Top Gear

It's criminal to name a film Top Gear when it features one of the all-time least exciting car chases. While the protagonist Arjun (Aadi Saikumar) drives his janky yellow taxi around Hyderabad evading assassins, the camera flips between extreme close-ups of his spinning wheels and drone shots of his cab winding up and down the same four scenic roads of the city - all deserted. The chase hardly qualifies as one, given the yawning stretch of tar between him and real danger. To top it, a raucous background score momentarily turns you deaf. So let's call this poorly-scripted, badly-directed film wh....