Rocky Handsome Movie Reviews
Avg. Critics Rating
Verdict: Timepass based on 12 reviews
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Verdict: Timepass based on 1 reviews & ratings
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Subhash K Jha | SKJBollywoodNews
It is unequivocally evident from the start of this dark gripping thriller about damnation and tentative redemption that Kamat is a director who understands John’s physicality as well as his emotional strengths. Kamat uses both the qualities to create a man doddering on the edge of self-destruction.Read full review3.5
Bollywood Hungama News Network | Bollywood Hungama
…is for people who like action films. Despite the film having a simple plot, it has been garnished with engrossing drama and action stunningly. One can find the right mix of tension, action, emotion under one roof. A well-made action thriller!Read full review2.5
Priyanka Prasad | FilmiBeat
…is bound to appeal only to those fond of action films. While this may lack major emotional content, the film’s action scenes are worth a watch, especially the pre-climax scene which will keep you hooked to your seats, a nail-biting action ends the movie on a thrilling note.Read full review2.5
Pinkvilla Team | PinkVilla
John’s hot bod and slick action can’t save the underwhelming actioner…Read full review2.0
Rohit Vats | Hindustan Times
John Abraham … err … Rocky Handsome is a very average film with some finely executed action sequences on display. But, make no mistake: Don’t expect anything more from this film.Read full review2.0
Abhijit Badgujar | KoiMoi
Rocky Handsome is an action packed movie of a person who wants save a little girl from a drug mafia as his ultimate redemption. Unfortunately, it only has great action scenes and nothing else. Weak storyline combined with an ordinary execution.Read full review2.0
Shubha Shetty-Saha | Mid-Day
The movie is so busy falling over itself to look stylish and slick that it forgets to focus on the emotional aspect altogether. There is zero connect between the two central characters, Rocky and Naomi, and the script goes haywire at many places, but the director was evidently concentrating on making the movie look cool by getting the cameras go back and forth with heavy doses of flashbacks and slow-mos drizzled in between.Read full review2.0
Kunal Guha | Mumbai Mirror
Given the film’s single-minded obsession with crime and given the setting, it could’ve well been titled Madgaon Vice. But since the lead here is also the producer, we’ll let this pass.Read full review1.5
Sukanya Verma | Rediff
It takes concrete storytelling not style to camouflage John Abraham’s limitations. He bears the physicality of a man who could take on a dozen but his blank, pained surface cannot offer threat or evoke sympathy.Read full review1.0
Lokesh Dharmani | Masala
The action of the film is impressive but without much emotional context, it fails to leave an impact. Also, the film uses more knives than all the episodes of Masterchefs put together. It looks sharp and slick initially, alas turns into an unnecessary gore fest towards the end.Read full review0.5
Manisha Lakhe | NowRunning
Director Nishikant Kamat piles on horror upon horror to make John Abraham the action star that he has been in his earlier films like Force. But the horrors are so unbelievable – tourists being killed for their organs, kids kidnapped and killed for organs and thievery, drugs, guns, builder mafia – and executed so laughably, so over the the top that there’s unintentional laughter instead of tension.Read full review0.5
Manjusha Radhakrishnan | Gulf News
Watch this if you are an Abraham loyalist, otherwise it’s a good idea to duck this all-brawn-no-brains film.Read full reviewNR
Rachit Gupta | Filmfare
Style and stunts play a big role in action movies. But you can’t discount other aspects of filmmaking just to make an action film that looks sexy. The biggest mistake Rocky Handsome makes is to give it’s lead character an emotional and patriotic back story. It just turns him into another caricature and it never quite justifies his appetite for killing. John Abraham’s training in martial arts is evident in the scenes featuring him in hand-to-hand combat. There the effort is 100 per cent. But rest of the way, this is one rocky film trying a little too hard to be handsome.Read full reviewNR
Shilpa Jamkhandikar | Reuters
Kamat’s ability to turn a good original film into a credible remake was suspect even in his last film “Drishyam”, but “Rocky Handsome” is solid proof that Bollywood can ruin even the most straightforward of remakes. There are stereotypes galore, deafening background music and lots of blood and gore. Some of the action sequences are executed well, but that is about the only saving grace.Read full reviewNR
Namrata Joshi | The Hindu
An adaptation can always be done with one’s own distinct touch. But Rocky Handsome is happy and satisfied in living off borrowed aesthetics even while clinging to its Indian self for all the wrong reasons. It ends up being neither here nor there. The nowhere film alienates, makes for a pronounced disconnect and also makes one long for the return of the good old fashioned, home grown Indian action hero who knew what he stood for. I will take a Ghayal Once Again over this any day.Read full reviewNR
Nandini Ramnath | Scroll.in
The movie’s highlights are three action sequences that have been faithfully replicated from the original. Hamstrung by local censorship laws, Rocky Handsome has had to trim back the ultraviolence that marks South Korean crime dramas¸ but at least the movie comes to life when the death count is ticking. It’s a pity that the survivors are not as interesting as the corpses.Read full review
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My review of Rocky Handsome (2016) by rajesh93
rajesh93, 8 years agoAnother one to bite the dust. Just like John Abraham himself, lots of style but not much substance. & to think he was running his mouth around town like he was going to deliver an INTELLIGENT thriller. LAZY effort & I am mad because i was looking forward to this one.