I will not beat around the bush and come out and say that I gave this movie, with all its flaws, a very respectable 7/10 and let me explain you why.
First and foremost anybody who knows me or have read my comments or reviews through the years knows that I am against high production Hollywood films. In that regard this film proves exactly my point. You can have a lower budget film and still get the stunts, still get the (however goofy) CGI, still get the girls and the guns and the helicopters and the car chases and the unrealistic fight scenes and jumps etc etc.
I honestly do not know whether this movie is a success because wikipedia shows conflicting information at time of me writing this. I think it cost 35 million Indian denominations to make the film and after week 1, even after being declared a flop? it earned 135 million? And then several million dollars abroad. Keeping that in mind I honestly gave this movie a standing chance.
At face value this movie could not be called an action film. If anything this is Johnny English comedy type matrix copycat, mission impossible and bourne trilogy and err let's throw in an iron man while we are at it, mixed into one flavor.
Watching this film was rather unbearable because it was not really dubbed as it was spoken in Indian-English (which I guess is spanglish in that region) so I very quickly turned subtitles. I love watching subtitle movies so they really did not have to multi-language this one. It was awkward watching it that way. That aside let's look at the movie as a whole.
Main character looks almost a carbon copy of Firefly's Nathan Fillion only with darker skin. And then there is the story line. As goofy as it was, I was actually surprisingly pleased that through most of the movie plot line was completely unpredictable. It's this girl, no it's that girl, no it's that guy... wait he did what? wait a minute... where did that... ohhh... but what about.... this movie kept me guessing all the way to the end.
It was rather funny watching shoot out scenes because in 99% of the cases nobody got shot even after thousands of bullets flying around.
I really hope that proposed sequel does not turn into Ong-Bak 2 which lost all of it's steam after about first 5 minutes because story was identical to the first movie.
As India emerges as an economic stronghold it is really interesting to see how it's cinema grows with it. Bollywood was always known for singing and dancing and some sort of silly love rectangle but it is definitely a pleasant sight to find that it is just as capable producing other things too. If Indian cinema stays on track, I honestly thing that it can follow in the foot steps of South Korea with it's amazing movies that came out in last 10 or so years.
Keep up the good job folks... but err... next time let's try and put a little more thought into this?! It would be better that way. Trust me.
First and foremost anybody who knows me or have read my comments or reviews through the years knows that I am against high production Hollywood films. In that regard this film proves exactly my point. You can have a lower budget film and still get the stunts, still get the (however goofy) CGI, still get the girls and the guns and the helicopters and the car chases and the unrealistic fight scenes and jumps etc etc.
I honestly do not know whether this movie is a success because wikipedia shows conflicting information at time of me writing this. I think it cost 35 million Indian denominations to make the film and after week 1, even after being declared a flop? it earned 135 million? And then several million dollars abroad. Keeping that in mind I honestly gave this movie a standing chance.
At face value this movie could not be called an action film. If anything this is Johnny English comedy type matrix copycat, mission impossible and bourne trilogy and err let's throw in an iron man while we are at it, mixed into one flavor.
Watching this film was rather unbearable because it was not really dubbed as it was spoken in Indian-English (which I guess is spanglish in that region) so I very quickly turned subtitles. I love watching subtitle movies so they really did not have to multi-language this one. It was awkward watching it that way. That aside let's look at the movie as a whole.
Main character looks almost a carbon copy of Firefly's Nathan Fillion only with darker skin. And then there is the story line. As goofy as it was, I was actually surprisingly pleased that through most of the movie plot line was completely unpredictable. It's this girl, no it's that girl, no it's that guy... wait he did what? wait a minute... where did that... ohhh... but what about.... this movie kept me guessing all the way to the end.
It was rather funny watching shoot out scenes because in 99% of the cases nobody got shot even after thousands of bullets flying around.
I really hope that proposed sequel does not turn into Ong-Bak 2 which lost all of it's steam after about first 5 minutes because story was identical to the first movie.
As India emerges as an economic stronghold it is really interesting to see how it's cinema grows with it. Bollywood was always known for singing and dancing and some sort of silly love rectangle but it is definitely a pleasant sight to find that it is just as capable producing other things too. If Indian cinema stays on track, I honestly thing that it can follow in the foot steps of South Korea with it's amazing movies that came out in last 10 or so years.
Keep up the good job folks... but err... next time let's try and put a little more thought into this?! It would be better that way. Trust me.