This film has the third dimension as mentioned in its moniker but frankly it’s just too flaky and insubstantial for any effect. There’s no thrill, nothing exciting, no tension, little of interest and certainly nothing inventive either. The 3D doesn’t add any novelty to the stale sub-genre staple that gets regurgitated here. What was once an interesting and intriguing concept has now turned turtle completely. It’s just too sad, disheartening and extremely tedious an outing to bear any fruit. Access at your own risk!

While the food and the actors involved looked good and come close to creating a gastronomic orgasm, the angst-ridden dynamics of the drama don’t manage to steer clear of melodramatic flourishes and dissentious familiarity of genre staples in it’s relapse and recovery route. And yeah, Jones is presented as someone gifted and terribly behaved and it’s not a sight that can be forgotten easily..even with all that heavenly gastronomical window dressing on display!

As a standard children’s adventure, this one is interesting enough but the horror part just doesn’t stick.

This attempt at raunchy sex comedy has it’s heart in a daring space but along the way appears to have caught on to a fear psychosis that tempers the escapade and makes it well short of enjoyable. So the writing never goes the distance and the truncations thereof almost take on the look of a ritual dismembering.

While the training and fight sequences are decently picturised there’s not much to be had in the dramatics and the extra stretches due to sentiment. The narrative is not very focused and the performances don’t have the grittiness to lend attachment.

The narrative is densely over-plotted with other-worldly incidents both magical and radical. It’s convoluted and has hallucinatory overtures that take you off course every time. The story itself lacks consistency and the visual architecture here reigns supreme over everything else.

The story never rings true, the antics are jaded and the performances – more than just lackluster- especially from all those heavy-weight stalwarts in the picture. The one person who makes a difference is Leem Lubany, who is refreshingly alive and sparkling with talent in a performance that gives the discordant, juvenile and unbecoming narrative some much needed excitement. It’s quite a harried ride, this one!

Del Toro’s brilliance is unquestionable but his talent doesn’t always come through with a completely credible experience. This one is somewhere close to brilliant but in experience falls well short.

The film has an old-world charm that is cozily ensconced in vividly enumerated, shadily expressive visual dynamics that scores high with it’s carefully calibrated tension and crafty cinematic constructs. Donovan is an intelligent hero who does not need the appendage of super-heroic powers. And Tom Hanks just makes it stick!

Neither the story nor the telling has anything to distinguish it from the many sordid unbecoming love stories that spill out from the Bollywood firmament. Faissal Khan is definitely better off living in the shadows of his big brother. Mainstream movies and stardom don’t appear to be his calling. Here’s another one of his vapid outings that we’ll have to delete from our memory banks!