Reviews

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Let's start with the plot (or plothole), Madhavan, as shown in the film needs the parents to send off their girl by saying some black magic verses, he won't leave until he gets their consent & he has 108 girls under his spell in this movie, so I still wonder if he visited families of all these girls to get their parents approval & no one but our hero is the only one pursuing him!! There were 57 cases registered and police are unable to find this crowd of 100 odd girls, this is beyond belief!!

If the 'getting approval' bit is removed there's nothing else in the film, the whole sequence in the house, which is 1:30 mins at least just feels like added for shock value.

Acting wise, Madhavan was alright and so was the girl who was under his spell, but I felt the parents could have done better/different but they were in shock throughout the film. They should have been a bit smarter and try to engage Madhavan & tie the girl up, cover her ears, tie up Madhavan and cover his mouth, torture him probably to know how to undo the spell.

Good thing is movie does not have any songs and stays focussed on the plot and has a satisfying ending.

If you are patient & can bear seeing innocent kids getting beaten up, then it's a one time watch, otherwise avoid.

The movie starts off alright, but falls flat towards the end. The climax would not have happened if Tapsree's character had not insisted on returning home after being operated on, against doctor's advice; why would any one who cant see return to a place they are not familiar with, especially when there's no one else living there. On top of that, not showing the killer's face after he appears on screen makes it obivious he's the killer.

I have not seen the original Spanish film so cant comment if the above mentioned logical flaw is in the original as well.

This movie is similar to Dobaara, which was disappointing as well.

Boolywood need to learn to adapt movies better if they are remaking international movies, a simple copy & paste of story and screenplay is not sufficent.

The movie is just about okish, nothing to write home about. Not much of story here, and dialogues were disappointing and felt like was written on the scene, left no impact whatsoever. And climax, not sure what to make if it, looks like Love is the shortcut to conquer all negative forces, when you run out of ideas. They should have just called it Prem-astra lol.

Performance wise no one stands out, even Amitabh whom I totally adore, was just 'sufficient' in the movie, I felt Ranbir was miscast as Shiva, should have been someone younger, felt a bit out of place with him trying to come to terms with his powers, the rest of the kids at the ashram were 1/2 his age. Alia looks gorgeous but has nothing much to do but smile in most scenes, she's so much better than that, only if the makers had watched Gangubai or Raazi, they would have cast somebody else to do this role. The villains in the movie have nothing much to do either as all acting is done by their red lenses & VFX. Presence of SRK & Nagarjuna is just to pull in some crowd but don't have much to do in the movie but die for Shiva to survive.

The good bit is the VFX, but again that is also very limited in variety, possibly, that's what worked in favour of the movie, cramming different types of VFX might have lowered the overall quality of VFX.

Anyway, the movie's made good money to warrant a sequel, hope they do a better job technically on the sequel.

One time watch.

The movie like it's original is not great, but the changes it made to accommodate to Indian audience is good and overall works better as a emotional romantic drama with some comedy. The original was too flat with no one but Hanks carrying the whole movie, surely with some excellent acting. The songs are excellent here and movie did not feel like a drag.

The negative bits are Aamir's acting, especially if you are comparing it to Hanks'. The fact that the same kids play Laal & Rupa's character when they are 7 & 13-14, the Pakistani soldier getting treated in India without anyone realising he's a commander in Pakistani army, to name a few.

The movie has better written role for Kareena Kapoor unlike the original where Robin Wright's character is a supporting one. None of events shown in original resonate with Indian audiences, but the choice of events in this movie is very much India centric and anyone who was raised in 80s-90s can easily identify with them.

Movie is a good one time watch if not more.

P. S: In a normal situation, I would rate this movie 7/10, but since many right wingers have voted it 1 without watching, the extra 3 is to compensate for that.

Extremely disappointed with the movie, expected a lot more from Anurag Kashyap, as I am big fan of his work. Not sure if it's a frame by frame copy of original or just a poor adaptation. I couldn't put the movie in a particular genre; when it started, it felt like sci-fi but clearly a few minutes into the movie, you realise that's not the case, so has to be fantasy if you have to explain most of the plot points in the movie. Which means you can just show anything without giving any explanation and that's what this movie was. And by the end, there's clearly no logical explanation to why things happened how they did like e.g. Why would touching someone flash memories of their time together or why Ponnu's behaviour post the 'communication' moment was irrational.

Felt like watching a Fantasy multiverse movie, where people's (or at least Pannu's character's) consciousness could travel through universe just because of a storm or because she was the lead!!

I would just skip this & watch Kashyap's next outing, hope he does not disappoint with his next one.

The movie is a carbon copy of Ratsasan, they should have tried to fix some of the screenplay/story issues that the original had, like the climax's 'magical' sequences or nobody unable to locate a magician whom they have hired at multiple schools. And I highly doubt someone with the fast ageing condition will be able to do what they do in the movie.

