Movie Review: Acid Factory

Acid Factory is a generic blur of metallic blue and fireball orange set to the contrapuntal sounds of blaring techno and eardrum-puncturing noise.

Yes, Acid Factory is silly. Unfortunately, it's not silly fun unless you enjoy really bad movies. It is more video game than movie, though video games have more interesting characters. Also, it is hard to imagine why and how director Suparn Verma could make such a bad remake of the Columbian B-movie 'Unknown', and yet have the gall to proclaim that he had to complete 55 drafts over the course of a year to come up with the final script for Acid Factory.

Coming to the story, a group of men (Fardeen Khan Aftab Shivdasani, Dino Morea, Manoj Bajpayee, Danny Denzongpa, Dia Mirza) find themselves kidnapped and locked up in an Acid Factory. Thanks to some gas (yes, gas!) they’ve been stricken with amnesia and have no idea who they are, where they are, or what has happened to them. As the men compare the tiny shards of memory they can pull from their minds, the audience is treated with exploding cars, bare midriffs, plunging necklines, horrendous attempts at acting and cringe inducing plot twists.

Sanjay Gupta's trademark 'hey look at me I'm incredibly cool' camera is present, and so are the cigarettes, shades, slo-mo sequences and the overbearing, guffaw-inducing attitudes. And I can't think of anything more unintentionally hilarious than Dino Morea's death in the film.

Irrfan Khan is the only saving grace of Acid Factory, he is charismatic as Kaiser (Soze?), the uber cool villain hitting on his buxom moll, locking lips with Dia Mirza and making a fool out of policeman Gulshan Grover over and over again. Fardeen, Aftab and Dino are painfully imprudent in trying to hold onto their characters. Dominatrix Dia Mirza gets to strut about like Lara Croft and is just about passable. And like in 'Luck', Danny Dezongpa is criminally wasted, along with poor Manoj Bajpayee.

Acid Factory is a deluge of bullets and chop-socky madness devoid of style or purpose. Watch it if you like insipid storytelling.