Dhoom 3 Review

                                                                                   

Going into this movie I said to myself, “Ok people are going to trash it by comparing its action to 200 million dollar movies of Hollywood. But I won’t because it’s an Indian movie and we can’t spend that much money, now can we!”

But no, the thing that really got into my skin was simple mediocrity of various elements, be it dialogue, screenplay, humor, etc. For a movie of this genre, it had very little humor, not much emotion and pretty far-fetched action sequences.

Plot: A boy who saw his father kill himself because of bank loans grows up to rob that bank and tries to shut it out of business. Two cops are called in from India to tackle this criminal.

As much as it sounds shoddy in these 3 lines, the movie gets shoddier. It has borrowed twists from some great Hollywood movies but couldn’t rent from them the same level of execution.

For a bank heist movie, it never showed bank robbery. Dhoom 2 in that respect didn’t shied away from getting into details and I personally loved to see the technicalities behind the crime. All we were treated was to falling notes.

For a movie to be successful it needs to have strong anti-hero who can stand up to the hero. Here we had a hero (Abhishek Bachchan) who wasn’t even in same galaxy as the villain. I doubt if anyone rooted for our hero. And he was held back by even inferior character of Uday Chopra and the smug look he carried in whole movie as if constipated or something.

Abhishek Bachchan in all new constipated avatar

                                

But then again Dhoom series is about swashbuckling villains and not an honest cop.

For a movie of this genre, there was very little and poor humor. Less said is better about it.

The action and stunts were good, I must admit, but nothing that we haven’t seen before and sometimes just too much to comprehend. The bike could turn into speed-boat and under-water diving machine, I was just hoping that it doesn’t transform itself into helicopter. That would have made Q from James Bond proud and Transformers sick. But then again the bikes in the movie didn’t need rotors to fly over any and everything.

 Exchanging views on new ways to kill a movie

Then there’s Katrina Kaif. She is an epidemic of expressionless-ness. She is solely responsible for this idea in Bollywood that no matter how worse one can get in acting, s/he will be getting roles till they are treat to the eyes. She is one of those actors who can only get worse with time, something like anti-Aamir. I think that she never knows which film is she in. She is equally irritating.

                                                   

Competing with Katrina in terms of killing the movie is Uday Chopra. Dhhom 3 director tried to cut his role as much as possible, but it’s his ability to sour the taste no matter how small tea spoon you put him in. The only realistic aspect about Dhoom movies is the villains’ tendency to kill himself rather than being interrogated by Uday Chopra.

The hero and the villain

Aamir Khan going in to rob a bank and save a movie

Now the good part i.e. Aamir Khan. That actor gets better and better with time. You don’t go into Fast & Furious for acting abilities of Vin Diesel and Rock, but with Dhoom 3 you can be sure that Aamir will gravitate you even when bikes are not flying. I am not his great fan but facts can’t be ignored. At this moment he is the best “actor” of Bollywood. Both, in the role of determined Saahir and differently abled Samar, Aamir just grabs you and     saves you from mediocrity lying around in movie.

John Abraham didn’t have a love story so they brought one for Hrithik. Hrithik didn’t have a back-story so they brought one for Aamir. And these aspects only drag a villain down and dilute his evilness.

                                      

A South Indian guy sitting next to me exclaimed “Ridiculous” during one of the action sequence and that sums it up all. That man has seen Chiranjeevi do wheelie with tractors and somersaults with horses and even he finds this ridiculous. Atleast those south indian movies compensate the ridiculous action by strong original script.

Watch this movie if you don’t care about script, dialogues , screenplay, acting, or anything related to movie making and are a big fan of either Aamir or Katrina/Uday Chopra.

4 /10 - 3 points for Aamir and 1 point for giving Uday and Katrina less reel-time.