The Xpose (U/A)
16/May/2014

The Xpose

Critics Review

1.50

The Xpose is Himesh Reshammiya show

The Xpose celebrates the cinema of the decade with references to Teesri Manzil, Johnny Tera Naam and Satyam Shivam Sundaram. But The Xpose is not what it purports to be. It is a HR show. The actor, who also gets a screenplay credit, delivers sarcastic dialogues, written by Bunty Rathore, with a straight face. (more)

Source: Suhani Singh, India Today

1.00

The Xpose has nothing new, and it doesn't even care

The Xpose wastes no time in getting to the point, which is to swiftly move towards finding the killer. Only, the path to solving the mystery of Zara�s murder is rife with inconsistencies of epic proportions. There is nothing new, story wise, to speak of and it is eventually reduced to a desperately stylised murder mystery with its single dimensionally dysfunctional and ditzy characters, jazzy music, dark glasses and trench coats, random slo-mo action sequences and what have you.(more)

Source: Nishi Tiwari., Rediff.com

2.00

To an extent, �The Xpose� does succeed

If they had maintained the tone, �The Xpose� would have been a hoot. But songs get stuffed in, a love angle slows things, and it gets stuck in cop stations and courts. They should have just kept the cheese thick. Here�s a sampler, from early in the film. A producer tells an aspirant : �na dance na expression na pose, sirf xpose!�. Classic. Nothing more would have been needed.(more)

Source: Shubhra Gupta, Indian Express