Ra.one
Director - Anubhav Sinha
Producer - Gauri Khan
Music - Vishal-Shekhar
The best part about super hero movies is the villain. The badder the villain the better the movie. The dark knight was one such example and closer home Mogambo the 'khush hua' guy or look at any great super hero movie. Ra.one the villain is nothing as such or anywhere near the class of such villains. He is weak and can only blow fire balls from his hands. Equally boring is the good one (G.one) who is not powerful at all to be called a superhero.
Ra.one so hysterically tries to be a Hollywood flick that you can identify almost every third scene "inspired" from Hollywood flicks, be it G.one perched roof top like batman or the head tilting like the terminator,the iron man like HART or the bullet blocking like superman. They all give you a sense of deja vu.
Ra.one has a plot that made me doubt my credibility as an engineer and left me staring at my degree in software engineering. It so desperately tries to prove that it is possible for the characters in the game to come out to the real world, that you want to bang your head against the wall. Sadly that wall isn't available anywhere close and you have to continue watching Ra.one.
Shekhar (Shahrukh Khan) is a geeky game designer married to Sonia (Kareena Kapoor) and they have a kid Pratiek (Armaan Verma) who is crazy about gaming. Shahana Goswami is also there in a negligible role of a programmer. So apparently these people make a game which Shekhar (Khan) dedicates it to his gaming freak son Pratiek / Lucifer(Armaan) in which he makes the villain more powerful than the hero. The game is developed and Akon sings 'criminal' in his Himesh Reshammiya-like nasal twang. But things go awry and supposedly the Ra.one in the game comes to life into a prototype (spare me the nonsense explaination) which only the kids must have understood how. And this guy Ra.one is angry at Lucifer who beat him in the game, so is in search of him and kills everyone who comes in his way including Shekhar the maker( in real life 'lol' ). Neither does this real-life game character have a pause button on his head nor on his butt. So he goes on and on. Finally when he finds Lucifer/Pratiek (Armaan Verma) he discovers that G.one is also out of the game to protect the kid ( oh! god, what headache). So these people fight stupid fights although with good graphics, these people can do nothing more than blow fire from their circled little palms ( again for the kids only ).
The first half of the movie is considerably entertaining with some comedy but immediately after you return from the interval you willl find that it's yawn yawn time. Some more of yawn yawn time and its climax but these guys are not done fighting yet. Its level three seemingly and they continue to fight ( just like kids) and finally you get what you have waited for , 'the end credits'. And you say to yourself "those are three hours of my life, I am never getting back".
The special effects and the Rajnikanth guest appearance prompt me to give an extra half star to it.
Rating - 2/5
