masrur

Sorry, couldn't agree with the critics giving glaring reviews. I am not sure what they found in the sloppy script and even sloppier direction.

I am giving it 5/10 only for the occasional comedies that made me laugh and the beautiful locations in Sydney. Some of the stunts were truly impressive, but I guess that was a core requirement for a movie about a stuntman.

The chemistry between Gosling and Blunt was lifeless. There was no spark even in the most romantic scenes. Emily Blunt is one of the overrated actors getting a lot of attention in Hollywood nowadays, in my opinion.

The pace was rather uneven, and it did not feel like it was planned - but rather lack of. At times, it felt such a drag that I could not connect to what these characters were doing on the screen.

Not worth spending your hard earned money at the theatres.

I would like to start by saying it seems implausible that so many thousands of people have jumped in within hours of the release and yet the theatres are empty! People who are badmouthing so vehemently here, I suspect many of them haven't even watched it yet.

LSC is a masterful adaptation of Forrest Gump in Indian context. The first half is brilliant apart from a few obnoxious gestures of Aamir Khan trying to be over the top to play the character.

The second half had a few heart touching moments, but the pace became too slow and more camera time should have been given to the other characters.

One major flaw was the fellow passengers' failure to recognise the name Laal Singh Chadda since he was already well publicised in the media for his cross country run.

The extension of the Pakistani character's role and his redemption was not necessarily. There really should have been at least one lingering animosity and deadly conflict with LSC in that half to bring a new twist in the adaptation.

I wish the brilliant minds behind this film could have done a better job with the second half.

All in all, the movie is highly watchable.

I understand Extraction is a fiction and the genre is violent action with superhuman like protagonists. A handful lead actors can easily wreak havoc on an army trained professionals and literally send them to oblivion. But we are not talking about Avengers or Thor here.

It becomes a problem when a production like this creates an allusion that the story setting and production design of the movie is 'the' true presentation of a real country, and it's capital, people and armed forces. Especially, if that country is the main setting of major Hollywood production for the first time ever.

The production team might have taken some 'plateshots' of some filthy, dingy, overcrowded outskirts of the capital city of the story, which is fine, but that seemed to be the only thing to say about the city. The real nicer locations (not some artificial set) and millions of well educated middle class residents of the same city are totally missing. This is wrong, in my opinion.

The law enforcement agencies as a whole have been portrayed as utterly corrupt and incompetent. Almost every single members of the force seemed to be chasing Chris Hemsworth and his band of hired guns like spellbound insects heading to light traps to meet their brutal ends. Explosions, gun fires, car crashes all happening nonstop in overcrowded and narrow suburban streets with complete disregard to many many innocent lives to save only the life of a kidnapped son of a drug lord. And this is somehow a redemption for the protagonist that audience should empathise with or even deem heroic!

It is very unfortunate to see how a respectable movie personality like Chris Hemsworth may have tarnished the image of a country (he most likely has never visited) and its people in the name of fiction and entertainment.