By Hindustan Times
The crime-thriller directed by Kabeer Kaushik, starring Sonu Sood, Naseerudin Shah and Neha Dhupia, fails to create the 'maximum' impact. The film revolving around cops and encounters is another run of the mill story with poor direction and a skeletal plot.
Here's what the experts must say:
Saibal Chattarjee, NDTV
Rating: **1/2
Trigger-happy Mumbai cops gunning for gory glory has been the topic of many a Bollywood action flick of the past decade and a bit of. This one promises the utmost. Does it deliver? Not quite. Maximum bites off excess of it may possibly comfortably chew. Maximum lacks the nuanced detailing and the urgent pacing that are meant to have automatically sprung from a theme yanked out of the inner files of a highly politicised police force.
But all said and done, Maximum isn’t a washout – not by a protracted chalk. It's well crafted and superbly acted. Sonu Sood specifically leaves a long-lasting impression because the police officer under fire for excesses committed within the line of duty. The cameos by Vinay Pathak and Rajendra Gupta are impressive. Sadly, the hassle is maximum, the impact not quite so.
Gaurav Malani, TOI
Rating: Average
Naseeruddin Shah who plays an encounter specialist within the film substantiates his seniority by citing the precise selection of his encounters as 56. Unfortunately Kabeer Kaushik's encounter-specialist story Maximum doesn't even get a hold of an original figure at the encounter count and rather derives it from the cult film within the genre - Ab Tak Chhappan (56). More unfortunately, Bollywood has encountered the quintessential encounter specialist such a lot of times by now that there's not anything special left concerning the character or his chronicle anymore.
Kabeer Kaushik might need taken references from real-life cops and incidents but he is not capable of productively prepare the facts to return up with a riveting fictional account. Both his writing and direction lack innovation making all of the effort a traditional fare.
Taran Adarsh, Bollywood Hungama
Rating: **
The difference between MAXIMUM and an assortment of flicks that experience taken with cops earlier is this one talks of the facility games that two encounter specialists delight in. A SINGULAR thought, without an iota of doubt, but MAXIMUM suffers for a sound reason: A skeletal plot that lacks meat in its screenplay. Kabeer may've borrowed from real-life, but he is not capable of bind the incidents and episodes convincingly in an effort to deliver a charming fictional fare.
there's not much that the film offers at the table, after you're told in regards to the two warring factions. There are sequences that appear repetitive or an extension of what one has watched earlier, besides moments that appear so hard to take in in a practical fare. The climax, for instance, though filmed brilliantly, looks unreal because the two cops battle it out on a secluded railway platform. Besides, the film unravels at a languid speed, that is quite a deterrent for a thriller. At the whole, MAXIMUM has an eye catching premise, but lacks the beef in its screenplay to depart much of an impact.
Kunal Guha, Yahoo
Rating: Minus five
Contrary to popular belief, this film isn’t a couple of nighty-clad mother (maxi-mum). It's about Aamchi Mumbai- the utmost city. But director Kabeer Kaushik’s film takes minimum interest in Suketu Mehta’s interpretation of town and if anything, only curdles it right into a milkshake of clichés. So Mumbai isn’t concerning the ‘Mum-bhais’ anymore. It’s about trigger-happy encounter cops, dance bars which can’t be distinguished from item song shoots and many people lying mum in a pool in their own blood; just about just like the theatre screening this film.
If Sonu Sood is the last action hero, your last brain cell that survives this film must be within the next season of ‘Bigg Boss’ for its ability to endure absolutely anything. Why probably the most finest actors of the Hindi film industry agreed to share space with this motley crew to position up a show worth forgetting, is something only Naseeruddin Shah knows.
Raja Sen, Rediff
Rating: *
Lamentably enough, Kabeer Kaushik's cop thriller is neither of these potentially fun things, and never even really a thriller. It is a pity, for Kaushik's Sehar remains probably the most solid cop movies in recent years.
This one, however, tries too hard to seem 'intelligent,' that is why voices are softened and conversations are made matter-of-fact. The theory of corrupt cops facing off against one another generally is a fine one, but mired here in the course of people saying things really really slowly, it loses its steam.
Zinia Ray, DNA
Rating: *1/2
With a movie like Maximum, you go in along with your hopes pegged on one person, and one person only, Naseeruddin Shah. You compromise all the way down to watch the film with fingers, legs and arms crossed hoping to have a good time. However, Maximum proves to be a movie so unsalvagable that even an actor like Shah fails to assist its case.
The script fails on many levels and the film seems longer than its 150-minute duration. The events, after a point, make no sense and become hard to follow since you are only too damn bored to care anymore. And, of course, there may be an item number Aa Ante Amalapuram you might want to look out for, like the way you would look out for a speeding truck or a cloaked figure with a hook for a hand. Don't waste some time and money in this one.
Nabanita, Oneindia
Rating: **
The film is about within the Bombay (and never Mumbai) of the past and the tale portrays encapsulates politics, land deals, and pretend encounters. But, to one's expectation, the film fails to deliver the utmost because the title promises.
Talking concerning the performances, Sonu Sood is an encounter cop of few words and lots of bullets. He's the blue-eyed boy of the Establishment. A PERSON with the entire greys and all of the power. Sonu has an excellent waku doki screen presence, but fails to prove himself as a result of weak plot. Naseeruddin in his element is an experience that needs no definition. Naseer is solely dynamic waku doki. No wonder Shah just steals the show together with his power pack performance. At the whole, the film certainly doesn't make any sense and fails to deliver the MAXIMUM.
