Starring: Ajay Devgn, Sonakshi Sinha, Yami Gautam, Manasvi Mamgai

Directed by Prabhu Dheva

Rating - * (1 star)

Let's begin by asking five quick questions to Prabhu Dheva:

Why did you make a man with two left feet like Ajay Devgn dance in front of camera?

Why did you waste 1.5 hours of screen time by filming Sonakshi Sinha?

Why exactly did you cast South actor Anandaraj as the villain?

What did you sign a talented actress like Yami Gautam to play a nothing role?

Why did you yet again copy Rohit Shetty's trademark action sequences?

Action Jackson is a terrible mash up of terrible story, terrible acting, terrible dance, terrible action, terrible editing and terrible everything. It pains one to see a gem of a talent like Ajay Devgn squandering away immense energy and time doing utter garbage like Action Jackson. There is only one possible explanation as to why Ajay could have done the movie. Perhaps to experience the feeling of playing Rajinikanth on screen where with one swipe of his sword blade an entire battalion falls dead.

It's a given these days that if Sonakshi is part of your masala movie she needs to be given three songs opposite the lead hero and the major part of the first half also automatically becomes her sole fiefdom.

Prabhu Dheva has no qualms in insulting the intelligence of the viewer by shooting scenes that he feels will make one fall off their seats laughing. Sample this. Kunal Kapoor with a plate full of puris rides pillion with Ajay Devgn. The gushing wind makes the puris to fly off the plate and land straight into the mouth of a bike rider. No Prabhu Sir, no. This definitely is not funny. It was rightly debated at Indiantelevision.com's The Content Hub that there is a big dearth of comedy writers in India.

The only one who stands to gain from this mindless enterprise is Manasvi Mamgai who has been exposed in all true sense. The debutant has been given a meaty role to perform and she does well as the psychotic seductress.

Oh yes, did we forgot to give a plot synopsis. That's precisely because there is no plot in Action Jackson. By all means, give this one a miss.