Lacks the kick

Kick
Starring: Salman Khan, Jacqueline Fernandez, Randeep Hooda, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Rated: 4.5/10
Jai Ho! Sallu bhai is all for Being Human, and now in the most aggressive way — through his movies. This is the second one of the NGO types after Jai Ho which came and went without the usual ripples Sallu bhai creates among the audiences. In this one too, he propels the goodness of ‘being human’ in all ways — through being a good a man, through being a bad man and through being a devil who is all about hidden goodness, well, of being human!
I like Salluji with all his frills, including the towel between his legs and the swagger between his lips. This one has them too but the mission that is being propelled gets to you faster than the star and his traditional antics. It’s almost like Sallu bhai going veteran on his own filmi career and dishing out a signing out series of films before the final salaam namaste to the industry!
Kick is something that Sallu keeps looking for most of his life and gets it only after two bodies fall off a building in front of his eyes.
For the audience too, the wait for that all important kick that a Sallu film is expected to give, stretches for most of the film. And, that’s not how it happens on a Sallu show, that too as a lead-in to Eid! Yes, we all do respect him for the amount of philanthropic work that he does for the good of society but it would be great if he could keep his personal mission out of his professional pursuits. For, the Salman Khan brand works only if it is irreverent, crazy and happening on screen.
Yes, as a devil who wears a watered down Krrish mask, he does all the action. And, don’t miss the cycle and him before a speeding train act — now that is the only Sallu moment that will make you applaud the film.
Jaqueline Fernandes is a good adornment though one would have preferred her in a Murder 2 kind of sexy role instead of the bespectacled psychologist that she plays here. Randeep Hooda is the good spice of the film even though he is a side-track to Salluji. Nawazuddin Siddiqui as the petite but crazy villain does his bit of ferocity with his asthmatic breath-and-bottle-opener do.
On the whole, a little bit of an un-Sallu film which he tries to save. 
Source: Sunday Pioneer, 27 July, 2014

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