Zero Reviews
Zero is a wild film that imagines a classless India in which a small town dwarf gets with a rocket scientist and a movie star, rejects them both, goes to Mars, and returns. It's the most misunderstood film of Shah Rukh Khan's career.
Full Review | Dec 22, 2023
Thank the cosmos for Bollywood's dimpled wonder, his charisma and enthusiasm undiminished by his 53 years, because without him, Zero has little going for it.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 29, 2021
The heavy-handed humour that it generates hinges on the character's lack of inches. Not funny at all.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 21, 2020
Too ambitious in its vision and indiscriminately illogical, Rai falters in exploring both inner spaces and outer space.
Full Review | Jul 29, 2019
The film might be the worst reminder of SRK's incompetence in completely inhabiting a character.
Full Review | Mar 11, 2019
Zero is a funny film backed by a unique storyline and embellished with interesting elements like space travel that you may not have seen in Bollywood films before.
Full Review | Jan 17, 2019
Zero is all heart. It probably won't work if you start thinking about the probability of it all, but after a wobbly half-hour I found the film easy to embrace.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 15, 2019
A star, falling, once the count reaches zero. And crashing down to earth.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 15, 2019
[Characters] are individually interesting but the connective tissue between them is so thin that the narrative starts to wobble precariously.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 15, 2019
All of that would have been forgiven if the second half of the film didn't venture into the ludicrous territory. Singh qualifying to be a Mars-mule in the US was the proverbial last straw.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 15, 2019
In Zero, the defects are physical, propped up by special effects but lack a strong emotional connect.
Full Review | Jan 15, 2019
The first half of Zero is flat-out fantastic, an unabashed charm-offensive from Rai, Khan and the film's writer Himanshu Sharma... It is as the film continues, and gets more fanciful, that the seams start to show.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 21, 2018
A movie that probably sounded interesting at the concept stage but ends up being irretrievably outlandish in its execution.
Full Review | Dec 21, 2018
Zero has lofty ambitions but when it comes to delivery, it falls too short.
Full Review | Dec 21, 2018
Shah Rukh Khan is experimenting with each film and must be admired for his zeal to attempt something out of the ordinary and not playing it safe. He has given it all to the film and makes you believe in Bauaa's madness.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 21, 2018
Inconsistency plagues the movie...while the film has a wealth of references to Bollywood and its stars, these details don't compensate for a story that starts with a beautiful plot, but takes off on a bizarre ride.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 21, 2018
