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Has Akshay Kumar’s Khiladi act gone all wrong this time around? Seems that way, going by the reviews of his latest film ‘Khilad 786′!

Rediff calls the film unfunny and unclever: “This is no Rowdy Rathore, folks, this is just a gimmick. True, they did infuse it with a lot of other delightful innuendos, and some reference to comic books, but at the same time, ruined with unclever lines and expectant looks.This is a wannabe funny movie, an assault on our collective intellect.”

Zee News blames the script for the fiasco: “The genre of action is the Khiladi’s forte, goes without saying; however, when it remains in the realm of the real. One single man taking on more than 200 goons and flattening them single-handedly – come on, haven’t we had too much of that already? When Akshay Kumar isn’t beating people up or thinking about Asin, which – by the way – hardly happens, he isn’t bad.”

NDTV Movies is least impressed: “Director Ashish R. Mohan, erstwhile Rohit Shetty’s assistant, clearly believes that playing by the numbers is that all one needs to do in order to rustle up a laugh riot. Unfortunately for him, an action comedy is a hard game to tame. What does he have at his disposal? A hammy khiladi, a couple of songs that pass muster and a whole bunch of stuntmen flying all over the place. “