Love Story 2050: Part-predictable, part-gobbledygook

PREPOSTEROUS TALE: Love Story 2050 will be used as a benchmark to compare other bad movies for years.

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The special effects aren't half bad, to be honest, but director Harry Baweja is so clearly out of his depth in the sci-fi department that he manages to misuse even those. Unable to integrate them intelligently into the script, I can literally see him in front of the computer screaming, "More, I want more" to his effects guys, making sure his every frame is littered with effects even if they seem to make little sense in the context of the story.

Love Story 2050 is a love-story after all, and an insipid, passionless one at that. The leads share no chemistry whatsoever, and their innumerable love songs only slacken the pace of this film, which hobbles along punishing, clocking in at three monstrously long hours.

Boman Irani hams it up as the mad scientist maama, and Priyanka Chopra pouts and preens and flutters her eyelashes, she's earnest too but fails to inspire either affection or sympathy. The crippling blow, however, comes in the form of the film's hero, newcomer Harman Baweja who is so busy trying to look, sound, dance and fight like Hrithik Roshan that we get no glimpse at all of Harman himself.

I'm tempted to use that inevitable line — the robots in the film perform better than the actors — but no, that's not true. I believe they're merchandising scale versions of Boo and Q2, the film's two robotic characters and I'm considering buying them just so I can smash them into pieces for being the most annoying sidekicks on screen since Jar Jar Binks.

If there's one thing the film succeeds in doing, it's in uniting the audience in their relief as they step out of the cinema. Coming out of the film you feel like prisoners of war who've finally been let out of concentration camp.

For the halfway decent special effects and the sheer courage to embark on this impossible moviemaking mission, I'll go with one out of five for director Harry Baweja's Love Story 2050, go in with no expectations at all and you'll still come out disappointed.

Rating: 1 / 5 (Poor)