{"id":27633,"date":"2015-04-17T11:15:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T15:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/?p=27633"},"modified":"2015-04-23T12:24:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T16:24:30","slug":"mr-x-movie-review-by-rajeev-masand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/mr-x-movie-review-by-rajeev-masand\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr X Movie Review by Rajeev Masand"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mrx\" Rating: 1<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Cast:<\/strong> Emraan Hashmi, Amyra Dastur, Arunoday Singh, Tanmay Bhatt<\/p>\n

Director:<\/strong> Vikram Bhatt<\/p>\n

Emraan Hashmi is a young man who can turn invisible at will. Just think of all the cheeky possibilities that premise could throw up. Alas, it\u2019s not the route director Vikram Bhatt goes down in Mr X<\/i>, a singularly humorless film that\u2019s sorely lacking in thrills, a coherent plot, and even basic common sense<\/p>\n

Hashmi\u2019s character, Raghu, an officer in the Mumbai anti-terrorism squad, survives a deadly attack on his life in a chemical factory by his corrupt boss (Arunoday Singh). Severely disfigured, Raghu is \u2018saved\u2019 by a helpful scientist who offers him an anti-radiation drug still in the testing stage that instantly results in complete cell regeneration, but also turns him invisible except in direct sunlight and in blue lighting.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the kind of bunkum that\u2019s impossible to logically explain. Even Bhatt knows that; he gets the scientist to quickly declare it a miracle of god: \u201cThe more science knows, the more it realizes it knows nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Raghu, who now rechristens himself Mr X, decides to use these new \u2018powers\u2019 to seek revenge on his offenders. Meanwhile his fianc\u00e9e (Amyra Dastur), a fellow officer in the ATS, literally \u201csniffs\u201d out the fact that Raghu is Mr X, and convinced that he has gone rogue, becomes obsessed with stopping him in his bloodthirsty mission.<\/p>\n

Borrowing ideas liberally from films like Mr India<\/i>, Ghost<\/i> and Hollow Man<\/i>, Bhatt gives us a bargain-basement sci-fi film with special effects so tacky it makes his own last film Creature<\/i> seem like Jurassic Park<\/i> in comparison. The acting seesaws between bored (Emraan Hashmi) and hammy (Arunoday Singh), while leading lady Amyra Dastur, playing a character so stupid you have to wonder how she was hired in the police force, is screechy and grating for the most part.<\/p>\n

Delivering none of that sense of fun and discovery that you\u2019d expect from a scenario in which someone suddenly found out they were invisible, Mr X<\/i> is lazily scripted and often not true to its own logic. Naturally there are multiple instances of Hashmi locking lips with his leading lady while he\u2019s invisible, including once while they\u2019re underwater in a swimming pool. When even that feels too predictable to evoke a giggle, you know this film doesn\u2019t have a chance.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going with a generous one out of five for Mr X<\/i>. They were optimistic enough to leave the film open for a possible sequel. That one-star rating then is for courage alone.<\/p>\n

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Rating: 1 Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Amyra Dastur, Arunoday Singh, Tanmay Bhatt Director: Vikram Bhatt Emraan Hashmi is a young man who can turn invisible at will. Just think of all the cheeky possibilities that premise could throw up. Alas, it\u2019s not the route director Vikram Bhatt goes down in Mr X, a singularly humorless film that\u2019s sorely lacking in thrills, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5231,5],"tags":[4791,806,6079,74,6202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}