It was quite obvious that Mission Isatanbul was going to be an action movie..At least that was what i thought before going
into the cinema..I m sorry if got it wrong,but i seriously think the genre of the movie should have been comedy.Mission
Istanbul is absolutely hilarious to say the least..Pathetic acting,horendous camera angles and number of technical errors
that director Apoorva Lakhia makes leave you in splits in this so called 'action packed' movie.I must say that the movie
lacks any action element what so ever and is a complete no brainer.I mean i can understand that Indian movies have now
gone on to a different level with its use of technology and stuff..but ending world terrorism with a pen drive..huh..
Vikas Sagar(Zayed Khan),a news correspondent with an Indian news channel takes up a job with Turkish news gaint Al Johara
to get an inside view of terrorism.Because of this his fellow journalist,wife(Shriya Saran) divorces him.Now grief
striken Vikas Sagar heads to Istanbul where he is greeted by Owais(Sunil Shetty),a news correspondent for Al Johara..Vikas
meets the boss(Niketan Dheer) and is warned about 13th floor from where Al Johara' security is controlled (in a very horror
movie style..like in those purani haveli' Ramu kaka says "13th floor pe jaana mana hai").Vikas and Owais are sent to
Afghanistan to cover news about the militant gang(a la Al Qaeda) where Owais is killed..Vikas heads back to Istanbul heart
broken.Now enter Rizwan Khan(Vivek Oberoi) who reveals the activities of Al Johara to Vikas.Both set out on a mission to
conquer 13th floor and hack all the information from the Al Johara database..How they go about doing this and 'save the world'
as Rizwan says forms the rest of the story.
After the super duper success of Shootout At Lokhandwala one would have thought that Apoorva Lakhia would deliver something
equally decent,if not better.But the director fails miserably.Every aspect of the movie is sluggish and it really
does test your patience.Acting is not even worth a mention.. I'd say it couldn't have gotten worse. Zayed Khan has again proved that he is the best "over actor" in the industry, if there were Oscars for over acting he would have won the a lifetime achievement award for the same...Exaggerated action would
have probably worked a decade ago but even then this movie unfortunately would'nt have made an impact.The few things that
the movie does offer is an intreval,some very nice sunglasses and not to forget a really bad headache.
Overall Mission istanbul is complete 'Mission Failure' and is not even worth considering for a watch.. I guess,sleeping on
a bed of thorns would be less painful.
Rating:0.5/5
Flaws:
1)When Shriya Saran is reporting in Kashmir, she is facing a camera and reporting while a completely different angle is shown
on TV.But guess what..there is only one camera..so which camera is showing her on TV??
2)Zayed Khan is seen swimming in the sea water at the port..but intrestingly the sea has ceramic tiles at its bed..huh
3)Vivek Oberoi is seen driving a black scorpio in a scene..in the very next scene the black scorpio changes into a blue
scorpio getaway....
4)The pen drive is supposed to release a virus into the computer after download is complete..So why is there no virus
released in the climax scene where the bad guy downloads info into his computer.....
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