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Holiday: It is a drab and dreary action thriller

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AkshayTough guys don’t sing and dance, do they? Hang on, Captain Virat Bakshi, the pugnacious protagonist of Holiday, isn’t your average action hero.

He is much more than just a man in military fatigues. Kick-boxer, sharpshooter, dancer, spy: he has the ability to become what he wills.

But one thing he certainly isn’t is a tinker. Half-measures definitely aren’t his scene.

He is an invincible superhero primed to put all invincible superheroes in the shade.

In the city that never sleeps, he leaps before he thinks and pulls off acts of impossible derring-do, not a hair out of place.

He out manoeuvres, outruns, outguns and outpunches everyone that comes in his way, and all this when he is home on a sabbatical from border skirmishes. Imagine how potent this incredible man would be on the battlefield!

But should a soldier on holiday be allowed to take leave of his senses and run riot? Writer-director A R Murugadoss would have us believe that he should for the greater good of the nation.

The suave DIA (Defence Intelligence Agency) operative is, as it transpires, a DIY bone doctor too.

A violent climactic duel with a terrorist on a vessel anchored off the Mumbai coast leaves the hero with a badly twisted right arm.

Unfazed, he dares the boyish villain to unlock his handcuffs. The baddie heeds the plea.

What happens next generates a burst of unintended mirth. Our Man Flint knocks his own dislocated bones into place before proceeding to turn the tables on his evil adversary.

By that point in the film, which is nearly three hours in, Holiday is a ride gone horribly wrong.

It is a drab and dreary action thriller in which neither the action nor the thrills rise to any great heights.

In the end, Holiday resembles the hero’s aforementioned broken arm, a crooked and cracked limb in desperate need of a bone replacement surgery.

Two stars for this one.

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