With great power comes great responsibility said Peter Parker aka Spiderman. While watching Krrish 3 this line rings in your mind quite repeatedly. There’s no escaping from the fact that the onus of responsibility is almost always placed on the director’s shoulder especially when he is making a superhero flick. It is indeed a tightrope walk to keep the audiences thrilled with the superhero’s powers and simultaneously weave a concrete plot to expose his vulnerability and his human side.
Hrithik Roshan starring Krrish 3 delivers on the power front, but it doesn’t move you quite emotional. So you see the desi man-in-black doing some unimaginable duties-from bringing an ill fated air-plane to a screeching halt in order to save lives of people on board to carry the top chunk of a collapsing skyscraper on his mighty shoulders. He even takes on genetically mutated creepy creatures single-handedly. Visually these adventures look stunning, but unlike Koi Mil Gaya - the first part of Roshan’s sci-fi franchise- that had its heart at the right place, Krrish 3 seems soulless.
Even if the brisk pace of the first half of the film keeps you thrilled, the second half is crammed with sketchy VFX’s. The highly predictable and unimaginative plot doesn’t add to the thrill quotient either. In the end, you get a movie that may delight you with its indulgent special effects, but the formulaic story leaves you disheartened.