Akshay Kumar is miscast in the movie, he calling Hrishita Bhatt, who's 14 years his junior, didi was a bit too much. The role should have gone to a younger actor like Rajkumar Rao or Ayushman Khurana or someone else but not him.

Rakul Preet also has nothing to do in the movie but look good, and she does that, nothing more, nothing less, looks like she just came out a beauty parlour in every scene. Instead she should have been given the role of the SHO, a love angle is not always necessary, especially in movies like this.

People, who have not seen the original can watch this, it's not a complete waste of time.

Have no idea what writers had in mind, killing off every good character by the end of season 2, leaving the two most disliked characters alive, who are audiences supposed to root for now, if a season 3 is made.

Extremely disappointed with the ending of the season 2, season 1 was well written & paced and ends with some hope for the victims, this one felt more like a horror movie where the villain gets the last laugh.

This is just lame writing, and focusses a lot on the drug business sidelining the revenge and justice angle.

On top of that, with so many bullets fired, it never hits the main characters, even when they have a vantage point.

Where do I even begin on character choices, when Timma had the chance he does not shoot, gets killed by his crush. Why does the DSP not shoot the gangsters but shoots the girl who he's there to arrest, shooting at people with automatic weapons is a crime as well and how is it any smaller than killing the main character.

Even Mirzapur redeemed itself at the end of season 2, but this show has failed miserably.

This season was absolute bullish!t, best to avoid it.

What is it with films like these, first the new Halloween had a 70ish old Mike Myers and now an even older Leatgerface, why can't they just reimagine it with something else, or just stop making it.

I can't imagine a 70 year old killer bumping off people with such ease, on top of that not dying even after being shot, stabbed & drowned. How stupid can these movies (including Halloween) get!!

Stop making these (and people, stop watching, please)

Best avoided IMHO.

The weak part of this series is the acting of Shefali, she was never convincing as the evil doctor, the most annoying part was how she was delivering dialgues, like someone said in a review here, she was trying to seduce or something... its was a LOL moment.

In my personal opinion, she should just stick to doing positive characters, as I really loved in Delhi Crimes and I know is a good actor.

Kirti, looks pretty but does not have many expressions on her face and I feel can't emote through her eyes making it difficult to feel much for her character, but overall she did well.

Vishal Jhetwa & Riddhi Kumar's characters are well written and believable and they play their part well, cant find any fault in their acting.

Story is OK but nothing path breaking, if it was supported by some good acting by the main cast, especially Shefali then it would have been a wonderful show. Overall quality is good, good production values, etc. But nothing memorable.

Good for one time watch, if not seen already :)

I just can't believe a 9 year old killed & cleaned up the murder scene like a pro, what was an enjoyable 7 episodes disappoints in the finale, needed better writing to explain how it was done, to make it convincing. Dad helping out would have been a bit better.

Reminded me of movie Orphan to an extent.

The show has potential but makers should not have gotten greedy and produced an inconclusive season. Show starts at a point which looks like the end of story but when the first season ends you feel far off from that point (or was it just a dream, probably no!!). You just feel you have wasted close to 8 hours getting nowhere in the story.

The main character's characterisation is also not very convincing, at some point you feel he wants to get out but the very next he just goes with the flow. Takes him ages to come to a decision to take 'some' control of his life but you start feeling if it's even worth doing anything now as we have seen his degradation w/o any resistance whatsoever in the previous episodes and will any of what he's doing is even going to work. He just comes off as a common (not smart in anyway) man try to handle situations as it comes along and just lucky to be still alive.

On top of that the other storyline involving his love interest is also left open, so basically everything is just meant for next season, which feel like cheating when the entire season does not provide closure to any of main stories in the show.

If they can follow up the season with a part 2 in the next month or so I don't see much point watching this season.

Don't know how could anyone take this movie seriously. A ghost haunting 4 mobile phones or just the mobile frequency? After watching the movie, I am completely confused what the ghost actually possesed, and what kind of logic is phone staying in the open increasing its negative energy causing the countdown to run faster and when locked inside a Faraday's cage unable to do any countdown... feels like this was this written by some kid!!

This movie does not get anything right TBH, casting is questionable, acting, at best average, story as mentioned above is totally illogical. They should stop calling it a techno horror, lets not call someone's illogical thinking techno and insult technology please.

Avoid and save 2+ hours of your life.

Stylish without any substance, central theme is similar to John Wick & visually it's similar to Jallikattu, but I don't understand one thing when you son/husband is getting brutally beaten, will you just stand there watching or call police? They were watching as if a gladiator match is going on.

It's hard to believe someone who's beaten so brutally, hanged from a tree and drowned in a well manage to gather so much strength to do what he does, felt like Rajni entered his body. And in the end was it all justified, probably no.

It's not a total waste, if you like raw action then you might enjoy it, action sequences are pretty good and well choreographed. Technically, I can't fault the movie much, but overall not impressed. 4* are for action alone.