Reviewed by: Dare Devil Kid (DDK)
Rating: 0.5/5 stars
Dreadful, banal, trite, and a total waste of time - this has got to be Akshay Kumar's worst movie bar none. The jokes are unbearably bad and fall completely flat - the humor is not just cringe-worthy, it's blatantly forced and absolutely mind-numbing. Sample few of these lines – "I Rajni-can't", "Jaisi bharni waisi Mamta Kulkarni", "Tere to Jacq- ueline lag gaye", "Yeh Sonakshi- seena tan ke kaha ja rahe ho".
The plot and narration are not just non-existent, they reach the point where you actually question your decision of falling for the whole ruse of leaving your brains elsewhere and watching the film - something such films and filmmakers pride themselves on these days; whatever is their reasoning I wouldn't even dare to comprehend it. You regret your decision to the point where realization grabs a hold of you - and you don't have to wait for too long into the movie for this realization to dawn upon you – that this is where you should have drawn the line of falling for the whole "leave your brains behind" ho-hum. You now understand the difference between not using your brains while watching a simple, entertaining movie (read analyzing every single scene of a movie just meant to entertain you), and wantonly repressing your commonsense to be blindly follow the tide. More was expected from Director-writer duo, Sajid-Farhad, as they have delivered decent efforts in the past such as "All The Best", "Housefull 2", " Bol Bachchan", and "Chennai Express". Guess, this highlights the need of a competent Director to handle a script (Rohit Shetty has directed most of their erstwhile screenplays).
Barring Akshay Kumar and Johnny Lever, every other actor on screen completely hashes their parts, which may again be in part due to the Director duo's briefing of their roles. Alas, despite Kumar and Lever bringing all their experience to the fore and somehow managing to salvage their weakly scripted parts, they can't do enough to salvage the deplorable proceedings on film. Krsihna Abhishek is the worst of the lot. He isn't just over-the-top - which is necessary for some characterizations – he completely over-the-hill and comes across as jarring and garish. Goes to show that every stand-up comedian isn't automatically suited for big-screen comedic roles. Making people laugh on stage with a stand-up act and performing before the camera are two very disparate things. Prakash Raj and Sonu Sood are completely wasted, while Tamannaah Bhatia still can't act to save her life– which isn't half as bad cause she at least delivers what we expect from her, something that can't be said for anything else unfolding on screen. Mithun Chakraborty is given the most poorly written role and hackneyed dialogs of his career, and he hams it up to the point that you forget this is after all a 3-time National Award winning and 2-time Filmfare winning actor.
If "Entertainment" could be summed up in one sentence, then this statement would do it justice: "Avoid at all cost if you possess even a semblance of commonsense and value its existence as part of what helps you think as a rational human being."
Rating: 0.5/5 stars
Dreadful, banal, trite, and a total waste of time - this has got to be Akshay Kumar's worst movie bar none. The jokes are unbearably bad and fall completely flat - the humor is not just cringe-worthy, it's blatantly forced and absolutely mind-numbing. Sample few of these lines – "I Rajni-can't", "Jaisi bharni waisi Mamta Kulkarni", "Tere to Jacq- ueline lag gaye", "Yeh Sonakshi- seena tan ke kaha ja rahe ho".
The plot and narration are not just non-existent, they reach the point where you actually question your decision of falling for the whole ruse of leaving your brains elsewhere and watching the film - something such films and filmmakers pride themselves on these days; whatever is their reasoning I wouldn't even dare to comprehend it. You regret your decision to the point where realization grabs a hold of you - and you don't have to wait for too long into the movie for this realization to dawn upon you – that this is where you should have drawn the line of falling for the whole "leave your brains behind" ho-hum. You now understand the difference between not using your brains while watching a simple, entertaining movie (read analyzing every single scene of a movie just meant to entertain you), and wantonly repressing your commonsense to be blindly follow the tide. More was expected from Director-writer duo, Sajid-Farhad, as they have delivered decent efforts in the past such as "All The Best", "Housefull 2", " Bol Bachchan", and "Chennai Express". Guess, this highlights the need of a competent Director to handle a script (Rohit Shetty has directed most of their erstwhile screenplays).
Barring Akshay Kumar and Johnny Lever, every other actor on screen completely hashes their parts, which may again be in part due to the Director duo's briefing of their roles. Alas, despite Kumar and Lever bringing all their experience to the fore and somehow managing to salvage their weakly scripted parts, they can't do enough to salvage the deplorable proceedings on film. Krsihna Abhishek is the worst of the lot. He isn't just over-the-top - which is necessary for some characterizations – he completely over-the-hill and comes across as jarring and garish. Goes to show that every stand-up comedian isn't automatically suited for big-screen comedic roles. Making people laugh on stage with a stand-up act and performing before the camera are two very disparate things. Prakash Raj and Sonu Sood are completely wasted, while Tamannaah Bhatia still can't act to save her life– which isn't half as bad cause she at least delivers what we expect from her, something that can't be said for anything else unfolding on screen. Mithun Chakraborty is given the most poorly written role and hackneyed dialogs of his career, and he hams it up to the point that you forget this is after all a 3-time National Award winning and 2-time Filmfare winning actor.
If "Entertainment" could be summed up in one sentence, then this statement would do it justice: "Avoid at all cost if you possess even a semblance of commonsense and value its existence as part of what helps you think as a rational human being."