Ra.One disappoints New York

Over bloated,lacking in human  magic and exciting for just about one fourth of its more than two hours run, it crawls for the first 45 minutes, delivers over a dozen lame body jokes, and abounds in miserable stereotypes including Shah Rukh Khan's  ungainly mannerisms as a Tamilian (in the first half).The action picks up just as you start counting how many times Shekhar, the nerdy inventor of a game, has said 'ayyayyo.' Then Ra.One then moves into high action gear for the next hour.The best person to gain from the film directed by Anubhav Sinha with more inane and crude sexual jokes than in any recent Hindi film, is Arjun Rampal . His body language and brooding face creates a quietly menacing villain.

The kid, who argues with his father Shekhar that villains are more enduring and appealing than the virtuous hero, gets one. But in the process the villain Ra.One, who steps into the real world from the game Shekhar had created, kills the inventor.Land Gold Women is worth a watch. He is searching for Lucifer who had defied him in the game world. It does not take him much time to find out the identity of the defiant game player and Ra. One sets out to destroy the challenger.. The boy's persistent belief that his father did not die in a car accident but was killed by Ra.One leads him to defy his mother (Kareena Kapoor ) and bring into their life G.One (Shah Rukh) from the game, who becomes the protector of the family and faces Ra.One in a do or die kind of a climax.

Highly uneven in its script and tone, intermittently exciting and with ill written characters (like one Shahana Goswami , a friend and colleague of Shekhar portrays) Ra.One is one hell of a bumpy ride.But do the onion of the critics matter at all? Given its star cast, fabulous musical score, one stand-out musical staging (Chammak Challo looks fabulous on a big screen), a handful of thrilling chase scenes, and Arjun Rampal's villainy, the movie could do smashing business particularly in India . The younger audiences may particularly cheer the final sequence in which a young kid boosts the morale of G.One (Shah Rukh in a new avatar, dramatically different from the nerdy Shekhar in the first half) against the villain.