Ra-One viewed and reviewed here.. there are a couple of reasons I wanted to watch Ra-one. I had not seen any Shah Rukh Khan movies in the past so many years on big screen. The last time I saw him on the screen was in Om shanti Om. The other being Rohini was crazy about Chammak Challo!
So here goes my review for the movie.
Remember you are going to watch a super hero movie. Which movie based on a superhero had any logic invested in them? Let the thrills begin and keep going seem to be the motto there.
Also remember that you are going to watch an Indian super hero movie. The movie is made by an Indian.. is in India and is based on a game hero that is an Indian. So why do you cringe, if the droid-hero has a few pixels of H(e)ART in him?
By all standards of super hero movies made in the USA, this movie falls short.. but by all standards of super hero movies made in India, this movie has its own standing.
Chitti took the cake with Robot. G.One takes the pie with Ra.One.
The story line is about average.. a lot of hamming done by SRK as Shekar . He didnt have to be the nerdy tamil geek scientist. At the same time as G.One when he said he would protect you, you do believe it.. there were some attempts at Steve Martin (read pink pantherish) type humor. All these nag a little in the back of your head.. because now the director/story teller is attempting to put some logic where there can be none. Kareena looks good and is surprisingly tolerable. I didn't cringe like I did every time Aishwarya Rai came on screen in Robot. The kid also does not grate on your nerves, unlike the kid "Rehaan aapse bahut pyar karta hain" from Fanaa.
The sidekicks played a minimal role and did what they had to..The special effects are good. The villain Arjun Rampal has exposed another facet of his talents .. This guy can be menacing.The climax was again technology vs human brain ..
The concept of a game hero stepping out of the gaming world into our world to finish off a game is brilliant. Today when you think its cool to have a relationship with your Phone a.k.a Siri, why is it difficult to conceive a world where technology and humans actually can meet.
A.I has proven to be very powerful today with machines being automatically controlled, Surgeries performed by Robots and planes flying on auto pilot. Today we have no problem trusting our lives to these machines.
In one of the reviews on Ra.One I read somewhere that the characters are not 3-D but only 2-D .. If you are watching a movie based on game heroes.. I am surprised you look for 3-D traits in game heroes.
This is not a movie for the person who wants to laugh with P.G wodehouse. This movie is for when you want to step out of your real world into another world and believe its possible.
Go watch it once.. have fun and come back. Don't watch it expecting Shakespeare to fly into space and rewrite star wars and star trek.
So here goes my review for the movie.
Remember you are going to watch a super hero movie. Which movie based on a superhero had any logic invested in them? Let the thrills begin and keep going seem to be the motto there.
Also remember that you are going to watch an Indian super hero movie. The movie is made by an Indian.. is in India and is based on a game hero that is an Indian. So why do you cringe, if the droid-hero has a few pixels of H(e)ART in him?
By all standards of super hero movies made in the USA, this movie falls short.. but by all standards of super hero movies made in India, this movie has its own standing.
Chitti took the cake with Robot. G.One takes the pie with Ra.One.
The story line is about average.. a lot of hamming done by SRK as Shekar . He didnt have to be the nerdy tamil geek scientist. At the same time as G.One when he said he would protect you, you do believe it.. there were some attempts at Steve Martin (read pink pantherish) type humor. All these nag a little in the back of your head.. because now the director/story teller is attempting to put some logic where there can be none. Kareena looks good and is surprisingly tolerable. I didn't cringe like I did every time Aishwarya Rai came on screen in Robot. The kid also does not grate on your nerves, unlike the kid "Rehaan aapse bahut pyar karta hain" from Fanaa.
The sidekicks played a minimal role and did what they had to..The special effects are good. The villain Arjun Rampal has exposed another facet of his talents .. This guy can be menacing.The climax was again technology vs human brain ..
The concept of a game hero stepping out of the gaming world into our world to finish off a game is brilliant. Today when you think its cool to have a relationship with your Phone a.k.a Siri, why is it difficult to conceive a world where technology and humans actually can meet.
A.I has proven to be very powerful today with machines being automatically controlled, Surgeries performed by Robots and planes flying on auto pilot. Today we have no problem trusting our lives to these machines.
In one of the reviews on Ra.One I read somewhere that the characters are not 3-D but only 2-D .. If you are watching a movie based on game heroes.. I am surprised you look for 3-D traits in game heroes.
This is not a movie for the person who wants to laugh with P.G wodehouse. This movie is for when you want to step out of your real world into another world and believe its possible.
Go watch it once.. have fun and come back. Don't watch it expecting Shakespeare to fly into space and rewrite star wars and star trek.
