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Maximum
Critic reviews and ratings
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Director Kabeer Kaushik, has a good force of actors here and a gripping premise, but he doesn't quite lead the way.
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Maximum needed a more imaginative title. That single word does little to convey the quiet grimness of this violent-yet-mellow film that has stayed with me since I saw it.
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...is a case of too much blood and blabber being wasted on a tale that has been flogged to death to such an extent that it is probably now a veritable carcass rotting in the Bollywood sun. No amount of social and political layering can dispel the rancid odour.
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The business and underworld of the Indian police department is showcased with style and great performances. But it still feels same-ol' same-ol', just the jobs of the people doing it is the same.
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...lacks the nuanced detailing and the urgent pacing that should have automatically sprung from a theme yanked out of the internal files of a highly politicised police force.
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Inevitably, then, that oppressive feeling of the deja phew, incites you to wonder – why another addition to a sub-genre that’s been flogged to pulp?
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Ticking all boxes you expect from a film belonging to the genre, Maximum ends up as a ‘me too’ among many RGV-inspired films in the last few years, even though that may not have been the intention. Sadly, there was potential.
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...has an attention-grabbing premise, but lacks the meat in its screenplay to leave much of an impact.
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Turns out to be a dampener. Not because it doesn’t have interesting actors. Nor because it doesn’t have interesting situations. But because it comes off merely as 'Seher' redux, minus its power.
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This police department politics story had the potential to become a gripping drama about morality and justice. But it stays indifferent and lacklustre.
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...fails to be the dirty cop saga it had promised to be.
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...could have been so much better.
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...a film that comes in a decade too late.
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Can we all agree that Bollywood has squeezed as much cinema as is humanly possible out of Mumbai’s infamous encounter cops, their weasel-faced informers and the police-politician-builder-underworld nexus?
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There are a couple of gripping moments but they come in too late, way after our interest in the film is long dead.
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Maximum's problems start right up front. You have no idea where the story is heading because there is no crisis created, no path or goal imagined.
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...has all the right ingredients, but with several layers of extra garnish, it tastes wrong.
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Had the director Kabeer Kaushik done little more than chart the story of his protagonist, Maximum could have ended up a gripping little film.
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Somewhere in the 90 minutes is a story that tells us nothing new or fascinating about the nexus between the cops and the underworld.
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...has minimum entertainment and maximum mediocrity.
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...brings no novelty to the viewer and ends up being just another hackneyed affair.
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...an interesting idea that sadly doesn’t translate into a coherent film.
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The script is a mess, and the film depends more on stylized shots and plenty of posturing.
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The intent was to make a slick cop caper. Sadly, nothing works...
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The idea of corrupt cops facing off against each other can be a fine one, but mired here in the midst of people saying things really really slowly, it loses its steam.
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