Really Surprised!

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

A different way of telling a story

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Reviews are to only give you a inform the reader of how another viewer perceived the film.Then it's ultimately up to the reader to decide to either watch or avoid. I personally say at all costs avoid. This movie was absolutely ridiculous. I love Bollywood films but I believe that whomever wrote the Screenplay ahem.... Shiraz Ahmed. Believed the viewers where either completely retarded or in our early teens use the slight of hand by putting good looking people on screen while wiping their butts with the plot. The Director is just at fault because an actor is only as good as his or her director. The action was completely impossible and ignored physics. For example.Spoilers The Boat/Car Chase Scene when our hero Ranvir Singh played by Saif Ali Khan is chasing in a boat a no named evil white dude in a rinky dink car. Our hero decides he can cut off evil white guy in the boat and somehow manages to JUMP the speeding boat onto the road without any ramp for said boat. All the while our hero is managing to climb out of the boats driver seat and maintain his balance. Then the rocket propelled boat that can jump with the need of any ramp lands on the road just in front of evil white mans car and crashed into the hero's speeding boat. At the last minute our hero leaps into the air and lands on the hood of the rinky dink car and of course thwarts the evil white man. Now anyone with at least a quarter of a brain can understand that boats don't just leap out of the water alone and for arguments sake lets say that the boat did indeed have a ramp then when the boat came to a sudden stop our hero would have kept going straight on through to the other side of the road not jumping on top of the hood of the vehicle that just crashed into the speeding boat. The actors are no better than the producers and director. All they saw was their paychecks and ignored the script entirely. Then we have our antagonist Armaan Malik played by John Abraham and is the bad guy so we know how this will turn out. I nearly busted out laughing when after revealing he was a street fighter and says he has never lost a total of 125 fights. Come on how about 1,250,222.151,215 fights instead since realism and physics don't seem to be an issue. Let's go for broke. If you do intend to watch then I will leave out the absolute ridiculous ending in the airplane, but I will say this A pressurize emergency airlock in a jet takes thousands of pounds of pressure to release the emergency exit and can't be done with human hands while in the air it's physically impossible. Some Hollywood films are guilty of this as well as thinking the viewers are nothing but a drooling bunch of apes.The movie was nothing but a way for the producers to make a quick buck and for the actors to ignore the screenplay and get paid. Please avoid this movie at all costs. It doesn't matter how much you polish a turd it's still sh*t.

Race 2 (2013) IMDb- 5.4 RJG Rating- 05Sequel to the blockbuster hit Race ,follows Ranvir's latest plan for revenge.Starring- Saif Ali,John Abraham,Deepika ,Jacqueline Director- Abbas-MastanNone of the actors are of any good.The only thing Saif Ali Khan does is give out his "know it all" stare.John Abraham proves once again that he has no other talents than modeling.His only contributions to the movie are his various shirtless scenes.As a villain he is a big time fail.Anil Kapoor is another wasted talent.He and Amisha Patel dish out various fruit related (im not kidding,all their dialogs are fruit related!) puns.Although both Deepika and Jacq have some story related role ,they only score on the skin show department.Its easy to mistake the story for being written by an 8 year old who probably ate too much chocolate.Within 5 minutes from the start ,it starts getting beyond the realm of ridiculousness.Its so bad that i wanted to 'facepalm' myself permanently for watching the idiocy that unfolded on screen.Cheating poker ,speed based bomb,stealing historical items ,the list goes on,its all so idiotic that it starts getting hilarious in the second half.One of the best qualities of the first movie were its twists.With Race 2 ,the twists and turns can be seen a mile away.Its all too obvious and predictable.Almost all of them are shamelessly recycled from Hollywood.This movie is an insult to the human senses.Abbas-Mastan have either gone nuts or are just trying to make quick cash with their worthless movies.They fill the movie with stylish shots trying hard to cover up the dumb story.Even here they fail.The visual effects are very poor and seem to be a decade old technology.The overdose of stylish sequences drag the movie even more.The action sequences are too long and the comedy is very poor.The fruit related jokes are the most utterly lamest things I've ever heard in an action movie.Why fruits? Was it to support the cherry popping jokes? There's no other reason for fruit comedy in Race 2!! The only plus point that can be salvaged from Race 2 is its music.The music videos were interesting and helped to increase the movies tempo.Overall Race 2 is one of the worst movies I've seen in 2013.Stay away from it.The music videos can be seen on Youtube for free.Acting- 0/5 Story- 0/5 Direction- 0/5 Action- 1/5 Thriller- 1/5

