Action Jackson Movie Reviews
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Raja Sen | Rediff
Action Jackson is a drinking game of a film, one well over the so-bad-it’s-good line, its main merit being that in a sea of superstar-massaging vehicles, it holds some genuine surprises — and makes sure its hero looks like a jackass.Read full review3.0
Rahul Desai | Mumbai Mirror
There’s suspension of disbelief, and there’s Action Jackson—where suspension climbs to the top of Everest, moonwalks and floats into the stratosphere strapped with eardrum-shattering jetpacks. Not usually my cuppa, but perhaps this one time, it is. With a shot of rum.Read full review2.5
Sonia Chopra | Sify
The film is worth a watch strictly for the cast and the songs. That’s if you’re willing to endure the unbelievably long and violent film for that. Clearly, Prabhu Dheva (Wanted, R…Rajkumar, Rowdy Rathore) is in no mood to let go of the stale Bollywood formula. And as the audience, you can either play along or move on!Read full review2.5
Meena Iyer | Times of India
A Don’s sister falls for his most trusted lieutenant. When he refuses to reciprocate, she vows to destroy him. Her lust and his scorn form the crux of this puerile potboiler.Read full review2.0
Samiya Dinware | BookMyShow
A must-watch for die-hard Ajay Devgn fans, Action Jackson has intense fight scenes and foot-tapping songs, but lacks logic! The film features a wonderful cast and a few one-liners that make up for the missing elements. Nevertheless, Action Jackson is full of mindless comedy and if you’re looking for a fun film this weekend, you can probably give this action drama a try!Read full review1.5
Sweta Kaushal | Hindustan Times
To put it briefly, watch Action Jackson if you are a Prabhudheva or Ajay Devgn fan, because otherwise there isn’t a single dialogue you haven’t heard and this is one of the films where they say ‘Do not take your brains to the theatres’.Read full review1.5
Surabhi Redkar | Koimoi
Action Jackson matches up to neither Prabhudheva’s film making nor an Ajay Devgn film. It is an extreme downer for those expecting a full on action-packed ‘masala’ film. With a done to death plot and an absolutely nothing new to offer, the only thing that this film latches onto is Ajay Devgn who maintains his swagger well enough.Read full review1.5
Noyon Jyoti Parasara | NowRunning
Action Jackson defies logic in every sequence. Screenplay defines absurd, characters unintentionally funny. Save your money.Read full review1.5
Gayatri Sankar | Zee News
Movie-goers expect to get entertained while watching a movie. Alas, ‘Action Jackson’ doesn’t even have an iota of entertainment quotient. Watch the movie only if you are an Ajay Devgn Fan!Read full review1.5
Lokesh Dharmani | Masala
If your idea of good action is shoving a sharp knife into someone’s mouth, down his throat cutting his intestines. If your idea of good humour is a Sonakshi Sinha desperate to see a naked Ajay Devgn. And your idea of good music is songs like Keeda, Chichora Piya and Surya ast Punjabi mast, then, one, I am FURIOUSLY judging you. Two, I AM STILL JUDGING YOU!!Read full review1.5
Martin D'Souza | Glamsham
To hell with commitment or appointment; this one is pure punishment.Read full review1.0
Tushar Joshi | DNA India
Endure this only if you are a true blue Ajay Devgn fan, otherwise revisit Rowdy Rathore, Prabu Deva’s better version of Action Jackson.Read full review1.0
Rohit Khilnani | India Today
Action Jackson is just action scenes and random songs put together to fill 145 minutes of screen time. This film is beyond repair.Read full review1.0
Mayank Shekhar | The W14
You know the film is called Action Jackson, and it will essentially be a series of stylized stunt and sexy song sequences. And it totally is. Yet, no one, really, no one, can adequately warn you against what to expect here.Read full review1.0
Manjusha Radhakrishnan | Gulf News
There’s no redeeming feature in Action Jackson, a film that’s purely self-indulgent. Skip it.Read full review1.0
Rajeev Masand | IBNLive
It’s as much fun as getting your privates stuck in your zipper.Read full review1.0
Sachin Chatte | The Navhind Times
People slap each other for no particular reason and women are punched in the face and if there was a race for pregnant women to run in high heels, Yami Gautam would win it hands down. Prabhudheva ji also tries to be a Tarantino and Roberto Rodriguez in the action scenes and needless to say, he fails.Read full review1.0
Rummana Ahmed | Yahoo
