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Rocky Handsome
Critic reviews and ratings
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A well-made action thriller!
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...a sumptuous feast for action-lovers. Watch it if you swear by punches and kicks and special, hitherto-unseen-in-Hindi-films martial arts.
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...high on style and visual gratification, but low on substance and passion.
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It is a classic case of style over substance. And sadly, it doesn't look stylish either. The Hindi remake of a Korean film struggles to blend action and emotion.
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Action choreographers do their job best. The rest couldn't be bothered.
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...despite good performances from the leading cast, the film fails to hold the viewers' interest.
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The film’s biggest drawback is Nishikant’s inability to connect the action with the emotion in the film despite the fact that he had all the material.
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...a very average film with some finely executed action sequences on display.
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The movie is so busy falling over itself to look stylish and slick that it forgets to focus on the emotional aspect altogether.
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...a slick, stylistically derivative neo-noir thriller that is surprisingly humdrum.
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...a film so mindlessly gory that we even forget what triggered it all.
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But a film can work only if the viewer is emotionally invested in the character and their journey. That’s the reason Rocky Handsome doesn’t work neither as an emotional drama nor an action flick.
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This is lazy film-making of the highest order, and the only thing that deserves any mention are the relentlessly violent but riveting action scenes, including a few stylishly shot rain sequences.
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Way too much time and effort is spent showcasing the leading man — John’s body is a no-carb miracle and Kamat fetishises it.
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...limp and spiritless.
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Style and stunts play a big role in action movies. But you can't discount other aspects of filmmaking just to make an action film that looks sexy.
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An adaptation can always be done with one’s own distinct touch. But Rocky Handsome is happy and satisfied in living off borrowed aesthetics even while clinging to its Indian self for all the wrong reasons. It ends up being neither here nor there.
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...I am still trying to understand what this movie was all about.
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...proves that it is possible to pay good money for an official remake of a South Korean hit rather than pilfer the plot, as Bollywood has done in the past, and still botch it up.
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...executed so laughably, so over the the top that there's unintentional laughter instead of tension.
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Remind me again, why are we watching this one?
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The punch-by-numbers action scenes are not enough to save a poorly adapted film with poorly pitched performances, out-of-tune casting and tacky execution.
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...if Sanjay Gupta and Sanjay Leela Bhansali had a baby, it’d look like this movie.
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