Johnny Gaddaar

Four letters to describe this movie, 'taut'. Not a single loose end. Usually, writing a review involves singling out individual performances, direction, cinematography, etc. However, watching this movie would leave you no time to digress from the plot/story. Everything being so immaculate and pacy that you'd forget that characters in the movie are mere characters.

However, in the hindsight, if I were to dissect each shot in the film with a scalpel, I'd find a lot of thinking involved in its making. Every statement that a character makes in a scene before has an impact inthe shot later. Lets put it this way. If the film were a jigsaw of allits shots andscenes, none of those were a misfit. The more you remember what had happened, been spoken and conveyed in the movie so far, the more you'd enjoy the current scene you are currently watching. Have your thinking hat on for the viewing pleasure of lightening game of chess until its checkmated.

More engrossing than "No Way Out", "Dial M for Murder", "Departed" or thanat least one ofyour all time top 5 thrillers, this film is certainly worth a watch once (read: only once). You'd not see it again as you'd consider it a currentevent/breaking news unfolding on CNN with only a thousand times more attention seeking and entertainment value and you never re-watch an event after it has unfolded. Lets call itthe 'Desert Storm' of Bollywood.