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Blank
Critic reviews and ratings
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The movie has flashes of promise but just as many, if not more, moments of amateur execution.
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...given its premise, the film had the potential to be an edge-of-the-seat thriller, if only the writing and execution could have been better.
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...is well directed and performed and is based on the relatable events of terrorism.
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All the spiffiness, sadly, stays on the surface, leaving Blank groping for purpose.
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...could have been sharper and crisper, had the makers not gotten overexcited with Sunny Deol starring in the film, who just drowns out everyone else.
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Writer-director Behzad Khambata seems to have a healthy appetite for police procedurals and is aware of the basic construct required to make them tick. But in 2019, sticking to tropes can hardly trigger an exciting watch and the supposed turn in the climax seems more ridiculous than rational to be palatable.
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Khambata’s direction is choppy and at best gives us a film that resembles the television show CID rather than a riveting high octane thriller.
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The point behind this poorly made wingding is a debut. Karan Kapadia is Dimple Kapadia's nephew and the late actress-turned-costume designer Simple Kapadia's son.
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...this could have been pulpy fun and there is some promise. The hand-to-hand combat sequences are shot grungily, with extreme close-ups, but while Blank wants to be a heavy metal movie, it is basically a kid with a noisy amp.
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The trick to making us swallow improbable ploys is slick treatment, and keeping everything moving chop-chop. On both counts, the film largely draws a blank.
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...Blank isn’t merely an adjective, it’s an entire sensibility. Which, as you can imagine, makes for a pretty dull movie.
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...feels like a film constantly catching up with itself.
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...is a hit-and-miss. It is a great debut for Karan Kapadia though, who despite the presence of a seasoned actor in Sunny Deol, stands out as the star of the film.
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...has the plotting heft and production values of an episode on the popular television series CID.
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...eventually doesn’t rise above being a stilted “bad Muslim” narrative.
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...the title of this film could be referring to the expressions of its lead actors or the feeling one has after watching this thriller.
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