Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Varun Chaudhary Remember that reasonably engrossing Hollywood thriller Se7en, in which two sleuths go looking for a serial killer with a thing for the seven deadly sins?E3N gimmicks its name similarly and gives us three characters in search of a criminal, but it doesn't borrow any of the smarts from the Hollywood film. This official remake of a Korean mystery with a kidnapping and a death at its heart is a sluggish drag for the most part, brightened only occasionally by a scene or a line.Bachchan plays John, an elderly man still stunned by grief, eight years after the death of a little girl. He will continue to search for the person who caused it, despite being dissuaded by people all around him : wheelchair-bound wife ( Padmavati Rao), sympathetic policewoman Sarita ( Balan), and cop-turned-priest Father Martin ( Nawaz). He will persist with his dogged pursuit for justice and truth whatever happens. A fresh kidnapping turns on the spotlight on the old case again, and as new clues come to light, John's search acquires an intensity and purpose, and we sense, as he does, the coming of an end which will lead to some answers and a sort of peace.This kind of dark story with vicious undertones ( whenever a little girl goes missing, a shiver goes down your spine) could have become a terrific morality play. How does a shocking death, especially of a young life, impact the living? Is it living or a counting out the days till your own passing? Is grief something you can ever get past? And how does guilt play out in all this? TE3N is a case of sadly missed opportunities. Because there are rousing actors in here, and there's a real city to play it all out in. Kolkata is a perfect location for a film like this with its atmospheric patches and the iconic Howrah-Hoogly vistas, reminding you of producer Sujoy Ghosh's far more engaging 'Kahaani', but how a man clad in a dark hoody ( in sultry Kolkata) manages to move around those streets so freely remains an unsolvable mystery.Its treatment does both place and characters in, turning everything lackadaisical. In its attempt to be less 'dark', loud background music is added in at each step. The plot has too much fuzz, and the characters are all surface : Bachchan's droopy facial lines, Balan's stolid-cop-stomping—these painstakingly drawn outlines call attention to themselves, but do not afford us inner details. Why is her full-fledged act termed a guest appearance? That mystery too stays unsolved. Only Nawaz's guilt-ridden priest breaks free once in a way, and a few red herrings infuse some intrigue, especially towards the end.

Rawal Afzal This film is a heart-stopper, the suspense and the whole investigation carried by John and by the police on the other hand is as exciting and nail-biting as a soccer match that is decided on penalties. Wow, I felt strange numbness in the head in absolute awe of the film's climax after getting done with it, it was just an out of the world ending! One of the very best thrillers of all-time, without a doubt in my opinion.All of what I write would of course apply to the original South Korean film as well that this one is based upon. A highly unique concept of revenge this film provides, one in which the revenge is well confined within the LIMITS OF JUSTICE and is a revenge that is delivered THROUGH THE LAW, as opposed to the usual ones where they show the hero go on a killing spree to avenge a beloved one's death and sometimes take the whole thing to the excesses and extremes. It was very smart to show the main character being a grand-father, an old man, whose main weapon was not his physical strength to resort to violence, but instead his very sharp mind and the patience to keep digging the same thing for years in a hope that he'll get there one day, and then to devise a plan with, again, his mental abilities being his strength - something that perhaps wouldn't quite have suited being shown being achieved by a man of a young age. The whole film itself and the way one lead and hint would lead to another set of those was mind-blowing and very, very engaging to the viewers.Addressing the point of remaking a whole film, my stance on this has always been that I don't really mind copying films, as long as the original source is credited and acknowledged, and as long as the application is good and it makes sense. I don't mind it, as by remaking a film from another language you're ultimately giving the audience that understands your language a chance to joy a film that they might otherwise not be able to due to the linguistic barrier.The performances by Vidya Balan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui were awesome and highly commendable, but a special mention should go to Amitabh Bachchan, the ever-green, the ever-reliable and the man capable of pulling off any kind of role, literally! I thought the cast chosen to do the job was a case of some intelligent piece of film-making. All three were most suited to do their respective roles. One thing that kept annoying me throughout the film was having shown Martin now become a priest. I didn't quite think that it made much sense, but the ending scene which revealed how much of a role, although unintended, he played in Angela's death fully settled my objection. Also, it was nice to show the villain having his background, his reason for that crime (as otherwise they mostly show the villain laugh devilishly and claim that he did all that with much pleasure and joy). Not that it justifies the act, but we're humans after all and even the worst of our actions have a reason in our corrupted little mind.Hell, I think I'm going to watch it again very soon! This time around though with my (elder) brother.

vebkumar How badly can you make a movie when you are copying it from another? Te3n badly, apparently. This movie is full of overacting and plot holes so giant that no-one would be surprised if you would end up with less hair at the end of this movie. e.g. it took the geniuses a WHOLE night to figure out that when they had two calls that were verbatim with the same tonal inflection, perhaps the second one was just the first one being played back! Wait... not only did it take them a full night, but their first guess was that the kidnapper used the same words and the same tone 8 years apart! O.M.G. I don't expect much from Abhishek Bachchan - that guy gots to make the dollar bills, yo. But this is truly a discredit to an actor like Nawazuddin Siddiqui who really should have abandoned this movie halfway. As for Vidya Balan: She had a better performance talking to flies about toilets in her latest radio ads. Awful movie - do not watch. It may fool you at first glance because stylistically it can be appealing (initially) but trust me, it's got the same mental level as a saas bahu serial. I want my 2 hours 15 minutes back.

SivakumarBalachandran A tale of unwinding the mystery behind an old case of a missing girl through a new similar small boy abduction case. The film has some of the industries' best talents Big B, Vidya Balan and Nawzudin Siddiqi to play the roles of a grieving grandfather, a police officer and a police officer turned church Pries. The story how these three characters seemingly intertwine to solve the mystery case. Sounds like a solid part isn't it? But somehow the movie has worked only in parts because it loses grip in between with the over stretched screenplay and slow pace. The usage of Calcutta as the backdrop for the story resembles Kahaani. Lots of logic holes like an old man single handed heads to solve a huge case and physically extends himself to some extensive search which involves breaking into offices getting data and manipulating Quite unbelievable.Performances wise I wouldn't vogue for anyone of the big talents because of the director has not done much justice to the characterization which leads their skills in vain.Over all a slow and stretchy thriller which works in parts.