Review of Dishoom (2016) by Thegodfatherson — 01 Aug 2016

This muddled film's mostly noticeable low is the music. Rubbish lyrics placed on top of catchy beats adds nothing to Dishoom, yet another Indian movie which does action entertainers wrong. Action and music aside, the film also features a John Abraham who always whips out his cigarette to look "cool", he has done that before, but it gets so frequent, that you wish he puts that cancerous stick back in his pocket.

Story follows an important Indian cricketer, who gets kidnapped, a day before a final match between sour rivals, India and Pakistan. Cue in two cops who have 36 hours to locate him and save him from a twisted Pakistani fan, who will do anything to make his team win.

Varun Dhawan plays the same "sweet, patriotic and talkative" guy who throws cringy one liners on the daily. John Abraham is a cop who smokes a lot, and the rest of the cast are dissolved into the mess that this film, including Jacqueline Fernandez.

Action scenes feel rushed and overdone, acting is horrible and the music, is downright terrible. After all the controversy, the hype and the star studded cast backing it, Dishoom is a huge mess. It does nothing right, and absolutely scores all the marks in doing it wrong.

The film plays itself too safe, and that sacrifices the substance needed to make a great action movie. Although it does feature a decent Akshaye Khanna, but even that cannot save this film from being the crap it already is.

Forget it this weekend.