Rush Movie Reviews

Here are the movie reviews for Rush:

Ratings:2/5 Reviewer: Taran Adarsh Site:Bollywood Hungama

RUSH could've transformed into an invigorating tale, eye-catching, soul-piercing take on ambition, aspiration and salvation, but it meanders into the predictable zone after a great start, giving you the feeling of dj vu on several occasions. The writing is markedly foreseeable, with the screenwriter opting for the predictable stuff. However, a few individualistic sequences do stand out, but they are few and far between. There were seeds of a riveting thriller, but the plot hangs loose at various critical and decisive junctures. There's a glimmer of hope prior to the climax, with those moments getting a grip of things, but the culmination is tame, quite a letdown. On the whole, RUSH looks like a rushed job. It could've been an interesting take on ambition and aspiration, but it comes across as a half-baked product.

Ratings:1/5 Reviewer: Rohit Khilnani Site:Rediff

Quite a few filmmakers seem to be fascinated by the television media business. But whether it was the Amitabh Bachchan starrer Rann or Emraan Hashmi's latest film Rush, none of them even get their basic facts right.Emraan Hashmi plays his part with honesty but it doesn't look like his contribution will save this film. After a series of hits and critically acclaimed roles this one will do no good to Hashmis' rising career. The shooting style in a lot of scenes and even the songs with spot lights on actors gives the feel of the 1980s cinema.We cannot recommend Rush.

Ratings:3/5 Reviewer: IANS

Far-fetched, yes. But Rush has its adrenaline rushing moments in the second half when the narrative picks up momentum and moves steadily towards a climax that is not entirely edge-of-the-seat. Emraan as the backbone of plot performs decently. He has more speaking lines and less kissing to do here than in all his recent films. Whether the verbosity actually translates into something substantial or not is debatable.Rush has the bone though not enough meat to make for a juicy fare on the excesses of television journalism. It leaves you wondering what director Shamin Desai would have done with his film making career had he lived.

Ratings:1.5/5 Reviewer: Mayank Shekhar Site:Dainik Bhaskar

This one seems to be set in an alternate universe, where laws and police don't exist, and television ratings rule the world. The film could seriously work as a bleak view into a disturbingly scary, fictionalised future. Except, it's set in the present, and in the present, as we know, there are about 800 TV channels in India, of which a majority are news stations, none of which make big bucks, if they make any profits at all.When the film eventually reveals the dangerous practices employed by his TV station, you may wish to laugh. But you don't. Because this is an Emraan Hashmi flick my brothers. No one walked into the theatre looking for a story. They want sex and Sufi songs. There is no sex. There are lots of Sufi songs. Damn, what's the point then

Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Sagarika Ghatge, Neha Dhupia and Aditya Pancholi

Director: Shamin Desai


Once in a while there comes a movie that tends to have a drastic effect on you. Rush is one such film. It will give you a splitting headache which has a long-lasting effect. From the word go, Rush is senseless, over the top and as boring as can be.

The movie takes us into the big bad world of the media where cut-throat competition is the order of the day. If news isn't discovered, it's concocted in boardrooms. Emraan Hashmi plays Sam Grover, an ambitious crime reporter, who vouches to serve truth on a platter to his audience. Call it the inevitable or plain clich' but Sam finds himself in the centre of the media mess. All hell breaks loose soon after he starts work for a media baron Roger Khanna (Aditya Pancholi).

Rush takes itself too seriously. The movie positions itself to be a serious drama with media corruption as the core subject. But it miserably fails on all counts.

Thanks to zero research the film has a wafer-thin plot and a galloping sub-standard screenplay which makes this movie seem like a big mess. Abrupt intrusion of dance numbers between scenes and age-old editing gimmicks like the split screens, fail to add any value to the viewing. Innumerable scenes injected with bad acting at times turn into a ham fest and at other times make for unintentionally funny moments.

Rush is Emraan Hashmi's weakest film. If Dibakar Banerjee's Shanghai was his shining trophy as an actor then Rush is the other extreme. Add to that, Emraan's loyal fans will be mighty disappointed as their kissable star doesn't have a single decent lip-lock in this film. As for the songs, which his films are otherwise famous for, are lacklustre to say the least.

