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One particular scene straight out of counter-strike, where John Abraham beats up the baddies while constantly exchanging guns as he runs out ammo, is amazingly well-shot. This POV-sequence can make you feel as if you’re in control. Apart from this, there are quite a few seriously good action scenes spread across the film.

Alas! That’s all the good stuff that one can talk about this movie. The soul of this movie lies in action and it hardly moves an inch beyond that.

The storyline allows Force 2, the sequel to the John Abraham-Genelia starrer Force, to bring sub-plots within the main plot. However, in an attempt to do so, they deviate from the central plot.
John Abraham’s friend who happens to be a RAW agent gets killed and like the usual practice, government disowns him. Now, John is out there to catch the man who orchestrated it all. However, you never feel the angst of the hero to take revenge from it. Although there is a lot of effort invested by John and is clearly visible. The reason Force worked because of the “revenge saga” and that ultimate fight between John and Vidyut Jamwal.

There is no need of Sonakshi in the movie. Literally no need of her. You can eliminate her from the film and there won’t be any effect on the storyline. I bet you can cut out the scenes from the movie and it’ll still be the same. Not that she doesn’t act well but she’s as useless to the plot as any Vestigial Organ is to the human body.

While it is important to develop the character of the villain to make things interesting, just lending screen time does not mean doing that. Going by the image of our “Mumbai police” no-nonsense approach of John, it is baffling that he can listen to so much blabbering and not smack the hell out of him. At least as an audience, I felt like smacking him to make him shut up! In the prequel, Jamwal’s character made the role his own. However, in this case, Tahir Bhasin, couldn’t add that extra dimension to his character.

The movie has been shot well and is worthy of a good action movie. But you so wished they would have tightened the plot. Even though the movie isn’t very long, the presence of multiple storylines fitted into it,you’ll end up feeling it’s too much.
The force sequel isn’t worth your money if you are not an action movie fan. Unless you can watch a movie for its action sequences, you can definitely skip this one.

I’m going with 1.5/5 for Force 2. An extra .5 just for action.

Bullet Raja : My Review

By farooq

On November 29, 2013

In Movies & Entertainment

Bullett Raja: My Review

Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia

Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Jimmy Sheirgill

Runtime: 140 Minutes

The best part about a Tigmanshu Dhulia movie is its characterization and perfectly detailed casting, where definite roles are attached to characters, with added intensity. This has remained the backdrop on which Dhulia has based his movies upon. Sadly, bullet raja, even with a strong ensemble of Dhulia’s regulars fails to achieve the same. Add to that the loose plot, where it swings to-and-fro quite predictably, without anything interesting. There are of course some good scenes, but are far and few scattered across the 140 minute ride of this Bullet. Sadly, that only lands the viewer on already explored ending.

The plot, like many of the most recent movies is based in the Hindi heartland of the politically-violent Uttar Pradesh, where two strangers (Saif Ali Khan as Raja and Jimmy sheirgill as Rudra) bump into each other at a wedding, hit it off , fire around lots of bullets (Unfortunately, not at each other so as to prevent us the misery), become the best of buddies and make some enemies right there too. Power, politics and Gangsters come hand in hand, and that is the underlying plot running through the movie. Put in certain clichés for a masala-entertainer like revenge for a friends’ death, Item number, Desi tamancha (Not to forget the song, which inspires you to fire them in a disco for the sake of dancing) and of course the heartthrob of directors these days for a masala flick, Sonakshi Sinha as the female lead.

Saif shows conviction, but there are only a few scenes where he justifies as to why he was chosen for this role, Sheirgill overdoes his cool gangster appearance, while Sonakshi fills up as just another female lead, where she just eats up the screen space (and yes, I’m not commenting on her size), which could have been used for so much more. The seasoned actors like Raj Babbar, Vipin Sharma, Ravi kishan and even Vidyut Jamwal brighten up the scenes with their small yet pivotal roles, and it is in these scenes where things look a bit smooth. Besides these, there is hardly anything which can hold things together, until the end where the suspense is predictable enough for you to guess it right from the climax.

