#Picks&Piques/SnippetFilmReviews/1stAug2014/JohnsonThomas

#Picks&Piques/SnippetFilmReviews/1stAug2014/JohnsonThomas

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#Lateef:TheKingOfCrime(Hindi) Rating: * * Doesn’t live-up to the expectations incurred from such a lofty moniker! About a crime lord from #Ahmedabad who was revered as a desi #RobinHood by his community, this one is a little too lackluster to be deemed interesting! #KewalKrishna #ShariqueMinhaj #HameedKhan #BhartiSharma #AryanVaid #RajuMavani #AdityaLakhiya #MushtaqKhan

#Lucy(English) Rating: * *1/2  #LucBesson’s Sci-fi thriller top-lining #ScarlettJohansson  is a little too theoretical to be viable as an exciting post-modern thriller. Since the viewer is only 10% clued in to the near 100% visual stimulation, it’s just a whole lot of sci-fi mumbo-jumbo that steers closer to implausible than possible! #MorganFreeman #ThierryArbogast #UniversalPicturesInternational

 

#Hercules(English) Rating: * * ½ #BrettRatner,  familiar to #Indians as the man who couldn’t make #HrithikRoshan’s #Kites fly, directs this  #RadicalComics graphic novel adaptation which plays out as a sacrilegious depiction of a familiar legend. With #Dwayne-too-Hawaiian-looking-to-pass-off-as-Greek-Johnson essaying the eponymous role, the film swings drastically away from authenticity to make it just another battle-hungry enterprise! All action, no soul here! #Viacom18  #AartiJadhav #Paramount #Metro-Goldwyn-MayerPictures #JankiPatel

#22JumpStreet(English) Rating: * *  Asinine bumbling-tricks, The sensibility in this redux-masquerading-as-sequel is too radically American to seem as funny to the rest of the world. Slap-shtick, physical and verbal comedy without the timing or the fluidity to make it enjoyable! #ChanningTatum #JonahHill #Phil Lord #Christopher Miller #SonyPictures #AnjaliMalhotra

#PoshterBoyz(Marathi) Rating: * * * Vicarious thrills emanate from a scenario of three men of varying ages belonging to one small village inadvertently becoming the face of Vasectomy promoted by the Govt. health department- Leading-up to howlarious complications. #ShreyasTalpade’s maiden Marathi production tickles the funny bone consistently, with smart timing, sharp scripting and entertaining performances! #SameerPatil #DilipPrabhavalkar #HrishikeshJoshi #AniketVishwasrao  #PoojaSawant #NehaJoshi 

#Samarthya(Marathi) Rating: * * Nobly intended but the requisite clarity is missing! About female foeticide, the narrative is a little too jumbled-up to be hard-hitting! #SwayambhooProductions

#ChandrashekharSandve #ArunNalawade #AsavariJoshi #NakulGhanekar  #SheetalPathak #UdaySabnis,