Neha Dhupia plays the sophisticated and sexy, hell on high heels quotient. She looks the way she's supposed to but she has nothing to offer in the film, except trying to bed Emraan (which doesn't work too). Aditya Pancholi is the character that provides us with a few laughs, unintentional of course.

Rush has all the elements to not let you sleep. It has an unnecessary thumping background score and over-the-top dialogue. So if you decide to go for this film, do yourself a favour and carry along a crocin strip.That might just help.

Rush is about the clutter in the news channel business and how a crime reporter gets embroiled in the big bad world of the business of news. The Editor-in-Chief of a crime news channel where scribes endorse products and cops abuse reporters for not giving them information that they need.

Clearly the research gone into making this film is minimal.

Crime reporter of Pulse 365, Samar Grover(Emraan Hashmi) interviews a sharpshooter and soon gets sacked because the expose sends ripples in the organisation and upsets the investors.

Enter Lisa(Neha Dhupia) who runs Crime 24, a rival news channel. She offers Grover a job and pays him a dream salary with lucrative perks like a plush house and even a BMW. Crime 24 is owned by Roger Khanna(Aditya Pancholi) who has personal business interests in the channel's growth.

There is more to Khanna than meets the eye; he is ready to make his channel number one at any cost. He even arranges an in house system with which the channel can tap the phones of cops. Grover is soon dragged into Khanna's bad world of crime and then starts the chase to escape.

In the end Grover wants to expose the bad guy Roger Khanna so he goes back to his old turf Pulse 365 and soon gets Khanna arrested. Grover's long speech in the end only drags the film further leaving no impact.

Emraan Hashmi and Neha Dhupia do their bit but one wonders as to what drew them to do this film. Sagarika Ghatge gets a raw deal with a small role as Emraan's love interest.

Pritam's music is below the mark and the camera movements are outdated. Editor-in-Chief is seen singing and dancing, which makes it unrealistic.

This is the most amateur attempt to make a film on media business. Watch news channels which at least give something more sensational then the Emraan Hashmi-starrer Rush.

Why can't filmmakers, who make movies on the media, get their basic facts right, asks Rohit Khilnani, in his review of Rush.

Quite a few filmmakers seem to be fascinated by the television media business. But whether it was the Amitabh Bachchan [ Images ] starrer Rann [Images ] or Emraan Hashmi's [ Images ] latest film Rush, none of them even get their basic facts right.

In Rush, cops walk into a news channel office and get hold of a reporter in the canteen and abuse him because he refuses to give them the information of a sharpshooter who he recently interviewed. Have we ever heard of police walking into news channels and abusing and insulting reporters?

Samar Grover (Emraan Hashmi) is a crime reporter, who is asked to leave his news channel Pulse 365 because of his big expose, an interview with a sharp shooter that has caused some trouble with the investors of the news channel.

He is soon hired by media tycoon Lisa (Neha Dhupia [ Images ]) of another channel Crime 24, who offers him a high salary, a car and the post of the Editor-in-Chief of the channel. Crime 24 is owned by Roger Khanna (Aditya Pancholi), who believes 'Bad News is Good News'.

From his lifestyle and working style, soon it gets clear that Khanna is not a straight guy, he is only using Samar to achieve his personal goals.

To get high TRPs, Khanna has installed some gadgets inside the news channel office which tap the phones of the police, no less! And that's how Crime 24 gets the news before everyone else.

Clearly no one told the makers that there are a few things that channels in India [Images ] cannot and do not do, whether for TRPs or business. Grover, who is the editor of a crime channel, is also seen endorsing food products.

Emraan Hashmi plays his part with honesty but it doesn't look like his contribution will save this film. After a series of hits and critically acclaimed roles this one will do no good to Hashmis' rising career.

Neha Dhupia looks pretty and does her bit.

The rest of the actors are wasted.

The shooting style in a lot of scenes and even the songs with spot lights on actors gives the feel of the 1980s cinema.

We cannot recommend Rush.

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