Has some X factor

Mr X
Starring: Emraan Hashmi, Amyra Dastur, Arunoday Singh
Rated: 5/10
Mr X, despite the title song that may put you off, is not at all a bad film. In fact, with all its special effects and sound editing around a technologically conscious film, it holds you down as a normal thriller would do.
Yes Emraan Hashmi has those mandatory kissing scenes (which he can’t really get over even when he is invisible!) but these are set aside by the action story which revolves around killing of a Chief Minister and the involvement of an insider in it. Caught in the web of his deceitful colleagues and boss, the upright Anti-Terror Department sleuth Hashmi loses his lady love to a conspiracy which not only fells his career but also fells his existence — he is alive but with a radiation defect that shows him up only in the sun and neon light. Rest of the time — and that’s pretty often in the film  — he is invisible.
He angsts about the fact that his lady love thinks he is dead and that he died killing the chief minister. She hates him, his memories and the fact that he “cheated my emotions.” With going back not an option for Mr X, he returns to the dark and plans a revenge in which the only person standing against him is his beloved.
The story has been crafted well amid all the sci-fi kind of bustle around the film which enhances its viewership quotient. Coming from the House of Bhatts, it has its music in place too. 
Source: Sunday Pioneer, 19 April, 2015

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