This is not nonsense. It's giant nonsense!
At first, there is a scene where Akshay Kumar plays the stuntman of Brandon Routh who's obviously whiter and taller (!) I said to myself this is wrong. But that wasn't the only wrong thing here; it was just the beginning! This movie makes itself so unbelievable to stand. It's bad brainless one; namely not where we say "leave your brain at the door" because even if, it would still unbearable!
The deal is like this: a love story, some comedy, many stunts and international locations. Seems cool. But it's WHOLLY not. The script is strikingly shoddy. After 45 minutes of real silly comedy, hundred coincidences, empty circles, squeezing bore, let alone the sidekick; Vindu Dara Singh, and his wig!--I was about to leave my seat. But lastly, thank God, I found an event with a drama to happen; namely losing the hand watch inside Kumar's belly. After that, it's a romantic comedy that I watched uncountable times before and more entertaining than that. Some points were just embarrassing; the young doc works as a stuntwoman?? Or the whole sequence of Italy?!! Most probably they had a chance to shoot there, so why not to add some useless, so forced, sequence to be shot there!
Speaking about embarrassment, the action scenes were an awful joke. The movie makers did all of their shooting at the Universal Studios tour; so you'll watch, rather re-watch, many locations and stuffs that were used before in famous old movies like (Beverly Hills Cop III - 1994), and (Waterworld - 1995) as they're movies in production. OK, they thought that nobody would ever pay attention. Now be aware of movies that assume the stupidity of its viewers!
I don't think that Sylvester Stallone, who made once his share of bad movies, participated in a nonsense of this size before. The man was there for 2 short scenes, the second of them was complete idiocy, in which he shows suddenly in rough black neighborhood, right when the heroine faces some thugs, to beat them, saying later: "Hey, love is blind" in Indian??!! Definitely he was "out of his neighborhood"! This is how not to utilize a star like him in a cameo. His material would've been more catchy, convincing, and less embarrassing if it was done by Indian star. Otherwise, they should have at least re-written it. He did it for the money, maybe the fun, and surely to promote his movie John Rambo! And don't get me talking about Denise Richards; she can't act as a lead in her original movies, so here she couldn't act as a speck of a cameo either. And her role was better being played by any actress as well. As you see, this movie was die-hard to put on its poster many known American names as much as it could, but they weren't good roles, and it wasn't a good movie!
There is more: the movie uses clips for American stars, maybe recorded from Entertainment Tonight, in the opening credits THEN uses them AGAIN in "the stuntman of the year" sequence! Actually, this is nothing compared to the bigger crime that they committed. They hired some celebrities' look-alikes to be in that party, to watch impersonators of Jack Nicholson and Whoopi Goldberg, not the real people (???). I think the aim was making it more "Hollywood", but what happened was that it made it as the worst "Bollywood". Another top of embarrassment this movie achieves!
I don't like 90 % of the new Indian stars. They lack everything, and most of all the talent. They are pale shadows for the true stars of the Indian classics. I'm not by any chance a fan of Akshay Kumar or Kareena Kapoor. I even can't stand them separately. Especially Kapoor. She's not a pretty dream as what she always had been pictured. She's more like a nightmare for me!
While the comedy is so poor, they compensated that by increasing the nakedness, with sexual gags and cheap filthy dialogue. The thing about the Indian cinema is that it wasn't used to this type of sexy romantic comedies. They made the escapists smartly before, by their own commercial formula. Nowadays, you can notice easily that most of their commercial work became massively Americanized, looking made by pathetic copycats to entertain an Americanized audience. And, sorrowfully, the outcome ends up as tasteless thing that doesn't have the best of both; the American or the Indian cinema. Or in a word; a white raven!
I liked few lines, and the montage of the catastrophes that the aunt caused many times before (nice cinema of which this movie has not). Away from that, this movie oozes silliness. Since he was a kid, Kumar wanted to stand beside Stallone, and he did it, so here's a movie for him to watch, not us! Like one of its forgettable songs' title "Don't want to love", when it comes to (Kambakkht Ishq), I even "can't" love!
Finally a question: Why the post-ending sequence, with the closing credits, is stolen from the post-ending sequence of Will Smith's movie (Hitch - 2005)?? Hmmm, I won't tire myself thinking; since we have a maxim in Arabic that says "Beating the dead is a sin"!
