Movie Review: Race

I still don’t understand why this movie is called Race. Sure, there’s horse racing in it, but it’s not much. In fact, that whole angle disappears about half an hour into the movie. Nobody’s racing in cars, on bikes, nothing. Hell, Tara Rum Pum should have been named Race, not this. If it’s supposed to go with that line in the movie, something about winning at the race of life, then that’s just corny.

But moving on, about the movie. Where to begin? And where to go from there? It seems the director/script writer had the same thought, because this movie starts in one direction, goes somewhere else from there, and as if that wasn’t enough, it takes about two or three more turns after that. My head was spinning as I neared the end, hoping that I wouldn’t be taken in another totally opposite direction.

Hellloooo Saifu.

There are a few good things about Race. One being him. Saif’s hotness really helps the movie, because when things get boring, I can just stare at him.

The movie had potential. It’s a good murder mystery, and it has good twists. But it has too many of them. They needed to pick one or two, and go from there. After a while, it just gets annoying, and you get everything jumbled in your head.

The songs are all ridiculous. Pehli Nazar is wasted, Race Saanson Ki has too much skin, as do the rest of the songs. And the choreography? Who let Saif dance? Please realize that he can’t. Even the ladies couldn’t get it together. When the people you’re working with cannot dance, you don’t let them. You make up something incredibly simple, or you figure something else out.

Akshaye, trying to look all intimidating.

‘What about the performances?’ you ask? Well, in a movie like this, they’re usually bad. And this movie does not fail to deliver on that. Even seasoned actors like Saif and Akshaye seem to mail their performances in. They look completely uninterested. Don’t even ask about the girls. Bipasha sounds monotone throughout every single dialogue, Sameera’s character was completely dumbed down, so she didn’t have much to do, and Katrina just needs to go away.

Eww. This scene is disturbing.

Anil Kapoor is supposedly the saving grace of this movie. Though it’s quite sad when Anil Kapoor is the saving grace of your film, especially when you already have Saif and Akshaye. He was funny at the beginning, but it was the same thing over and over.

Also, in no world should Akshaye Khanna play Saif Ali Khan’s younger brother. Where’s the logic in that? You have to switch their roles around, or get another actor. It’s ridiculous.

Overall, the movie had potential, but when your head starts spinning from all the twists, you know something’s wrong.

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