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Akira
Critic reviews and ratings
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...has the kind of tempting action thriller allure that edges other routine adrenaline with its constant edge of the seat excitement showing Sonakshi Sinha's in a power pack action avatar.
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...is a great effort by director A R Murgadoss. Watch it for its layered mystery and Sonakshi Sinha’s finest performance by far!
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Fiery thriller that doesn't let you think about anything else. For most parts anyway.
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...'Paisa Vasool!'
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...excessive violence and jarring plot holes are too distracting to ignore.
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While Murugadoss leaves a lot to be desired, it is a satisfying one-time watch for an action-junkie.
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...humdrum.
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The film as a whole is, however, patchy. Its facile genre sleights - rogue cops, wronged innocents and bloody confrontations - hit home only sporadically.
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... the writing — by Murugadoss and Santha Kumar — isn’t good enough to give us a memorable heroine.
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...has an interesting concept which fails on the account of its slack screenplay and lack of entertainment value.
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Sonakshi moves, feels and looks the part that’s all but empty heft in a script so extraordinarily dated and bereft of punch.
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All in all, Akira is a dumb commercial potboiler, with a superlative performance by Anurag Kashyap.
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Sinha gets to show off her karate chops and martial arts, but the handful of action sequences are less than inventive. Sinha is far more effective in the emotional scenes.
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...is like any other action movie you’ve seen before, where the hero is framed and has to prove himself right. The difference here is the film’s ability to successfully tell that tale with a girl at its centre.
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Seriously, spare us your fake feminism.
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...built on a weak script that's sorely lacking in subtlety and nuance, the film is ultimately a bore.
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The low-budget, indie vibe that contributed so much to the gritty atmosphere in the original is sacrificed for big-budget razzle-dazzle – everything looks like a set. The film is very broadly staged, like something out of the 1990s – or a TV serial of today.
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The poorly directed action scenes number a handful, with most of the 139-minute running time devoted to contrivances and convolutions that do not do justice to an interesting premise.
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Sonakshi Sinha kicks butt in the A R Murugadoss film but is limited by her role. Despite Anurag Kashyap's deliciously bad performance, Akira falls into a sinkhole.
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...lousy script, tedious length and over the top acting...
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Bored out of my wits, watching these good fellas with hardly anything significant to do, I could only feel a slight kira (insect) up my bum — desperately itching to go home.
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Breaks bones, but not gender stereotypes.
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