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John Day
Critic reviews and ratings
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...a razor-sharp thriller with an engaging screenplay, high-voltage drama and sterling performances as its aces.
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...a crackling, mind-bending thriller packed with impressive performances that deserves to be watched!
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...can’t be described as an admirable work. It is certainly not meant for the squeamish or the 'Chennai Express' constituency. Yet, neither is it dismissable as an average, formula thriller. It has it engaging moments.
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It's gripping but like the characters, the plot is way too ambiguous, deceitful and tedious for your liking.
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Too many themes, too little meat.
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The first half of the film manages to keep you hooked to the story but in the second half the pace dips drastically.
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The actors make John Day worthwhile.
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Ahishor Solomon, however, crackles in the first 45 minutes, setting up the plot to a nicety, building scenes and sequences giving one a sense of a slick-thriller. Unfortunately, his characters [and their motives] that follow fail to link convincingly to the preamble, thus making the entire exercise crumble like a pack of cards.
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...seems lost in its own maze of self-indulgence.
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...claims to be an "edge of the seat thriller" on its poster. Considering the makers didn't set out to make one in the first place, one wonders how convinced they were about their own effort.
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...a half-baked effort with sporadic moments of brilliance and leaves you with an aftertaste of what could have been.
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...you have to say that the charisma of the two central actors holds you to your seat till the end.
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...potentially appearing to be a great, racy thriller, John Day ends up being a yawn-fest you just want to get over with.
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Director Ahishor Solomon is clearly well-intentioned and not without talent, but he fails to bring it all together into a compelling, convincing whole.
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The film then is sloppy and contrived; it's an unoriginal and uninspiring thriller that's let down by flabby writing.
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...gross-out violent, cartoonish and even unintentionally funny.
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The trouble is that there is no coherent plot to hang all of this on, it's just a series of jumbled scenes with too many characters walking in and out, or limping in and out, or being shot at and huddling about in bloody heaps.
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Logic, pace and tautness are the main ingredients of a thriller and Solomon’s work disappoints on all the three counts.
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...fails as a thriller.
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