Movie Review:MICKEY VIRUS Is An Entertaining Thriller

Overall film should get big thumbs up form young audience in urban centers and good reviews can take film to some distance at box office. Film would had done well with some chopping and minus love track. 

MICKEY VIRUS Is An Entertaining Thriller

Pluses:

Debutant Manish Paul passes the test with flying colors, Elli is decent, Varun Badola is good so is Manish Chaudhary, interesting plot

Minuses:

20 minutes too long, unnecessary romance and songs, sluggish climax

Critic Rating:

2.5/5

Business Rating:

2.5/5

Verdict:

Watch it if novel ideas and fresh cast excite you

Detailed Analysis:

Director Saurabh Verma titled his debut film 'Mickey Virus' which sound similar to sleeper hit of the year 2012 'Vicky Donor'. Film made buzz due to debutant Manish Paul who is all over media promoting his first film through his connections as TV host and RJ.

Film starts as a story of a hacker who is typical Delhi guy and street smart. He falls in love and at the same time police hires Mickey to do some hacking job in national interest. How things get complicated due to this assignment forms the rest of the story. Film has some problems but those does not affect overall good feel and fun.

Film is 20 minutes too long and that is not because of poor editing but due to unnecessary extended romantic track between lead pair. There are songs which are so run of the mill that one can take a quick nap. 1st half takes time to get going but then 2nd half is breezy and entertaining. But again film suffers in the end with contrived climax following the revelation of baddies' identities. Also film borrows heavily from hit Hollywood film 'Swordfish' in terms of skeleton.

Background score is big plus and lifts the mood. Dialogues are quirky but overdone at places in order to sound too delhiwalla. Music is big minus and so is screenplay. Performance wise Mnaish Paul makes an impact and delivers a good performance as a debutant. Elli is good but has not much to do. Puja Gupta is strictly good in a brief role and is Manish Chaudhary. But real surprise package are Varun Badola as cop and Raghav Kakkar as floppy.




But it is director Saurabh Verma who manages to deliver a good entertaining film despite holes in screenplay. He holds the film together and extracts good performances from each member of the cast. Saurabh makes an impressive debut as a director.

Overall film should get big thumbs up form young audience in urban centers and good reviews can take film to some distance at box office. Film would had done well with some chopping and minus love track. 

 
 

Go for this one if you like your cinema quirky and time - pass!



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