Star Cast :Naseeruddin Shah,Randeep Hooda,Vipin Sharma,Shernaz Patel,Sharat Saxena,Elena Kazan
John Day Movie Reviews ( Recommended 41 %)
John Day Reviews Recommended By Bollywood Hungama - Taran Adarsh
JOHN DAY is a forceful and intense film and the director gets it right by casting two intense actors, who add a lot of weight to the goings-on. Known for dramatics mainly, Naseer has seldom stepped into the action zone, at least in his recent outings. The veteran is authoritative as the hapless father who transforms into a brute to settle scores with the wrong-doers. Randeep stands up to an accomplished actor like Naseer and that's a tall statement indeed. You rarely witness such wicked acts and that's quite a compliment. The actor inculcates verve and dynamism into the depraved character. It's a class act!
John Day Reviews Recommended By Koimoi - Mohar Basu
Solomon clearly misses the soul of the story altogether as he weaves the film that is meant to underline the tragedy of the lives of its characters. However the film refuses to stretch out as a dark thriller coming across as profane product that at best could be convoluted. If those who presumed it’s art cinema, it most definitely is not despite the desperate attempt to attain the creme de le creme status of it. The dramatic twists are flat and the heavy Christian imagery that incessantly catches your attention doesn’t have anything effortless in it. The film’s music is climactic and haunting which will annoy you beyond a point. The film’s editing is plain terrible as it feels like a 5 hour long tirade. Have you ever played a puzzle game where the pieces just refuse to fall in place? This film will replicate just that feeling for you!
John Day Reviews Recommended By The Times Of India - Renuka Vyavahare
John Day, a rip-off of Spanish thriller Box 507, is dark, edgy and brooding thanks to the execution and background score. The debutante director manages to create a mood of suspense as he keeps things unpredictable, especially towards the beginning. However, as the film progresses, the pace drops, scenes look repetitive and the story gets so convoluted that you lose track of characters and their motives.
John Day Reviews Recommended By NDTVMovies - Subhash K. Jha
It is very difficult to speak out openly about the characters and their motivations without giving away the plot. John Day is the kind of clenched yarn that makes you forget that yawning distance between cinema and the audience. You become one with the character's battles, without getting judgemental over their actions.
John Day Reviews Recommended By Rediff - Paloma Sharma
Director Ahishor Solomon’s John Day was supposed to be a dark, twisted thriller that makes you look into your own soul and question the abyss that stares back at you.
John Day Reviews Recommended By Nowrunning - Mansha Rastogi
The movie is so fragmented with too many characters popping at every 10 minutes of the film that you get confused what exactly was the story after all. In order to do justice to each character and sub-plot, the filmmaker loses the main plot starts convoluting his own film. Moreover, the heavy reliance on gore and violence to give the film an edgy film leaves you squirming in your seats.
John Day Reviews Recommended By India Today - Saurabh Dwivedi
The movie was titled 'John Day'. Incomplete, boring and confusing comes easily to the mind when describing the film. All in all, a bland thriller. One can't help but think that Naseeruddin's character John Day is similar to the role he played in 'A Wednesday'. While in 'A Wednesday' he played the common man taking a stand against the system and correcting a few wrongs, in 'John Day' he plays a man who has his own reasons to do what he does.
John Day Reviews Recommended By Movietalkies - MovieTalkies.com
Though the film is a bit dark, and throws up some questions about the character motivations that are not spelt out, like the child-abuse angle of Gautam, the film works immensely well with its involving narrative, and it says just enough for the viewer to buy into the actions of all players. The background score by Sandeep Chowta fills some of the gaps in the pace by building up the momentum, and the deft editing lends itself well to the drama created. Maybe a little too much was left on the editing floor in an effort to keep the pace up, which the general viewer would appreciate, but the viewer looking for a more detailed explanation may miss some deliberation that such central characters present.
John Day Reviews Recommended By India Today - Rohit Khilnani
Even with a credible line up of actors like Naseeruddin Shah, Randeep Hooda and even familiar faces like Makrand Deshpande, Vipin Sharma, Shernaz Patel and Bharat Dabolkar, the director couldn't do justice to this film, which only means that it's an opportunity wasted and how! John Day is best left alone.
John Day Reviews Recommended By Indian Express - Shubhra Gupta
The trouble is not with the sight of so much flowing blood that looks horribly realistic (you'd be surprised at how ketchupy some of the red stuff looks, still, in so many films). Or with female characters lying around in a state of post-coital disarray. The trouble is that there is no coherent plot to hang all of this on, it's just a series of jumbled scenes with too many characters walking in and out, or limping in and out, or being shot at and huddling about in bloody heaps.
John Day Reviews Recommended By Deccan Chronicle - Khalid Mohamed
In terms of scripting, quite clearly, the supporting ensemble could have been etched more strongly, instead of merely serving as weak support systems in the two-handler. A sequence depicting the cop force-feeding biryani to a goon, is plainly creepy. On the technical front, the editing and cinematography are passable. Sandeep Chowtha’s background music score is inconsistent, excellent when it is subtly mood-enhancing but ear-popping when it leaps into Gregorian chants.
John Day Reviews Recommended By Planet Bollywood - Stutee Ghosh
The cinematography and the initial build up all point to a Gothic style dark engaging thriller but falls short miserably. An honest bank manager John Day overnight turns into a gun wielding blood thirsty avenger never once flinching while pulling the trigger. While Naseer definitely puts up a brilliant show everyone and everything else around him seem to be falling apart. Police cop Gautam has an alcoholic girlfriend (Elena Kazan) and the only reason for togetherness seems to be their propinquity to everything dark and painful.