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Cocktail
Critic reviews and ratings
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...what Cocktail should be truly applauded for is its permissiveness. As a film it breaks shackles and ushers in a new free spirit that Gen-Now will relate to.
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Whatever the flaws and dips in energy-level, Cocktail is a feel-wonderful movie. Shakeit, stir it and get nicely woozy.
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He (Imtiaz Ali) creates a love triangle that references Archie's comics, the 1980s television show Three's Company and the oeuvre of Aditya Chopra-Karan Johar (foreign locales, decadent Western lifestyle, superior Indian values) and yet feels new.
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...has a fascinating first half, charismatic performances, harmonious music and the trendy look and styling as its aces, but the second half is not as tempting or intoxicating as the first hour.
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You can’t hate a film like Cocktail nor can you love it in totality.
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...has just the right mix of fizz and flavour to allow the occasional and inevitable crinkles of triteness to flow well below the surface.
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A well-crafted, well-acted three-way urban romance that makes you long for more.
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...can make for a decent time-pass watch if you have the capacity to digest the cliched melodrama.
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Nice while the fizz lasts.
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...bubbly in the first half, boring in the second, pretending to be free-thinking but actually narrow-minded and stereotypical to the core.
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The film is well-packaged and looks good. But the story disappoints. Humour is consistent but not as funny as in other rom-coms.
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...has a handful of moments and a few genuine sparks, but finally crashes and burns so spectacularly that it's hard to focus on the positives.
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...no fizz, no punch, but a good presentation...
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A promising start meets a generic, uninteresting end.
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There isn’t much in Cocktail for us to take home except the feeling of having watched a pleasant and warm love story that does not take our sensibilities for granted nor overdoes the gloss as a compensation for real romance.
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With the right ingredients in the right proportions, this might have made for a smooth concoction. But Cocktail is a mostly flat romance; one that could've done with more heart.
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...writer Imtiaz Ali dilutes this vision and goes on to self-censor, Indianise, romanticise, emotionalise, ergo commercialise the experience and give us a 1 part alcohol and 10 part water cocktail, an exercise in pointlessness.
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When you see two pretty chicks and a hunk prancing around in foreign locales looking deliriously happy singing about deep friendship, you know, of course, what to expect.
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It hurtles along the same old path most of its breed do. And somehow, a film that’s sidestepped melodrama for the first hour or so, turns maudlin.
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...once you are done with gushing about the picturesque locales, the hollowness of the subject dawns on you and it is not a good feeling. All the gloss and sauce fail to make us feel for any of the characters because their transitions don’t pass muster.
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...feels like two different films. Pre-interval, it could have snatched 3 stars, but the post-interval bit spoils the show entirely.
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A smart romcom with three beautiful people gets all confused once it drags Indian values in.
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...is too long, too taxing - after a point, we know exactly what’s coming, and we just wish it came soon enough.
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...meant for the 20-something audience, is not a breezy watch. As a romcom, it fails in that essential criteria.
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