Ratings:1.5/5 Reviewer: Raja Sen Rediff So what happens if a film -- one ostensibly in the guise of a comedy -- doesn't try too hard? The humour here isn't grating, overdone, outrageous, offensive, excruciating, unwatchable. There isn't a single line in Kunder's film that actually works, leaving us with a film that, while commendably brisk in a 100-minute package, refuses to get going at all. Does Joker hold up, then, as a children's film? Not a chance. It's clean, sure, bereft of swearing or innuendo (yet with a sultry item song) but it's also daft. The aliens aren't anything to write home about.
Ratings:1.5/5 Reviewer: Gaurav Malani Times Of India As a one-line idea Joker might have appeared as an interesting concept. But when the one line is sketched (rather stretched) into a full-length film, you realize that it was better restricted till the one-line only. Like a joker, the film makes a complete fool of itself. However it fails to make you laugh. The circus clown is funnier!The fundamental flaw of the film is that the moment where you feel there's something actually happening in the story, the film ends. Prior to that the narrative just keeps beating around the bush with its silly rural setup and caricatured characters of villagers.
Ratings:1/5 Reviewer: Saibal Chatterjee NDTV Joker is a crude joke of a film that will leave you in tears unless you have a stomach strong enough to digest such unmitigated junk.Occasionally, trash does have its uses in the domain of entertainment. But when it decomposes and turns into putrid garbage, it stinks. Yes, Joker is a load of rubbish that belongs in the dump yard.What Joker delivers in the garbled guise of the genre plumbs such depths of vapidity that it stands no chance of ever coming up for air.Give Joker a miss if you value your sanity and money. It gives commercial Hindi cinema a bad name.
Ratings:1/5 Reviewer: Aniruddha Guha DNA The best thing I can say about Joker is that it’s better than Tees Maar Khan. Listing out the inanities of Joker would take an obnoxiously long amount of time and effort, in addition to the two hours the film saps out of your soul watching it. Unfortunately, Joker isn’t as awful as you expect it to be, falling a few degrees short of entering the ‘So Bad It’s Good’ category.oker, sadly, doesn’t make the cut even there. Total fail.
Ratings:2/5 Reviewer: Roshni Devi Koimoi What’s Good: The direction; the music; the cinematography; some puns.What’s Bad: The predictable storyline.Loo Break: None.Watch or Not?: It’s a timepass watch but not really engrossing.Joker is an amusing but predictable fare. Nothing out-of-this-world.Shirish Kunder’s premise for Joker is too simplistic. Obviously, logic takes a backseat but it’s the predictability that is the real downer.
Ratings:2/5 Reviewer: Rohit Vats IBNLive You can find almost all the known comedians in Joker but their acts depend on the director's instructions.Joker tries hard to keep the momentum going but it needs better acting for that.Aliens, aliens everywhere but not a logic to find.Shreyas Talpade's gibberish works at times. Rest of the actors are either overacting or just delivering their lines.Joker is technically satisfactory but it needed a more meaty story.Overall, Joker is funny in parts. Better acting could have helped it.Joker gets 2 out of 5 for its VFX, Akshay Kumar, Kafirana and Shreyas Talpade's gibberish
Ratings:1/5 Reviewer:Zee News Zee News Joker’ clearly lacks the ‘wow’ factor which it abundantly promised in the film’s trailer. Entertainment wise, the film really has nothing to offer. but all that has been washed out as the film has come as a big disappointment. The only saving grace is in the form of Akshay Kumar who desperately manages to tether the film’s loose elements into a mediocre fun caper, but even his efforts succumb to the weak plot and utterly mismanaged cast of the film. The story is very run-of the-mill.
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