At first, there is a scene where Akshay Kumar plays the stuntman of Brandon Routh who's obviously whiter and taller (!) I said to myself this is wrong. But that wasn't the only wrong thing here; it was just the beginning! This movie makes itself so unbelievable to stand. It's bad brainless one; namely not where we say "leave your brain at the door" because even if, it would still unbearable!
The deal is like this: a love story, some comedy, many stunts and international locations. Seems cool. But it's WHOLLY not. The script is strikingly shoddy. After 45 minutes of real silly comedy, hundred coincidences, empty circles, squeezing bore, let alone the sidekick; Vindu Dara Singh, and his wig!--I was about to leave my seat. But lastly, thank God, I found an event with a drama to happen; namely losing the hand watch inside Kumar's belly. After that, it's a romantic comedy that I watched uncountable times before and more entertaining than that. Some points were just embarrassing; the young doc works as a stuntwoman?? Or the whole sequence of Italy?!! Most probably they had a chance to shoot there, so why not to add some useless, so forced, sequence to be shot there!
Speaking about embarrassment, the action scenes were an awful joke. The movie makers did all of their shooting at the Universal Studios tour; so you'll watch, rather re-watch, many locations and stuffs that were used before in famous old movies like (Beverly Hills Cop III - 1994), and (Waterworld - 1995) as they're movies in production. OK, they thought that nobody would ever pay attention. Now be aware of movies that assume the stupidity of its viewers!
I don't think that Sylvester Stallone, who made once his share of bad movies, participated in a nonsense of this size before. The man was there for 2 short scenes, the second of them was complete idiocy, in which he shows suddenly in rough black neighborhood, right when the heroine faces some thugs, to beat them, saying later: "Hey, love is blind" in Indian??!! Definitely he was "out of his neighborhood"! This is how not to utilize a star like him in a cameo. His material would've been more catchy, convincing, and less embarrassing if it was done by Indian star. Otherwise, they should have at least re-written it. He did it for the money, maybe the fun, and surely to promote his movie John Rambo! And don't get me talking about Denise Richards; she can't act as a lead in her original movies, so here she couldn't act as a speck of a cameo either. And her role was better being played by any actress as well. As you see, this movie was die-hard to put on its poster many known American names as much as it could, but they weren't good roles, and it wasn't a good movie!
There is more: the movie uses clips for American stars, maybe recorded from Entertainment Tonight, in the opening credits THEN uses them AGAIN in "the stuntman of the year" sequence! Actually, this is nothing compared to the bigger crime that they committed. They hired some celebrities' look-alikes to be in that party, to watch impersonators of Jack Nicholson and Whoopi Goldberg, not the real people (???). I think the aim was making it more "Hollywood", but what happened was that it made it as the worst "Bollywood". Another top of embarrassment this movie achieves!
I don't like 90 % of the new Indian stars. They lack everything, and most of all the talent. They are pale shadows for the true stars of the Indian classics. I'm not by any chance a fan of Akshay Kumar or Kareena Kapoor. I even can't stand them separately. Especially Kapoor. She's not a pretty dream as what she always had been pictured. She's more like a nightmare for me!
While the comedy is so poor, they compensated that by increasing the nakedness, with sexual gags and cheap filthy dialogue. The thing about the Indian cinema is that it wasn't used to this type of sexy romantic comedies. They made the escapists smartly before, by their own commercial formula. Nowadays, you can notice easily that most of their commercial work became massively Americanized, looking made by pathetic copycats to entertain an Americanized audience. And, sorrowfully, the outcome ends up as tasteless thing that doesn't have the best of both; the American or the Indian cinema. Or in a word; a white raven!
I liked few lines, and the montage of the catastrophes that the aunt caused many times before (nice cinema of which this movie has not). Away from that, this movie oozes silliness. Since he was a kid, Kumar wanted to stand beside Stallone, and he did it, so here's a movie for him to watch, not us! Like one of its forgettable songs' title "Don't want to love", when it comes to (Kambakkht Ishq), I even "can't" love!
Finally a question: Why the post-ending sequence, with the closing credits, is stolen from the post-ending sequence of Will Smith's movie (Hitch - 2005)?? Hmmm, I won't tire myself thinking; since we have a maxim in Arabic that says "Beating the dead is a sin"!