It feels like it was written by a child, so that's kind of an apt description.
The action's alright - this is being promoted as an action film. Dev Patel as a fighter? That's where my suspension of disbelief went out the window - although that was also hindered by watching Dev's promo appearances and he's definitely not coming across as an action hero in those.
The story is an overly simplistic tale of goodies versus baddies, with any luck the script writer will move on to joined up writing in the next few years and step up to do a Fast and Furious movie. A weird representation of India showing "ultra rich" areas and seemingly pretending to show "poor" areas - now, if you've been to India you'll know this is an ultra-sanitised version of what you'd actually see - the only element of truth I saw in that was that everyone seems to chain smoke. Streets like open running sewers? Can't show that. Sexual assault as if it were an Olympic competition? Can't show that either.
Dishonest film making.
The action's alright - this is being promoted as an action film. Dev Patel as a fighter? That's where my suspension of disbelief went out the window - although that was also hindered by watching Dev's promo appearances and he's definitely not coming across as an action hero in those.
The story is an overly simplistic tale of goodies versus baddies, with any luck the script writer will move on to joined up writing in the next few years and step up to do a Fast and Furious movie. A weird representation of India showing "ultra rich" areas and seemingly pretending to show "poor" areas - now, if you've been to India you'll know this is an ultra-sanitised version of what you'd actually see - the only element of truth I saw in that was that everyone seems to chain smoke. Streets like open running sewers? Can't show that. Sexual assault as if it were an Olympic competition? Can't show that either.
Dishonest film making.