After the Abbas Mastan hit of 2008 "Race", was waiting very patiently for the sequel and after much fanfare and hype Race 2 joins the long list of Bollywood sequels to hit cinema in the past few years.Sadly Race 2 comes no where near the original and disappoints big time.The only saving grace is Saif, his expressions, acting and charisma is what carried the movie. From the start of the movie when he bets millions on the roulette in the casino he truly does justice to his role. Sadly the Writer lets him down with the flawed script holes. One example is Omisha (Jacqueline) posing as Sonia's (Bipasha) sister, assuming that Saif's character has never seen her picture!!!. Also why no villain checks the bounty completely after the deal is made even if the amount is not in millions but billions!!! etc etc.John Abraham and Deepika lack the chemistry of brother and sister. Of course they cannot act either.Why did Anil Kapoor has to choose this role is beyond my wildest imaginations, i know his character loves fruits but the fruity jokes were one too many and got stale at the end. Amisha Patel is forgetful as the secretary Cherry, another bad character choice for her.Jacqueline Fernandez walks through her role like a robot, the girl can't act even if here life depends on it.Overall 4 stars due to some decent Songs and cinematography.

Abbas-Mustan has made their career churning thrillers which worked earlier but off recent their films were badly made ones like 36 China Town, Naqaab and Players. Race(2008) however succeeded though it was a bad rehash of Goodbye Lover with so many twists that it got messy in the end.But as per the current trend there decided to make a sequel. The problem with bollywood thrillers, is that there try to mix masala,songs and try to make the film appeal to everyone thus loosing it's essence. Race 2 follows the same template of the original, it has twists which keep coming, so much that you're sure in advance that the twist will happen. The film starts off well, John's character is well handled, even Saif's character is well introduced. Just like the original, here too it starts with a voice-over by Anil Kapoor. The film does get attention grabbing initially one awaits what will happen next, There are some irritants, one being Anil and Amisha's characters which try too hard to make you laugh at the wrong places. In AM's earlier films Johny Lever was used to evoke laughter,he also was in the original but here the director uses Anil and Amisha for comic relief which does get irritating. Even for people who watch Hollywood films, like Skyfall, will be disappointed as the CGI in the stunts all come across as laughable, even there will laugh throughout at the film at the poor attempt at aping the west. But that apart, the first half has a smooth sailing, but there are several loopholes in the script, the heist looks too easy paling compared to the ones witnessed in recent Hollywood films, though this comparison maybe wrong but yet the way the heist is conducted looks pathetic. John's fight is well handled though I don't understand what was the use of making it look like a fight from Dabaang in between with close ups of John's chest getting bashed and the Matrix Inspired flying. The fight in the plane looks so laughable it makes you cringe, also the CGI reminds you of films made in the 1990s, The climax leaves a window open for a part III, Be warned. The film ends just like the original.Direction by Abbas Mustan is good in parts Music is superb, most songs retain the same kinda style of the original, The Party song is superb, Lat Lag Gayi is superb too, Allah Duhai is a fantastic number but it looks forced in the film. John can't dance, even Saif and Anil aren't that great dancers and it makes it laughable. Camera-work is superb, the various locales add spunk to the film, like in all AM films, SFX is terrible Dialogues range from laughable to some smart ones.Saif Ali Khan reprises his role from the original and yet again does a superb job though it's hardly too demanding for his calibre. In his intro he has a blonde hair look which is never seen in the film, perhaps for his next film Go Goa Gone. John Abraham looks cool and returns to villainy after ages, perhaps his last being Zinda, he plays his part well though it doesn't demand much from him either, Though he does tend to get laughable when he screams especially during the fight scenes. Deepika Padukone after her superb act in Cocktail(with Saif again) is quite good in her part, though it doesn't demand much from her either. Jackqueline Fernandez is terrible, she looks also very terrible except in the Lat Lag Gayi song, with her uncontrolled hair. Her voice is dubbed(Surprisingly like in the original where Katrina's voice was dubbed awfully too), she makes you cringe with her bad performance, she has never been known as an actress and has to work hard on. Anil Kapoor is wasted in his role though he does add some funny moments but from the actor of his calibre it looks disgusting, also some of the PJS are in bad taste. Amisha Patel is headache inducing, in her role an equally pathetic Sameera Reddy had done in the original. She has billed as a special appearance though her role is throughout. Amongst rest Aditya Panscholi in a cameo, does the same role he has been doing off recently in most films, he has hardly 2-3 scenes though he does his job well yet it is getting repetitive. Amongst rest Rajesh Khattar is okay.Bipasha has a blink and miss role.