Vibe

Vibe is one of those films where the screenplay and sheer entertainment quotient elevate a fairly basic premise. If you're looking for a laugh riot driven by good performances and unabashed silliness, this one will match your vibe.

On the whole, VIBE works due to Kunal Kemmu's strong command over humour, several hilarious one-liners and entertaining performances. Though the film loses steam in the second half and the villain track feels routine, it has enough madcap moments to keep viewers amused.

Kunal Kemmu's Vibe delivers a frenzied buddy comedy with espionage twists, blending drollery and visual humour. The cast's stellar performances keep the plot afloat despite thin substance. A fun ride with occasional overindulgence.

The first half is a laugh riot with terrific dialogues and spot-on pace, but after the interval, the film suddenly changes gears and the laughs begin to dry up, with an unnecessarily convoluted plot involving gangster identities and a super strength serum that takes away from the cool vibe that worked so well initially.

The film draws its appeal from their chaotic friendship even as an overloaded screenplay blunts the stakes.

Vibe is an overlong, uneven 2.5-hour action-comedy that only comes to life in fits and starts. While it delivers great moments, the two genres don't quite coalesce and collide to their full potential, resulting in a film that feels out of place with generic action narrative overshadowing its comedy.

VIBE works best as a light-hearted and one-time watch. It has enough humour, camaraderie and unexpected moments to keep you entertained, even if it isn't without its flaws. The film deserves a watch for its fresh take on the spy genre, with Kunal Kemmu adding his trademark humour to make it entertaining and breezy.

Vibe is a good showcase of why Kunal is possibly one of the best comic actor we have today, and deserves better scripts, including the ones he is writing. Yet the film comes sprawling apart in its second half, struggling to strike the right balance between spoof and sincerity.

Vibe is enjoyable in parts, especially during its first half, and Kunal Kemmu and Sparsh Shrivastava make the journey watchable. But the stretched second half and uneven writing take away from the overall experience.

Despite occasional bursts of spunky comedy, the madness simply doesn't land as expected, and the overall vibe feels off with Vibe. By the climax, Vibe feels like several films fighting for screen space, eventually turning into a ridiculous mix of genres that delivers only patchy comedy.

It is a terrible film with tacky production values and zero ingenuity. 'Vibe' — directed, written, acted, etc, etc, by Kunal Kemmu — is as funny as a molar surgery, and as edifying as a plunge into a mound of manure.

For the first 90 of its 146 minutes, Vibe is comedy gold. Kemmu trusts himself to bring it, and he does. The initiation of Hardik and Bugs into a genre they want no part of finds the sweet spot between spoofy and slapstick.

Kunal Kemmu's Vibe takes a slightly different route with intriguing twists, agents on a mission, and a healthy dose of comedy that gives the film a distinct flavour of its own. Overall, Vibe is a fun, light-hearted watch that certainly leaves you with a positive 'vibe' in theatres.

The overall vibe in Vibe is of indulgence. Since Kunal Kemmu is the one doing the indulging, the film works when it chooses to. The rest of the time, the 145-minute Vibe is a 100-minute movie in search of a befitting mission.