Too many fans seem to be blown away

Expected more

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

I can't believe that so many people who have commented here actually liked this junk of a movie. I also can't believe that Dharmendra himself asked his director friend Anil Sharma to make this complete mess of a movie for his family. All these years Dharmendra did so many good films and the best among them were Sholay, Sultanat, Saazish, International Crook, Kahani Kismat Ki, Dadagiri, Karishma Kudarat Ka, Katilon Ke Katil, Dharam Veer, Insaniyat Ke Dushman, Hukumat and many more. But how the hell he got himself and his whole family into this mess of a movie is something I will never understand. Fist of all the story is a complete copy of Rocky 4 to be honest. Here Bobby Deol plays the Appolo Creed(Carl Weathers) while Sunny Deol plays the Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) and both these brothers make a complete mess of this whole badly scripted and even poorly acted nonsense movie. First of all these gentlemen should have thought about how different was Sly in all his movies and in the Rocky 4 part he was at the peak of his career and he looked completely ripped after getting years of training from 2 times Mr. Olympia Franco Columbo(also a friend of Arnold Schwarzenegger). In contrast Sunny Deol looked like a yellow bear without any innocent cute looks of an animal(esp bear). He is overweight, completely out of shape, has no muscle whatsoever to come closer to even a 61 year Sylvester Stallone now. And he looks even worse with a hairy chest which again reminds me of an old bear(only bear looks much better). And to make the things worse he acts like he is the only man left in the world who knows some boxing and he is supported in his childish acting and behavior by his half drunken father. In the Rocky 4 Sylvester Stallone always plays a cool and calm guy and his amazingly handsome Adonis looks really made him unmatchable for the rest of the world let alone Punjab. I would say that both Dharamendra and Sunnny Deol should do some serious exercise and stop drinking immediately to avoid further damage to their bad health(family health). Also they should leave Bobby do some family business(not movies please) as we Dharmendra fans can't stand him anymore. I really hope they will take some lessons from this stinker of a movie(Apne) and look at the world around with open and sensible minds so that we may get a chance to see the great father and son duo we once saw in Suntanat. I would say avoid this movie at all costs, if you really don't have anything to do then better watch some better looking animals on TV (animal planet), but not in this stinker.

Great Power Punch by DEOLS, Great movie at all, the focus of movie is on "BIG D" i.e. Dharam Ji and Dharam Ji gives the signal that "He is Back" to rock, with lots of emotions, melody drama the movie is a perfect family drama. While watching the movie you will realize that your are watching your own family drama. Sunny Deol again do the great job with the small role to his side, he give lots of attention to "Big D" and Brother Bobby. Bobby also did the great job. The story of the movie is average but the emotions, chemistry between the TRIO did the right job and the becomes HIT. Film Director Anil Sharma (Family Director) did good job and has done magic of bringing the TRIO first time in Bollywood Industry. Kiron Kher, Shilpa Shetty, Katrina Kaif, Divya Dutta,etc. had small roles but they had done it with heart. The music is good, great cinematography specially of the Boxing ring, good editing, at last good movie to watch. A great family entertainer. 10 out of 10 Best Actor Award for Dharam Ji

Too bad that I was just thinking for the past 1 month that this movie will be nothing but an ego show of the deols. I watched it yesterday and after the movie finished, I just thought- "We Indians rate the movie on the basis of what we see in promos.".. OK, just consider Tara rum pum, It began to bore me within fifteen minutes. The racing sequence was so pathetic.. I was wondering where this kinda race happens on this planet. The kids were equally worse.Coming back to 'Apne', this will surely go down among the underrated films of 2007. I last saw a great sports sequence in a Hindi movie in 'Jo Jeeta Wahi Sikander'. And then, I saw it here. Boxing scenes were well directed, if not excellent. Acting of the three deols were equally good.I don't usually favor emotional and long films. This film had both. it was long and highly emotional. But I didn't feel anytime that it was getting on me. May be thats what you call brilliant film making.

Normally I avoid Sunny Deol movies. I made the mistake of recently watching 'Fool and Final' (actually I'd forgotten that Deol was in it). The reason I watched Apne was Shilpa Shetty, Kiron Kher, Victor Bannerjee and Divya Dutta (all three have very small roles). With some alterations in the screenplay, better actors, a better director, better background score and a few more better things, 'Apne' could have been a worthwhile flick.I'm going to be nice by calling it mediocre as Dharmendra had a lot of expectations from it and I'd feel mean by being really really honest. All this 'high-tech' effects were crap (e.g. the x-ray view, moving camera, slow motion and rib cracking garbage just made the film more tacky and gave it a pretentious 'appeal'). The appearance of the title track in the background echoing throughout the whole film is highly irritating. In fact none of the songs stand out (most of them are abysmal) thanks to Himesh Reshammiya.Anil Sharma's direction is very poor which is not a surprise considering his last two flicks. Sunny Deol is much less annoying than his other flicks but hé still irritates. Ditto for Bobby Deol. Dharmendra gives a good performance as the stubborn and obsessed father. Bannerjee and Shetty make their presence felt in smaller roles. Katrina Kaif merely plays the standard bimbo doctor. Kirron Kher is good in some scenes and over the top in others.The screenplay takes (or steals) a lot from 'Million Dollar Baby', 'Rocky' (can't remember which one) and 'Cinderella Man' among other boxing flicks. In spite of so many sources, 'Apne's screenplay is pretty messed up. You're better off rewatching 'Life in a Metro'.