Mr.X Movie review - Lacklustre fare

Ameet Bhuvan

Emraan Hashmi hasn't been having a good run lately. Good films of his didn't work and he has resorted to doing the mindless drivel he started with. Mr.X , his supposedly first family entertainer, is another in the list of blah films he has done. 

Raghuram is an Anti Terrorism Department agent who is shot in an anti terror operation and left to fighting for his life. An experimental treatment can save him, but it leaves with a unique predicament, that  his cells now stop reflecting light (yes, roll those eyes round, you are allowed to). So he becomes invisible. After a few sad scenes of self doubt, he realises this is a super power for him to vanquish the ultimate villain Arunoday Singh. There is a love track with Amyra Dastur, which then becomes a story of the hero against the heroine. All of it boils down to a revenge drama that is as stale as last nights dinner. 

For film that is about invisible protagonist, there needs to be enough screen time for the hero to be liked and endeared to the audiences. Like in Mr. India, where we rooted for the innocent Anil Kapoor before he gets invisible. Here instead, Emraan is passive, dead wood sleep walking through his part making you wish he was more invisible than be seen. Then the horror is compounded cause when he is not seen, we focus on the worse acting skills of those around him. 

Packed with corny cringe worthy lines and illogical plot twists and conviniences, Mr. X is drab and dull. Yet, it is in 3D so may be thats a saving grace? No. There is no need to see a bad film in the third dimension? The 3D serves only to highlight the tackiness of the entire enterprise and shows how inept we are still at this technology. May be we should just stop making them for a while and re-look at our technology? 

Mr. X never promised much quality in the trailer. What it did not tell us also was that it would be this unbearable. The film is a dragging bore throughout, give it a miss. 

Rating: 1/5