gauravjain

Should have known better.

Race is this really slick, polished film shot entirely in South Africa, its the kind of film Feroz Khan used to make just not as good. The story is a convoluted mix of Very Bad Things, The Heist & Goodbye Lover. There is a twist a minute and you dont know who is doing who and why, however everything unfolds pretty much in chronological order and the surprises come in your face without any build up.

The film opens and there is no real establishment of who, what, where, why instead you get thrown into things with a crash and things go from there. Sort of reminds me of Lawrence of Arabia but thats where the similarity ends. The Mustan brothers, even the both of them are not a patch on David Lean.

Anyway, the film isnt all that bad, its reasonably well shot, slightly stylish and Anil Kapoor is sort of funny and the free tickets make it barely tolerable. My problem is just with the number of cinematic mistakes the opening has a bunch of helicopter shots supposedly following a blue car but sometimes its just random aerials, then a shaky zoom in. Amateurish. Later in a supposedly major stunt the camera keeps losing focus and the editing is choppy.

Overall, despite the slickness, there are plenty of portions which are sloppy. Could have very easily been a much much better film, with just a little bit more finesse and effort.

But then, that is our bane….

Avoid, unless desperate

EDIT

SPOILER ALERT

I didnt want to do this but i couldnt stop myself. So here goes

- The plot revolves around $100million double indemnity insurance scam. Saif is killed by Akshaye Khanna for the money and then gives a cut as a bribe to Anil Kapoor (25mil)

- The funny thing here is that Akshaye ends up getting killed in an accident while racing with Saif so Saif goes on to collect $100million.

- Of course it seems the retards forgo tthat they have a dead man collecting another dead mans insurance but since one of them is alive they get only ONE payout.

- Compared to the above this one is just a minor league error. Saif collects 200million but Akshaye already gave Anil Kapoor 25 million so he is left with only 175mil.

But hey its cool. Sort of reminded my why i dont go watch most of the hindi pot boilers. Its not that they cant, its just that they dont care.