Mission Istaanbul rating and review

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Mission Istaanbul (2008) Movie Rating and Review :

Rating :

Acting – 3/10
Direction – 1/10
Screenplay – 1/10
Music – 2/10
Technique – 5/10

Review :

Mission Impossible (to watch)

So a few months and Rs 24 crore later, a lot of unfortunate souls of the world will now have to suffer his imagination. And what an imagination! Even a schoolgoing kid, who has no idea of terrorism, can imagine better.

But do check out what’s inside Apoo’s imaginary world, though! An Indian TV reporter Vikas (Zayed) interviews dreaded terrorist Khalil (Shabbir), brother of our Osama, Abu Nasir, in Afghanistan. He rushes back to the Indian studios and turns newscaster with his own special report.

Then Vikas is suddenly in Turkey where he is hired by the news channel Al Johara, run by the local business tycoon Ghazni (Nikitin). What’s so special about the towering Al Johara building? No one enters the 13th floor! Why? Because the dreaded Abu Nasir is long dead and the channel, acting as the terrorist mouthpiece, cooks up morphed tapes on that high-security floor!

Where’s Viveik? Well, he appears and disappears like a Houdini trick. He is Rizwan, a Turkish (yes!) commando who has his own agenda against Khalil and his men.

Then reporter-cum-newsreader-cum-action-hero Vikas becomes a hacking expert, cracking codes and downloading secret files like child’s play. Finally, it all boils down to one small pen drive. Just like the hundred other questions in the movie, don’t ask why that pen drive material cannot be copy-pasted on another computer. And also don’t even bother asking what the Abhishek Bachchan music video is doing in there.

Someone’s obviously told Apoorva that a non-stop high-adrenalin technically slick action film doesn’t need rhyme or reason. Just wrap up the movie with a thumping background score and drop in a song here and there like the innumerable bombs on display and you will be just fine. Oh-sa-ma!

Some good acting might have saved a bit of the day. But when the mantle is on a certain Zayed Khan, don’t even look in that direction. The man cannot even open his eyes properly and with that squeaky voice to go with it, it’s “bad news” all the way.

Compared to him Viveik Oberoi looks and sounds Oscar-winning material but then he enters a different movie set midway and starts mouthing words like “dude” and “bro”. Talk about consistency! Shabbir and Nikitin do a far better job, with the latter looking most impressive bare-bodied.

There are also two girls in there somewhere in the middle of all the relentless dishoom dishoom. Shriya Saran is easy on the eye but gives competition to Zayed in the acting department. Debutante Shweta is slightly better but then again she can’t hold the frame for too long.

And oh yes, there are George Bush and bin Laden lookalikes in the film and the way they look says a lot about how bad Mission Istaanbul is. But don’t bother finding out. Watching the excruciating India-vs-Sri Lanka Test would be far better.

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