children, which in reality were the works of his wife, Margaret, played by Amy Adams. The story moves ahead into a divorce case, during which the wife accuses her husband of stealing her work.
7- The Raid 2
A sequel to the action thriller of 2011, The Raid, the film again stars Iko Uwais, going undercover to expose a Jakarta gang. We will come to know whether the film is going to create the same thrill as its prequel only after watching this one.
8- Guardians of the Galaxy
Another space adventure presented by Marvel movies, this one is a big gamble as it is something the masses are not familiar with. Slated to come out on August 1, 2014, this film has names like Bradley Cooper, Karen Gillan, Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Michael Rooker on the star cast.
9-How to Train Your Dragon 2
This is a much awaited animated movie this year, this movie moves five years ahead from the first chapter, where Hiccup and his friends are late teenagers, who find themselves in the mid of a conflict between humans and dragons.
10- X-Men Days of Future Past: After X-Men:
First Class, which came in 2011, this must see movie of 2014 is adapted from 1981 comic book and has a complex story line about mutant survival play out across two points in time. The film has Hugh Jackman, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page and Peter Dinklage in its star cast.
All these movies are the must see movies of 2014, which should not be missed at any cost!!!