Film Impressions

REVIEW: Prince

PRINCE OF TWITS: Twitter review

What does a reviewer do when a movie defies all logic and goes from one implausible situation to an even more bizarre situation? Fellow journalist Aniruddha Guha and I decided to concentrate on the funnest part of the movie: the dialog. You'll read the story and hear PR spiel about the action scenes in the newspapers but they will not make you want to buy the screenplay or the DVD. So when the alcohol content in your blood is way beyond legal, then watch the DVD, you will enjoy Prince in its true glory.

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Tweet #1

Woman 1: I have the chip, tumhare paas kya hai...

Woman 2: Mere paas (intense pause) PRINCE hai!

REVIEW: Prince

LOST ACTION HERO

Kookie V Gulati's Prince is just as implausible as Sanjay Gadhvi's Dhoom 2. The primary difference between the two films is that Hrithik Roshan has the charisma to make the most outrageous and senseless sequences entertaining, while Vivek Oberoi doesn't have the personality to look like a action hero even when you can tell he's trying really hard. Prince isn't a film to be dissected for the quality of its content, but to be enjoyed for its sheer cheesiness. Everything from the opening diamond heist to the Hollywood-style death-defying stunts, dizzying aerial photography and high-speed chases, the villain with a mechanical arm and the three heroines (one doesn't know who they are -- except Nandana Sen in ill-fitting clothes and a tattoo on her chest -- but they're uniformly stiff) is part of the mindless thriller formula.

REVIEW: Prince

NOT SHOWTIME YET

Every once in a while comes a film that tries to fly before it can walk,  and ends up tripping on its shoelaces.  There was Drona and there was Veer there’s Prince, so awful that it is enjoyable.  You have to see it with a crowd of irreverent college kids, or better still an upper stall audience—they rattle off lines before they are spoken on screen, come up with cheeky responses to the film’s soggy punch lines, hoot with derisive laughter and get their money’s worth this way or that.