After three hours (2 hours 25 minutes to be precise), which felt like eternity, the discombobulating was officially over. I hugged myself and advise that you do the same. What a waste!Read full review1.0
Meeta Kabra | Wogma
I’ve had enough films that are banking on one star’s stardom to pull an entire 2-2.5 hour film through – be it Akshay Kumar, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Aamir Khan or my personal favorite Ajay Devgn. Sure most of them have either action, romance or a social message as the other anchor in the film. But, I know I’ve had enough. Aren’t the actors done with these films that seem like it is more about them, the STAR?Read full review0.5
Saibal Chatterjee | NDTV
Action Jackson, a surefire Golden Kela contender, could give Humshakals a run for its money. Give it a miss.Read full review0.5
Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express
The last Prabhu Dheva outing, ‘R Rajkumar’, was so unbearable that I thought I would be scarred for life. ‘Action Jackson’ is almost as vile: the only reason I stuck around was to see if Ajay Devgn would start making like Prabhu Dheva by the end. No, he doesn’t.Read full review0.5
Prateek Sur | Bollywood Life
Only a die-hard Ajay fan could walk out of the film without regretting the waste of time and money spent on the film.Read full review0.5
Anupama Chopra | Hindustan Times
I’ve seen plenty of bad films this year but Action Jackson raises the bar on awful. I’m sure I’ve lost a few brain cells with this one. I request you to stay at home — I have suffered it so you don’t have to.Read full reviewNR
Kusumita Das | Deccan Chronicle
There are bad films, there are so-bad-they-are-good films. And then there is ‘Action Jackson’. Bollywood has trained us well enough to know that we are not to use our grey cells one bit while watching films like ‘Action Jackson’.Read full reviewNR
Mohar Basu | Koimoi
Golden Kela and its likes are away but the worst film of the year is hands down this. At the ‘Break Of Dawn’ Michael Jackson must emerge from his grave, pull Prabhu by the collar for using his name, punch him and exclaim, “You ain’t criminally good but hell you’ve been hit by Smooth Criminal.” Beat it!Read full reviewNR
Suhani Singh | India Today
Action Jackson is a vicious assault to the senses…Move over Humshakals and O Teri. The award for the worst film of the year goes to Action Jackson.Read full reviewNR
Rachit Gupta | Filmfare
Despite all its technical merits, the one most prominent feature of Action Jackson is its incoherence. Most of the film just doesn’t make any sense. There are patches of brilliance. But none of that can save this goulash conceived from inconsistency and indecision. Prabhudheva is capable of much better.Read full reviewNR
Sneha May Francis | Emirates247
Nothing quite prepares you for Prabhudeva’s ‘Action Jackson’. Not even the peculiar title that attempts to glorify Bollywood’s love for heroes who can fight like Superman, and dance like Michael Jackson. Nor Ajay Devgn’s ‘Kill Bill’ moves, or his fondness to repeat a single dialogue, without any warning or provocation.What can I say, it’s just one of those movies that need to be left unwatched.Read full reviewNR
Deepanjana Pal | Firstpost
Do yourself and those around you a favour: watch Action Jackson only if you have a free ticket or want to punish yourself. Perhaps if this film doesn’t make an obscene amount of money, Prabhudheva will be forced to respect his audience a little.Read full reviewNR
Daily Bhaskar | Daily Bhaskar
This movie will test your patience …If you want to have fun time with your friends, where you bashing a film is all you wan to do. Watch it. Otherwise skip ‘The Criminal Baby’.Read full reviewNR
Rishabh Chakravorty | India
You will be left traumatized and hurt when you realize that doing anything else in the world for those two hours would have been a much more productive use of your time because you would have achieved something or gained experience, you get nothing but a burning sensation to demand your money be returned. But then you need to think, there is nothing that will come to your mind that can compensate for the time and grey cells you lost while watching the film. Don’t watch it; it’s not even worth a watch when it comes on TV in a few weeks.Read full reviewNR
Nandhini Srinivasan | FilmiBeat
Action Jackson kills the audience too just like he kills all those people in the film with his sword. So please give this movie a miss in big screen unless you are newly wedded couple (wink wink) or an insomniac.Read full reviewNR
Deccan Chronicle Reviewer | Deccan Herald
