‘Murder 2’ checks all the boxes of an Emraan Hashmi-Mohit Suri-Vishesh Films production.

Murder 2 is flat, boring and not worth talking about. Even Emraan, sporting less stubble than usual, seems babyfaced as he goes through the motions. It might be inspired by some obscure film, but I don’t even care enough to look for its name. By now, I’ve come to accept that the Bhatts have a bigger DVD collection than me. I do wish they’d stop flaunting it, though.

Besides, Murder (based on Adrian Lyne’s Unfaithful) was an aesthetically lit, coherently structured, semi-erotic flick about a bored, married Bangkok mom, in an adulterous affair with her ex (Emraan Hashmi). Sure enough, there was a murder in it.

Even if Murder 2 fails to tide over the bad reviews and gets bogged down at the box office, it seems pretty certain that this is the film that could well be the turning point of Prashant Narayanan’s career.

A good plot (lifted from another film) and a lovely performance by Prashant Narayanan could have made Murder 2 watchable, but shoddy writing ruins it. A shorter, slicker thriller would have been more enjoyable than the masala mash that is Murder 2.

Serial kisser meets serial killer as Murder 2 tries to con you into a korean copy..