DOOM-2 to DOOM-3

Well, the cliched title of "DOOM" says it all.
Anyway I was dhoomed the moment I made up my mind to watch this movie.......falling for the trailers and its decent predecessor.

 

Thank God for making Hrithik Roshan the way he is. The only saving grace of the movie. He's the only one who comes out unscathed and manages to weave his own aura on screen. Plus he can act too....what more can one ask for.

Abhishek Bachchan, ACP Jay Dixit.....hardly seen without his retro shirts, the"oh-so-cool stubble" and worn out jeans throughout the movie, for once, is completely overshadowed by Mr.A, as Hrithik Roshan is called in the film. Mr.A leaves behind a very funny looking metal "symbol" at every crime scene which he claims to be an 'A' (which hardly looks like one......typography man....can't help it ;)

Aishwarya Rai looks "tempting" up until the moment she opens her mouth. Her dialogues "like" are very very sad and she fails miserably especially in her first encounter with Mr.A struggling to show off attitude and the "golden cool look"....whatever........

Abhishek Bachchan
Sadly, hardly lives up to expectations (poor fans......the girls) and looks almost funny dancing around the perfect Mr.Cool moves...Hrithik. ACP Jay Dixit could have been rendered a lot better I must say. He seems to have lost this one to Hrithik. Abhishek can do a lot better.....I will certainly not forget him in Yuva....awesome.............
Well well, that was the past.........back to DOOM-2

Bipasha Basu
(Shonali/Monali), well, just an add on....again....only eye candy. The "second half version" of Bipasha is the biggest mistake and blooper of Doom-2, I guess.

Uday Chopra......Aali (like Monali calls him)......do I "have to" write about him. Pathetic. If you thought he was funny in Dhoom, forget about him being even 1 percent of that here. Another disaster element.

Is there anything left....oh yeah...he plot, editing, cinematography, music......you can't make a film without all that, can you?....Well they've actually gone ahead and made one!!!
A disconnected plot, very "Hindi movie" looking robberies (Dhoom 1 atleast tried to be slick) Editing is nothing great to write home about. Cinematography, is plain to say the least. Only Rio adds a bit of colour and freshness to the overall setting which cannot actually be credited to the cinematographer. A huge number of frames are spent in slow motion when the characters are shown doing simple things like leaving airports or walking on a street (though Mr.A looks the best in that scene on Marine Drive). All of them have seem to have been given the same set of instructions.........
"Walk 4 steps...now ever so slowly...look towards your right, walk two steps, now turn to the camera....four steps more.......and please loads of attitude......right...." Good shot.

Music....except for the title track, the rest is not even close to hummable. I don't understand why people curse and blame only Himesh Reshammiya.
Action is simply unexciting.

All in all, DHOOM2 tries way too hard to pass off as this cool flick with lots of attitude and slick stuff. The characters look stale and the plot is very loose that hardly generates any excitiement or build-up to the climax.

DOOM 3 on its way....any takers??