Well, I guess I’m one of the few people who liked this film… I thought it was a beautiful jumble of colors and the actors were very appealing. The plot is predictable, yes; you can pretty much narrate the entire movie from the tagline, but that’s the point. And yes, it is sentimental, but it’s supposed to show how miracles happen to good deserving people. Yes that sounds just as gallingly sentimental, I know, but there is some truth behind it. The film is split between flashbacks, to Jamal’s childhood, the recent past, the gameshow, and the time after winning where he is being interrogated, when he is telling his whole story. Some of his stories are brutal and hard to watch, while others are endearing. The directing style is admirable, the sequences of shots mirroring the feeling of the scenes they’re capturing. It’s colorful, chaotic, wrenching, edgy, and yes predictable. And the dance number at the end is the best part.