Don 2: The chase is not that interesting after all

 

 

Don 2:

after the debacle called Ra.one, was doubly cautious to tread the same path. Did it  and came out of the theatre with a average persona rather than the money losing guy who watches Bodyguard or a RA.one!!
The movie was Ok with all its loopholes, could have been tighter at places but may be when don 3 will release We will get to see a real action thriller..

Plot: Now don is back after 5 years and has become Asian Drug lord.Now his eyes are on European grounds. european Cartel bosses combined and planned to kill DOn in Thailand itself.

Stlish fightscene number 1..Don fights europeans cartel goons in thailand backwaters. good action that is but don is way to overconfident or overacts that it irritates a normal hollywood action movie lover.

Cut to Om-Puri(Malik)-Roma(PC) scene where Malik is retiring with one unfulfilled wish..To catch a don..Don make a entry in Headquarters and surrenders himself..!!!..Piggy chops behave with such a attitude like she has caught don red handed..

. Don surrenders before Interpol detectives Malik (Om Puri) and Roma (Priyanka Chopra) in Malaysia and meets Vardhan in prison. He tells Vardhan of his plan to himself escape and also make him escape from jail – and carries out the plan. No great plan. just plain plan which one have seen in numerous movies. why don escapes with vardhan?

 well Vardhan has one key and Don, the other key, of a locker in which is a recorded tape with evidence to blackmail J.K. Diwan (Aly Khan), vice president of Deutsche Zurich Bank in Berlin (Germany). Don shares with Diwan the incriminating footage and in return for not exposing him, asks him for the access codes used to lay hands on the plates necessary to print currency notes in Germany. He plans to smuggle the plates out of the bank, print currency notes and become a billionaire.

Diwan hires Jabbar (Nawab Shah) to kill Don so that he does not have to give him access to the plates but Don not only escapes but also takes Jabbar on his side. He forces Diwan to now give him the access codes, which the latter does. He also uses his own ways to ensure that he and his team can gain entry into the bank and the vault where the plates are kept. He hires the services of Sameer Ali (Kunal Kapoor), an expert computer hacker. Assisted by his girlfriend, Ayesha (Lara Dutta), Vardhan, Jabbar and Sameer Ali, Don hatches the master plot to enter the high-security bank and escape with the plates kept in a highly-guarded safe deposit vault. Everything goes according to plan till Vardhan and Jabbar turn against Don and demand the plates from him with the intention of ditching him. Don has no option but to give them the plates.

Meanwhile, Interpol detectives Malik and Roma have also reached the bank in Berlin to interrogate Diwan as Roma is sure that Diwan has links with Don.

..Meanwhile Jabbar and Bardaan has plates and hostages inside the building and they demands escape route from building..Roma again show such a attitude like she has caught don red handed

Don wants immunity from German police..again reenter building with roma and german forces..Fight scenes...puffy love scene....villains died and injured and don a free man..Watch the movie for last twist

Shahrukh Khan: single handedly took movie on his shoulders..though a tinge of overacting makes uncomfortable..

Piggy chops: neither she is a jungly billi neither she acts good..

Lara dutta/Kunal kapoor: short roles..

Boman: good acting in watever space he gets

Jabbar: a freaky villain

diwan: good acting

Overall..shahrukh is no TOM cruise and Kunal is no simon pegg

The movie is stylish but it blew hot and cold at frequent intervals..

The plan was simple yet stupid...and whole movie based on one plan...Fast five like..yet climax could be made more intriguing..also the difficulties while stealing of plates were far too simple..

Also it would have been better if they could have focussed more on /jimmy coughan and making him one powerful villian..all they show is his arrest at end of the movie

Underworld Awakening: Leaves a lot to desire

 

Underworld Awakening:( disclaimer: not for pattinson and lautner fans:P)..because here Vampires and werewolves are shown like they are best at)

Well to be honest I am fan of this Vampire vs werewolves(Lycans) series. ( no twilight stuff:P). silver bullets, sunlight ultraviolet bullets..Good vampires..Hybrid having the mixture of Vampire and Lycan and loads of stunts,bloods and fast slick action. but sadly the 4th installment of the series leaves a lot to be desire.


The film starts off with a little recap of the previous movies to give the casual viewer a chance to get an idea of the franchise they are stepping in to. the problem is that if you havent seen previous 3 installments you will find it hard to find who exactly is SELENe and micheal..

It seems humans have found out about Vampire’s and Lycans and they aren’t too happy about it. The monsters that are usually the hunters are now pushed to the brink of extinction. Where does that leave the super-vampire hero SELENe and her Were-pire lover Michael? Well no place good and in an attempt to go into hiding they are ambushed.

The stories moves ahead from the finish of 2nd film where selene( leather suit vampire rebel and best fighter and michael( a good hybrid) have been captured after first 10 minutes of the movie shows that humans resort to ethnic cleansing of the two species- Vampires and Lycans. Lycans are extinct and Vampires remains in hiding. Now remember resident evil 3..)alice escape from hospital) and wicked doctor...same thing happens as our heroine celine wakes up from Limbo after 12 years( subject 2)..she was allowed to run after doctor sees she can be useful in tracking down subject1.
the doctors belong to evil corporation called Antigen is working on the final cure to make sure they can never spread their infection again. while

Well she has visions of someone close which she thinks is of michael. She thinks she’s on his trail but it turns out to be a young girl named Eve (India Eisley) who is a lab grown clone of both her and her Michael (Essentially a little girl were-pire.)

enter a good vampire..helps them..and take them to vampire hiding ground near dam..Later lycan attacked the hiding place and triple size lycan defeat Selene and take away eve.
Good fighting here.


Cut to antigen hospital...the doctor is actually the lycan and all the guards too! with the help of sebastian(detective) Selene realises that lycans were never extinct and we came to know that that triple size king kong lycan is doctor son...fight ensures..doctor lycan vs eve...big lycan vs selene...and rest guards vs good vampire...Some fight...michael runs away after his cyro box was broken by selene...so movie ends with another plot for the next series that lycans will now be behind micheal...


what is really bad....I am not fan of 3 hrs senseless cinema...but 88 minutes is too short a time for this film..That is some editing tighter than Beckinsale’s pants and it’s officially the shortest of the series. Every problem the film has could have easily been fixed with another 20 minutes. There was a lot of movie in that short run-time and it didn’t help!

Many of the plots like sebastian story,vampire elder hidden agenda and others were left for 5th series i assume.


Now for what I liked. The action is amazing., I was a little startled by some glass flying at my face. All of the chorography was just fantastic. Selene has never been more of a badass. She is a cold blooded killer that has been pushed to the edge and has no problem taking out anybody in her quest to find Michael and protect her newfound daughter.
There are some awesome kills .eve openig up werewolve head into two with bare hands. It’s funny how refreshing it can be to see a vampire or werewolf actually act like monsters instead of heartthrobs.

I just really wish they had given the movie a chance with a longer runtime.

another sad part is that..first two series villains..victor..lucien...marcus were powerful...here the villain is nothing to be great at..except triple sizeness...and that means no hand to hand combat or swordship..


still watchable if you are this series fan,...if not leaving it is not a bad choice either!

though best film in the series upto now is underworld 2.