I went to see this movie on the basis of Times of India review that gave three stars to the movie. But, the movie proved to be a real dampener.
I would start with the names of the filmmaking crew.
Star cast: John Abraham and Priyanka Chopra
Director: Absent
Producer: Has run away
John Abrahim plays the role of a contract killer and Priyanka Chopra the role of his beloved. The movie starts with the introduction of John and his gang. John has to murder somebody. But, along with the victim he ends up murdering three innocent members of the family -the husband, wife and one daughter. The other daughter is safe. He feels guilty about murdering the daughter and hence wants to leave the business of contract killing. But, this is not to be. The gang head wants him to carry out his large assignment, which involves killing of 4-5 people. John refuses and hence the gang head kidnaps Priyanka Chopra.Would John carry out this assignment? Up to this point, the movie looks promising but then it falters badly.
Then, it consists of mindless action, which involves dumb scenes like John hanging 100 metres above the ground, him jumping from 4 floors, him just kicking people and whoa- they get killed. Though many Hindi movies consist of such scenes, at least they may be good in the balance part. This one isn?t. The villain too seems to be out of this world- a far cry from realistic portrayal of villains in films like Satya.
The acting by John Abraham and Priyanka is strictly o.k. It ranges from average to poor. The child actors have done the best acting! There are absolutely no comedy scenes in the movie. The only comedy scene is an emotional scene where priyanka sings Tinka Tinka on the phone in the second half. There is nothing worthwhile in its songs. The only song worth mentioning is the title song, which is in Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan mould.
There are only two positive aspects of the movie-one is real and the other is not so real. One scene in which John kills the girl and her family is terrifically shot. You really feel the horror of an innocent girl getting killed. Another is that the film ends in around 2 hours 5 minutes- so an early end to your torture.
One thought that came to my mind after watching the movie is that I must have committed many bad karams that I had to watch this movie. So, I made a resolution that I would do only good karams so that God saves me from watching such movies in future. This is the first good karam I am doing after making such a resolution- writing this review so as to warn you that you should not commit the bad karam of watching this film!