Cast: Ajay Devgn, Sonakshi Sinha
Director : Prabhudeva
Length : 2 hrs and 25
minutes approx.
“Action Jackson” is like that of an uncooked crude platter
of rice – you know its your staple food, but you just cant digest it. The film
is so painfully bad that it disheartens to see someone like Ajay Devgn doing
mundane action scenes, some of them have a musical background score only to
haunt you that this film can go anywhere, and then comedy which even a kindergarten
child will not laugh upon.
The film has a very easy template and the director’s work is
awful. The way the scenes are shot and edited I only wish that the editor and
the director takes a strong introspection lesson. Poor Sonakshi Sinha, who is
in a self-destructing mode in her career, submits herself to the pedestrian culture
of the film and we find her adjusting to unfunny and tasteless double meaning
gags. I wouldn’t have mind them if they weren’t as clunked and overdone.
Seriously, what were they making! “Action Jackson” is that kind of film where
everything regarding the film is wrong.
The second half of the film is particularly trash- Manasvi
playing a negative shade is so unintentionally that I wish the film was about
her character. She is desperate, she is selfless for her man and she can only
talk in seductive language even if you ask her to sing “Twinkle Twinkle little
star”. The film is so dragged and boring that mercy is the only thing you ask
for. In the wait of something magical to happen, “Action Jackson” tortures us
for roughly 145 minutes.
The film has couple of humming songs and got nice tunes but
there are as many as 7 of them and the way the songs are introduced, it looked
like some piece of scenes between song albums. The action is disappointing to
any degree because to be honest I have seen much more edgy and thrilling action
in Amitabh Bachchan’s films when technology was not even in the periphery. The
dialogue writers should be paid more money so that they can go and learn some
dialogues. I mean come on – what do I have to react when the hero says – “Its
my way or skyway”?
The film is a dud in every aspect. Ajay Devgn is
uncomfortable like anything. You can easily pick out the scenes where he’s
trying too hard. Its only Kunal Kapoor who delivers couple of genuinely funny
scenes and mind you these are the only good scenes in this film.
To give Sajid Khan credit, I must say “Himmatwala” wasn’t
really as unbearable as this film. Even “Humshakals” for once wasn’t atleast
offensive. But “Action Jackson” is a real pain. It takes a leaf from films like
“Rowdy Rathore” and “Ghajini”, both of which are one of the best entertainers
in this genre in last decade, and still the film pales and how!
I thought I was declaring “Shaukeens” as worst of 2014. But “Action
Jackson” takes the cake. The only reason to go and watch “Action Jackson” in theatre
is if your own Air conditioner is not working and you desperately need to
sleep.
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