Tuesday, January 31, 2012

AGNEEPATH, NR ( 3 hr & 16 min )


Quickie Review:  The 12-year old son of a village school master watches in shock and in horror as a drug dealer kills his beloved father.  Made outcasts by their fellow villagers, Vijay and his mother move away to Bombay.  There, Vijay gets in with the wrong crowd for the next 15 years as he bides his time to avenge his father's death.

The audience liked it.

I thought that it was a drawn-out melodrama because the tear-jerker scenes were really milked for the holy cash cow that they were.  If not for this, the movie would have been shorter in length and would have been a more enjoyable movie for me to watch.

Here are the things that I found wrong in this movie:  At the Lord Ganesha Festival, the bad guy had enough time to use his own gun to shoot at the knife-wielding attacker.  Vijay ( Hrithik Roshan ) back-fisted the bad guy, Kancha ( Sanjay Dutt ) in the climactic fight twice, slowly loading-up for each strike--had the bad guy been me, Vijay would not even have landed the first back-fist strike because I would have easily put his arm out of commission!  Vijay was still recovering from a gunshot wound and from being beaten with sticks and from his upper torso being repeatedly smashed against rocks; and on top of all these, he was stabbed in the kidney and in the pancreas SO THAT HE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FIGHT A BIGGER AND STRONGER OPPONENT THE WAY THAT HE DID!

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