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Baadshaho
Critic reviews and ratings
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...is a nice package of great dialogues, amazing visuals, efficient direction, superlative performances, exciting action and tension-filled drama.
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If you're an action junkie who has no loyalty to any particular actor, this could be your big-ticket ride.
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...may not be a smart film, but it’s a reasonably savvy daft one, inventive enough to revisit a key event from multiple perspectives and silly enough to have Mishra pick a safe in horse blinkers.
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A formulaic plot, heavy-duty dialoguebaazi and characters with ulterior motives, collectively make this 136-minute celluloid attack on the senses much to endure.
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Even as it serves up all the tricks in the commercial cinema book, it never quite connects with the audience. The thrills pan out like empty stunts without the right emotion.
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Delivers a story with lots of style - in the first half. Alas, you come to expect what happens in the last hour and lose the thrill along the way.
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Only it’s 2017 not the 70s, and whatever you might do – add some spit-and-polish and intrigue and new faces, and create funny dialogues – the film comes off as old wine, in a not very new bottle, which we have to sip for over 2.5 hours.
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Lacking in those seeti bajao, paisa vasool moments, the movie is just a parade of buffoonery going nowhere and gasping for help amidst the blast and noise.
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...definitely has an interesting premise, but execution of the plot turns out to be the big hurdle.
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For a heist film, the thrills and chills are missing and the film falls flat post interval.
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...has too many ordinarily written characters jostling for whistle-worthy one-liners for 136-minutes. Eventually they run short of the steam and Baadshaho becomes a rehashed ‘90s story with some gloss and a lot of disappointment.
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Baadshaho's finale unfolds in a sandstorm and is the one scene that is visually arresting, though the story loses itself somewhere within the vortex.
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If you are willing to buy into the ridiculous premise, the first half has moments of fun but in the second, Baadshaho becomes like a flat comic book.
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There is no dearth of surface gloss in Badshaho. A peep behind the glossy curtain reveals an overcooked but bland curry western that deserves instant banishment to the wilderness it has emerged from.
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The story is so boringly predictable...
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15 years ago Baadshaho might not have been an awful film, but today it feels sexist, formulaic and completely outdated.
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It is a case of how a good ol' masala entertainer, which otherwise could have been an enjoyable affair thanks to its action sequences and some seeti maar dialogues, has gone wrong - once again, reiterating the importance of sharp writing in a thriller.
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...Baadshaho's sluggish screenplay and humourless rhythm are spectacularly low on swagger and daredevilry as well.
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...the main culprit is the execution that is so jaded and predictable that even if you dozed off and woke up after an hour, you would know exactly what’s happening on the screen.
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The plot twist can be called from afar, rendering the whole journey and the final destination entirely meaningless. The nonstop action is a distraction for a lack of narrative.
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...is a masala film that doesn’t get a single spice right.
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...promises B-movie entertainment, but the action scenes are unexciting, the writing is awful.
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