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Bhoot – Part One: The Haunted Ship
Critic reviews and ratings
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Applying more efforts in the writing department would have turned it into a genuinely scary movie. It's said to be the first part so let's hope director Bhanu Pratap Singh learns from the mistakes and does a better job while bringing out the instalment...
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...is a decent sonically atmospheric scare fest having Vicky Kaushal delivering an ‘arresting’ act. It offers something different from the routine Bollywood scares.
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The first half keeps you on the edge of your seat. Unfortunately, the second half comes crashing down.
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While the film’s runtime is short, the pace seems exhausting because most of the scenes are concluded abruptly, leaving you waiting for the big reveal. However, the all-important backstory isn’t convincing enough to make your wait worth it.
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...manages to intermittently hold one’s attention and engineers terrifying situations, but fails to keep up throughout its runtime.
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...has its high and low points, but doesn’t leave you craving for more. Watch it for a good performance from Vicky Kaushal but avid lovers of the genre will go back disappointed.
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The absence of a strongly plotted emotional undertow to convey the idea that personal loss can lead to a never-ending nightmare of literally monstrous proportions results in a half-full vessel that makes some noise.
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It keeps slipping back to normal, after a few jolting sequences thrown in. There's much back-story — as if you're meant to care.
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...has a few wins but it still falls short of sending chills down your spine.
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Vicky Kaushal and jump scares manage to hold things together well till the Dharma vessel derails in the second half.
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I am as disappointed to report as I am glad that I didn’t get scared once through the two hours.
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...is not unwatchable, but fails to make an impact on the viewer.
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Bhanu plays with the usual horror tropes – creaking doors, found footage, mirrors, children, dolls and cell-phones not working exactly when you need them. Which isn’t the problem. You pretty much sign up for this when you go into a horror film. The trouble is that beyond the first hour, the screenplay gets repetitive and increasingly silly.
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...suffers from a half-baked plot and a flawed narrative which leaves viewers confused.
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Within its murky labyrinth, with no sense of any direction from writer-director Bhanu Pratap Singh, the film doesn’t seem to end. There is a ghost, a love story, a hate story, a smuggling ring, a church, a red dress, a doll, and a lot of clicking of fingers.
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Only the very, very faint-hearted will find its jump scares worth the din that surrounds them. For the rest, Bhoot: Part One is akin to a ride on a stranded ship. You start at point A and end at point A and, what's worse, with a headache you could have done without.
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...is drape and dreadfully boring.
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