The movie Race has been a hit in India and all over the world. I can see why. It has a pricey budget, explosions, quasi-English songs, hot cars, hot women, and hot guys. It oozes masala movie material. Is the movie good?
Let’s find out. First I am going to break down the movie by categories, which I can remember at the top of my head.
Plot: Good enough. There are a lot of plot twists in this movie and I mean LOTS. They occur so frequent and so on methodically that you can time them, just like I can time every time Shah Rukh Kahn will do something annoying in his movie. This causes a negative impact for the movie. Why? Well you know there is a plot twist due soon so you can take nothing on face value and you just stop being surprised, simply because you expected this eventually.
Other than that, the story moves along nicely. There’s no thinking involved, no deep pondering. Of course with a plot as convoluted as this movie’s there’s bound to be nagging plot holes but I can’t discuss them without giving anything away. However, there are still few key points which are surprisingly...well surprising.
Acting: This is one part o the movie where I have no real complaints. All the actors in this movie I actually like. Saif Ali Khan is the man and he is looking extremely buff and stoic in this movie. I swear this gets younger as he ages. I was worried since Saif is known for primarily doing comedic roles but he kicked copious amounts of ass as a serious guy. Akshay Khanna was also good and so was Bipasha Basu.
Anil Kapoor was an interesting character in this movie. I couldn’t make up my mind whether I disliked his annoying fruit eating ways or whether he was funny. He teetered on the edge of cool and douchebag.
Music: Annoying. Really, incredibly, annoying. This movie is one of the few where it really needs no songs at all but they are simply there for the sake of music sales. I mean the songs are so misplaced that they completely break the flow of movie at times.
The music itself is ear grating…which means it must be the hottest selling record in India right now. The music is a mix of Hindi and lame English rap made famous by this South Indian artist (he also produced the soundtrack). When will Indians stop rapping? We have great classical music to our name, do we really need to add hip-hop to our repertoire! I call for a boycott of all Indian songs with embarrassing R&B styled verses.
Cinematography: This film is hot in South Africa and the locales are beautiful. The city and beach shots are also beautiful.
Final Verdict:
Overall the movie is decent. Nothing you’ll be left thinking about. There is no socio-political issues discussed, no moral message. It does best what it was made to do; mindlessly entertain. Go see it and have a good time and kill a few hours. It was long, ass numbingly long but you don’t feel the time drag…because it’s a race…get it, race…haha…ah go to hell.
I give the movie 3 out of 5 Mogambos.
Let’s find out. First I am going to break down the movie by categories, which I can remember at the top of my head.
Plot: Good enough. There are a lot of plot twists in this movie and I mean LOTS. They occur so frequent and so on methodically that you can time them, just like I can time every time Shah Rukh Kahn will do something annoying in his movie. This causes a negative impact for the movie. Why? Well you know there is a plot twist due soon so you can take nothing on face value and you just stop being surprised, simply because you expected this eventually.
Other than that, the story moves along nicely. There’s no thinking involved, no deep pondering. Of course with a plot as convoluted as this movie’s there’s bound to be nagging plot holes but I can’t discuss them without giving anything away. However, there are still few key points which are surprisingly...well surprising.
Acting: This is one part o the movie where I have no real complaints. All the actors in this movie I actually like. Saif Ali Khan is the man and he is looking extremely buff and stoic in this movie. I swear this gets younger as he ages. I was worried since Saif is known for primarily doing comedic roles but he kicked copious amounts of ass as a serious guy. Akshay Khanna was also good and so was Bipasha Basu.
Anil Kapoor was an interesting character in this movie. I couldn’t make up my mind whether I disliked his annoying fruit eating ways or whether he was funny. He teetered on the edge of cool and douchebag.
Music: Annoying. Really, incredibly, annoying. This movie is one of the few where it really needs no songs at all but they are simply there for the sake of music sales. I mean the songs are so misplaced that they completely break the flow of movie at times.
The music itself is ear grating…which means it must be the hottest selling record in India right now. The music is a mix of Hindi and lame English rap made famous by this South Indian artist (he also produced the soundtrack). When will Indians stop rapping? We have great classical music to our name, do we really need to add hip-hop to our repertoire! I call for a boycott of all Indian songs with embarrassing R&B styled verses.
Cinematography: This film is hot in South Africa and the locales are beautiful. The city and beach shots are also beautiful.
Final Verdict:
Overall the movie is decent. Nothing you’ll be left thinking about. There is no socio-political issues discussed, no moral message. It does best what it was made to do; mindlessly entertain. Go see it and have a good time and kill a few hours. It was long, ass numbingly long but you don’t feel the time drag…because it’s a race…get it, race…haha…ah go to hell.
I give the movie 3 out of 5 Mogambos.
1 comment:
Shahrukh Khan isn't even IN this movie you idiot and yet you are criticizing him for his appearance in a movie he isn't even in?
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