The things that go for the movie is the pace, some cheeky dialogues, raw action scenes especially the ones involving Vidyut Jamwal, where he is believed to have designed and performed his own stunts and one off chase sequence involving our Bullet raja. It lacks intensity, stuffy and fails to increase the heat, as it’s tagline promises.

Bullet raja is not bad, but fails to fit into the over-viewed and saturated plots based around UP, with lots of violence and where the bad guy is the “hero”. Watch it, if you don’t have anything else to do, just by keeping the expectation levels to the minimum.

I’m going with 1.5 for Tigmanshu Dhulia’s Bullet Raja, which is just another UP-centric movie without any intensity. A bullet’s ride which is worth missing.

Once upon a time in Mumbaai Dobara: My Review

By farooq

On August 15, 2013

In Movies & Entertainment

Cast: Akshay kumar, Sonakshi Sinha, Imran Khan

Director: Milan Luthria

Run time: 160 Minutes

A large sized canvas, with glossier looks and added star power, but failing to realize the true essence of something as necessary as casting and trying to implicate the effective and power-laced dialogues in the previous movie, with just too much of an overdose here, is what Once upon a time in Mumbai Dobara is all about. Disappointing and something which you would never like to watch “dobara”.

On the already laid caricature of its predecessor and branding itself as the sequel, it made the hype it needed with added star power, to try and convert it to be another box-office success. Riding on the success of a previous hit, isn’t easy and this film presents a solid case demonstrating on how not to continue with a franchise, you could just ruin it all.

The plot shapes develops itself as a love triangle between Shoaib (Played by Akshay kumar), Jasmine (Played by Sonakshi Sinha), an aspiring actress coming to Mumbai and ending up becoming the interest of Don Shaoaib and Aslam(played by Imran khan), a loyal of Shoaib working for him from his childhood ends up being in love with Jasmeen as well. The conflict between the two of them for Jasmeen, with the backdrop of a territorial expansion and control over Mumbai and his increasing authority in cricket and films.

The plot resembles on the previous film, with the interchange of good-bad (Ajay-Emraan hashmi) to Bad-good(Akshay-Imran), presence of another item number like the disco number of Parda, this time featuring Hazel crowney, and trying to fit in the essence of OUATIM wherever he could, but failing to match up. This is disappointment for someone with his track record.

Talking about individual performances, Akshay is way out of shape and the character doesn’t approve of him in this shade, even though he hardly removes his shade in the movie, Imran khan is consist in giving out a college students’ performance here again, and Sonakshi Sinha just carries on with the motion except in the last scene where she does show some nerve, but by then all was over.

The biggest blunder which the movie commits is over the top acting by each and everyone, making you exclaim on the proximity of their loudness in expressing their characters in extremely melodramatic manner. The casting is terrible and hardly anyone gets any screen space other than the three leads, which have been put on a dialogue churning spree, with each sentence appearing to be studded with dialogues as if over-the-top ones are being distributed for free.

Director Milan Luthria, whose previous works boasts not only of depth in characters as well as provide space for scenes to speak, appears to be in a hurry. He races through scenes, with nothing but dialogues being machine gunned towards the audience.

The music isn’t anything great and there’s hardly any song that deserves any mention, although the scenes involving Sharjah/UAE has been captured beautifully.

The only scene providing the saving grace is the ending, providing depth which the whole movie couldn’t. maybe a different director, could give it a less glossier but a more intense approach and that would make it at least worth a watch.

I’ll highly advice you to excuse yourself from watching this, there’s nothing impressive out there and the weekend can be put to some better use.

I’m going with a very generous 1/5 for Once Upon a time for Mumbaai Dobara, you might wish to be let this “Once Upon a time…” fable remain there in “once upon a time…”.

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