Review: All dressed up with nowhere to go makes ‘Acid Factory’ a dampener

With a brood of out of work actors – Dia Mirza, Fardeen Khan, Aftab Shivdasani and Dino Morea, as well as the fact that the movie in question is a trite remake of ‘Unknown’, it seems Suparn Verma has boarded a sinking ship! ‘Acid Factory’ is about a motley group that one fine day wakes up in a factory. With a galaxy of stars that simply fails to deliver their dialogues with a straight face, ‘Acid Factory’ is a slipshod affair.

Spicezee Bureau

Mumbai: With a brood of out of work actors – Dia Mirza, Fardeen Khan, Aftab Shivdasani and Dino Morea, as well as the fact that the movie in question is a trite remake of ‘Unknown’ (2006), it seems Suparn Verma has boarded a sinking ship! With a storyline that is a brazenly lifted from ‘Unknown’, ‘Acid Factory’ is about a motley group that one fine day wakes up in a factory. ‘Acid Factory’ opens with all the protagonists suffering from partial memory loss – amnesia; with no one knowing why they are in a dilapidated state with sealed spaces. Suparn vainly tries to jazz up the flick with high adrenaline rushing scenes complete with unnecessary stunts and explosions while the ‘Matrix’ outfits look completely cliché! The narrative of ‘Acid Factory’ works on two levels; one is the flashback mode where all the characters get to know how they exactly end up being locked in the factory and the other being the viewers’ point of view. Eventually, as the plot opens up, one gets to know that two of the inmates are kidnapped by the rest of the three protagonists and a call from the gang leader planning to kill the two hostages sets the ball rolling as one speculates who is the hostage and who is the kidnapper till the riveting climax leads to an action packed ending. In terms of cinematography, Verma has closely studied Sanjay Gupta’s craft as the former tries every trick of trade to make the movie slick and cool. Yet, the black leather dresses, slow motion panning, jump cuts, camera angles, stunts and sepia tints fail to uplift the sagging BO fortunes of ‘Acid Factory.’ With a galaxy of stars that simply fails to deliver their dialogues with a straight face, ‘Acid Factory’ is a slipshod affair. The only saving graces of ‘Acid Factory’ are suave Danny Denzongpa, scheming Irrfan Khan and Gulshan Grover (who plays a gloomy cop). Ratings: One cheer for this one!