Movie Review – Men In Black 3

Men In Black 3 (MIB3) is definitely amongst the most awaited movies of this year. Those who enjoyed MIB 1 and 2 have their hopes high for MIB 3. Agent J and Agent K gained overnight popularity and they provided best of entertainment to their viewers. By the way can anyone recall what were both agents doing almost 10 years ago in MIB 2? Apart from maintaining harmony on planet earth between Aliens and Humans. 

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This time the movie rolls back from 1969, the time when astronauts were trying their luck to “moon walk”. On the contrary Agent K was imprisoned by an alien called “Boris the Animal”. After 4 decades Boris is focusing on killing agent K. On the contrary, the current chief Agent O, (played by Emma Thompson), orders agent J to visit back in to time and save agent K and return back without getting trapped in time. 

The plot is brilliant, undoubtedly and so is the execution. Those who can remember Star Trek IV can definitely rejoice the idea of getting acquainted with unusually fancy yet weird characters. Etna Cohen’s screenplay and Barry Sonnerfeld’s direction provide an extraordinary and captivating experience, highlighting the evocative hopefulness of that era.

As far as the performances are concerned, so fasten up your belts to get amazed by Josh Brolin who performs the character of young agent K. The remarkable actor grips the character with both his hands. The funnier side of the character will definitely bring smile to audiences’ lips. Will smith continues to inspire and astonish the viewers with his marvelous performance. He is charming, quick witted and perfectly lovable in this character.

The movie is definitely a nice one for those who will go with “not much” expectations. But for those who have their hopes “high”, this fare might disappoint them. There are some great scenes and dialogues that will be loved by the viewers. Some highlights of the movie include:

 - Josh Brolin as the young Agent K shows a brilliant stroke. Brolin captures Jones' spirit to such a towering scale that he creates the perfect old chemistry with Will Smith. It's a great change, and gladly, the old comedy team is back.

 - Director Barry Sonnenfeld is as tremendous as ever. His frenzied manner alters between action, comedy and pathos are speedy enough to induce whiplash.

 - The movie is high on action and it offers slick humor with rasping fun. MIB 3 is the wonder of chance that makes up the cohesive fabric of the past, present and the future

It is a must watch for the fans of Will Smith, Men In Black Series, alien flicks and for those who want to discover the talent of Brolin.

Rating: 7.5/10

THE DICTATOR – Movie Review

Those who are familiar with ALI G, Borat and Bruno, must definitely be waiting for the new and much awaited movie of Sacha Baron Cohen named “The Dictator”. There is not second thought that the actor is amongst the finest comedians and can take up any script and add “life” to it by using his tremendous efforts. This particular movie “The Dictator” receives a mix reaction from the audiences. Let us discover more about this laugh riot.

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“The Dictator” revolves around a plot that is based on the bestselling novel “Zabibah – The Kingdom”, penned by Saddam Hussein. The movie tells the tale of a ruler (Dictator) who lived a jeopardized life trying to make certain that democracy would never enter his land. Sacha Baron Cohen portrays the role of Admiral General Aladin along with the much talented and amazing actor Ben Kingsley as Taamir. 

As far as the performance of both the actors are concerned, they both do justice to their roles – without a doubt. But one can not go overboard when the script is weak. Same happened with “The dictator”. The well known writers Alec Berg, David Mandel and Jeff Schaffer could simply not let the audience gag. On the contrary Larry Charles (director) tries really hard to do justice and he definitely saves himself on that ground.

Cohen is an amazing performer and his conviction is seen on the screen, he is one committed actor but the role that is played by him in this particular movie lacks conceiving power. He manages to provide some great laughs especially when he discusses about “Osama Bin Laden” and his death. Ana Faris is competent and adds what she is capable of.

This is amongst first of those American movies that makes audience laugh at 9/11. This is definitely a bold step in itself. On the whole “The Dictator” is receiving multiple reactions, for those who have high hopes with the movie will be definitely disappointed and for those who will take it as a normal or usual fare will in one way or the other might like the movie. The movie offers few nice jokes, not good enough, and the rest of the jokes range from filthy to terrible and obtuse. 

Advise: Before going for this movie, throw away the expectations that were born after watching “Borat” or even “Ali G”. Life will be good, if the expectations will be lesser.

Rating: 5.5/10

When to Set Sales Performance Reviews

What Do We Mean By Sales Performance?

Sales is the life blood of any business, no matter smallest in the industry to the biggest giant. With out sales there exists neither any present nor any future of the company. Sales give birth to a phenomenon of Sales Performance. Sales performance can easily establish the capacity of any person associated with the field of sales, to finalise the contract with the company and meet the already given goals from the company. Sales performance is a double edged knife; it can trigger the career of the sales employee and on the same time can make him lose the job.

Important Factors For Sales Performance

Sales performance is based on countless factors and elements. Most of these make a combination of two or three factors in a set. Some of the characteristics are internal, whereas the others are external, these factors could namely be satisfaction towards the job, motivational level, ability and skills, age range, gender, time consumption and customer’s response.  In most of the organizations the role of management and managerial supervisor also play a strong factor, towards the performance of the sales personnel.

Sales Performance is Beneficial for Sales Personnel

Almost every individual works for the monetary reasons. Especially in the field of sales it’s all about gaining more and more monetary appraisal. Companies provide a good remunerations for the sales employees who out do their selves. The rewards can be in the form of many different packages; in some cases sales employees are given a fat amount, title of the employee of the month and year, increased salaries and bonuses etc.

Methods of Reviewing Sales Performance

There are particular tools and techniques for reviewing the sales performances, its’ better to be pro-active rather then to be on the re-active side of the game. One method is Informal Reviews, in which a simple dialogue usually takes place with the employees inquiring about the previous years’ experience in terms of sales with respect to the company’s standing.  The second method is known as the Journaling, in this method, a journal is maintained in which all the activities, responses and tactics are jotted down, so as to know about the employees and later they can be matched with other sales employees, to see if the things are different or similar. By this better approaches can be adopted. This really helps in developing one’s own skill set and before hand knowing the performance track. The third in the line is Peer Review, as the title itself suggests that in these techniques, peers and co-workers in sales review and judge the performance of the other sales personnel, it can at times be very beneficial and at times it’s very biased. The fourth method is the Detailed Review, it includes numeric values mostly, and apart from that what are the past sales performance trends and what were the hurdles faced, along with the preference of sales over phones or e-mails.

Important Steps for Increased Sales Performance

To extract the best performance from the employees in sales is always desired from the management. Sales Management should adopt certain steps including setting up the metrics (like, making calls to the clients, visiting them, planning a meeting time and outcome of the visit). Future can always be predicted from the past. Similarly keeping a track of earlier practices with respect to the particular metric it makes it easier to develop a game plan. By this, sales personnel are bifurcated in to different levels of top performers, middle level and below average performers. Companies and management should keep the real and achievable targets to expect a positive feed back and response from the sales employees. On the contrary, by keeping a low target also helps in achieving desirable goals set for the sales.