Memo to self: avoid at all costs any film directed by Anees Bazmee.
If you look at his filmography as a director, after some promising films early on in his career, he has turned out some incredibly trite rubbish. The last decent film he did was probably No Entry but since then it has been a downward spiral of rubbish culminating in Thank you and Ready. It is hard to know which is worse.
His record as a writer is probably even worse than his record as a director, so this film suffers the double whammy of tremendously poor direction and a tremendously poor script. Whoever pegged this film for production must have had rocks in their head. The whole film dies by its awful script. Unbelievable, contrived rubbish that gave the actors (using the term very loosely) anything to work with.
The one thing that Akshay Kumar does not need is poor material to work with. Nowadays he struggles with even good material - with bad material the "acting" is reduced to tear-inducing cringe-worthy awfulness. Not that Akshay is the only culprit here.
Sonam Kapoor might be high up in the eye-candy stakes but as an actor she needs good direction. Suffice to say that it is sadly lacking here and so her performance ends up almost like a melodramatic parody. Now don't get me wrong, I like Sonam and she has done some decent stuff but I fear that this represents a very bad choice for her acting career.
Of the rest, I sort of get the impression that Bobby Deol, Irrfan Khan and Sunil Shetty were simply going through the motions for a pay check. They are competent enough but these are performances certainly not worthy of their talents.
So basically, bad direction, lousy story, mediocre at best acting, what else could be wrong? Well, put it this way, when the cameos by Vidya Balan and Mallika Sherawat to a lesser extent are the highlights, then pretty much everything.
All in all an extremely poor film in nearly every respect and one not worthy of even catching for fans of the leads. Avoid at all costs would be the only way to describe this (3/10 score simply because its got the cameos from Vidya Balan and Mallika Sherawat - without them it would be 1/10 at best).
If you look at his filmography as a director, after some promising films early on in his career, he has turned out some incredibly trite rubbish. The last decent film he did was probably No Entry but since then it has been a downward spiral of rubbish culminating in Thank you and Ready. It is hard to know which is worse.
His record as a writer is probably even worse than his record as a director, so this film suffers the double whammy of tremendously poor direction and a tremendously poor script. Whoever pegged this film for production must have had rocks in their head. The whole film dies by its awful script. Unbelievable, contrived rubbish that gave the actors (using the term very loosely) anything to work with.
The one thing that Akshay Kumar does not need is poor material to work with. Nowadays he struggles with even good material - with bad material the "acting" is reduced to tear-inducing cringe-worthy awfulness. Not that Akshay is the only culprit here.
Sonam Kapoor might be high up in the eye-candy stakes but as an actor she needs good direction. Suffice to say that it is sadly lacking here and so her performance ends up almost like a melodramatic parody. Now don't get me wrong, I like Sonam and she has done some decent stuff but I fear that this represents a very bad choice for her acting career.
Of the rest, I sort of get the impression that Bobby Deol, Irrfan Khan and Sunil Shetty were simply going through the motions for a pay check. They are competent enough but these are performances certainly not worthy of their talents.
So basically, bad direction, lousy story, mediocre at best acting, what else could be wrong? Well, put it this way, when the cameos by Vidya Balan and Mallika Sherawat to a lesser extent are the highlights, then pretty much everything.
All in all an extremely poor film in nearly every respect and one not worthy of even catching for fans of the leads. Avoid at all costs would be the only way to describe this (3/10 score simply because its got the cameos from Vidya Balan and Mallika Sherawat - without them it would be 1/10 at best).