‘Action Jackson’ is a loud, inane offering that mixes over-the-top action with crass comedy in a way that is unlikely to pass muster even with the movie-going constituency that it is primarily targeted at.Read full reviewNR
Komal Nahta | Komal Nahta's Blog
Action Jackson is for the masses more than the classes. It will prove to be an average fare at the box-office in only some circuits as it will score in single-screen cinemas and with the masses more than in the multiplexes and with the gentry audience. But in the rest of the circuits, reaching the average mark will be an uphill task. Considering that it has entailed an investment of around Rs. 100 crore (to make, promote and release), recovery of the same seems an improbability in spite of fabulous recovery from the sale of satellite rights.Read full reviewNR
Shilpa Jamkhandikar | Reuters
With “Action Jackson”, Bollywood’s masala entertainer just got uglier and louder, and, if past audience reactions are anything to go by, is well on its way to box office glory.Read full reviewNR
Udita Jhunjhunwala | LiveMint
This chop suey of Chinese action films, Tarantino aesthetic, south Indian histrionics, 1980s’ chauvinism, overused background score, Devgn machismo garnished with Prabhudheva’s overstylized direction, is enough to give one a splitting headache.Read full reviewNR
Anuj Kumar | The Hindu
When it seems somebody is drawing sadistic pleasure when a woman is punched in the face, one doubts the sensibility of the filmmaker.Even those who whistled for his Rowdy Rathore would find this hard to swallow.Read full review
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My review of Action Jackson (2014) by bangreaayushi
jyothimathur, 9 years agoNothing’s satisfactory!The movie is not about extracting a hidden talent out from Ajay Devgan. The film is directed by Prabhu Deva. The movie has Ajay Devgan, Sonkashi Sinha and Yami Gautam in the lead roles. As a director, Parbhu Deva gave us many good movies such as R…Rajkumar, Rowdy Rathod and many more. Actually those movies were the remake of south movies. But this movie is not an inheritance to the south movies. It’s an original work worked upon by the director himself. Ajay played the double role in the movie. He played the character of Vishy , a Mumbaikar in the film. The plot of the movie is very straightforward. Vishy lives a very contented life with Khushi (Sonakshi Sinha) who is queen of bad lucks. She loves Vishy and becomes his lucky charm. Soon after this, the film takes a u-turn and he goes to play the double lead in the film. What makes him to play a double lead? This is the crux of the story. Actually the story doesn’t hold you till the end. It has no charm to make you feel that something is going on the films. The film has no logic and has got no gravity. As an audience, it is just waste of money to watch the film. Talking about the performances, it made me realize that Ajay was not in his mood to play the double role in the film because you as an audience expect more from Ajay Devgan after the success of Singham 2. This movie is definitely not the best of his performances. Sonakshi is bright with her character. Yami and Kunal Kapoor too gave their best. The film has no quality contents that will make you to extract something from the movie. After the movie gets over, you are in the no mood to watch Ajay Devgan’s next movie. The film has Manasvi Mamgai, who is introduced in the film. Yes, she is impressive with her work. The film’s stunts done by Ajay Devgan are worth eye pleasing and you surely cannot miss them. The film is all about mindless comedy acts and there are no signs that you get through the film’s story. The film has got no quality content. The screenplay is good with the support of good cinematography. The movie will be impressive only for Sonakshi’s fans. But not to those who are die-hard Ajay Devgan’s fans. The film’s dialogues are worth capturing. The film has things flying in the air. You really can’t expect anything more than just things flying off the things fully in the air. Action Jackson is only about actions with nothing clean. Prabhu Deva’s direction was missing from the film. The songs are good but they don’t hold your seats throughout the movie. The movie’s end is also very normal with nothing new. The Bangkok locations are good but you cannot completely go with only the locations for the film. -
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My review of Action Jackson (2014) by Amol Patil
Patil, 9 years agoWorth to watch Ajay Devgan Always, but it was Horrible movie.....