There was a time when I used to like watching movies for SRK. After sitting through Pathan yesterday, I can safely say those days are long gone. I went in with really high expectations for some mad fun but was totally disappointed. There were so many things that did not work for me in Pathan unfortunately -
- Very fast paced action which keep moving so fast that my eyes ad brain could not keep up and lost interest very quickly. There should be some time/gap in the stunts so that they can be viewed, savoured and eventually enjoy the scenes.
- Poor VFX which was just distracting. Everyone, including my 63 year old dad could tell that the locations were fake.
- The movie also was perhaps not made for IMAX screen. There were so many scenes where some frames were just so pixalated that it again adversely impacted the whole viewing experience.
- A lack of emotional pull in the movie meant I just couldn't care enough for any of the characters. I couldn't care enough when Rubina betrays Pathan or when Nandini(Dimple kapadia) and her team gets blasted in their lab or when Pathan's teammate is blasted in a car in Dubai. None of that emotion ever translated to me or even my mother who can cry at the drop of a hat for a movie.
Overall, I feel that the bar for action movies has been raised so high by movies like Bahubali, RRR, Pushpa, Vikram, etc. that it feels like creators of Pathan have just taken the audience for granted with an absolutely dated and below-average movie. Pathan is a movie we would have thoroughly enjoyed perhaps in 2012. It's not for 2023 and certainly not for audience that has been better cinematic universe movies to watch such as Vikram.
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