Glamour unlimited is the only way to describe this movie. Though for me it was more like glamour overload. The sole two enjoyable moments in the movie are the two times when the title song “Dhoom Machale” two plays, once at the beginning of the movie and once at the end of it.
The movie is a collection of physics defying stunts( I am so sure all the great physicists are currently turning in their graves) and hot women with long legs in short skirts. Oh and I almost forgot lots of gadgets and really cool vehicles. I am not so sure what the women were doing in the movie especially Bipasha Basu. I think she was just there so the men could have something to ogle at, because every man likes a woman with a gun and the ability to use it.
The movie is just what one would call pure entertainment, every twist in the movie is predictable. It would have been more enjoyable if they had had less chases, excellent but unrealistic slow motion action sequences, less songs and more detective work. More of trying to get into the thief’s head and figuring out the message being relayed. But that only constitutes less than about 5 minutes of the movie.
Hrithik Roshan plays the super intelligent thief who no one can catch and of course his counterpart is Abhishek Bachhan who is an equally super intelligent cop working for our very own Amchi Mumbai police force. It takes Abhishek just 5 minutes to figure out the pattern that Hrithik follows in stealing the things which are priceless and impossible to steal. Even though there are some questions about how Hrithik manages to dispose off these priceless goodies that he flicks, it somehow gets lost in the glamorous chase which takes the entire cast from India to Brazil. No where in the movie does anyone think about where Hrithik gets the funds to finance the kind of gadgets, face masks, cars, bikes that he uses for stealing these things. If he does get it from his profession how does he manage to dispose off these priceless objects which are apparently renowned in the world. But of course the director and script writer have taken into account the fact that the people watching this movie are super intelligent just like their protagonists and will of course know that Hrithik has a super secret network which does all the selling for him .
And then there is the ever present Uday Chopra who is the only other character apart from Abhishek that made it to Dhoom 2 (there’s the Bengali wife but she’s just around for two minutes even less than she was around in Dhoom). He of course plays the stupid, woman crazy, not really into his job kind of cop to Abhishek’s serious and intelligent persona. He is still in search for his life partner so to say and begins dreaming of a happy family with four kids (I guess that’s his lucky number) anytime anything with a XX chromosome comes within 5 feet of him.
The movie was very similar to the original Dhoom in terms of the basic theme and there was really nothing new added to the story except the new stars. The story just seemed to keep dragging and stretching to a point where I thought this movie will never end. As is usually the case I would take Dhoom any day over Dhoom 2 and John Abraham’s presence in it is just about 10% of the reason.
All in all if you like hot babes, crazy action sequences, some decent dialogue delivery, fast bikes and all the masala that a blockbuster Bollywood movie generates my guess is you will enjoy this movie. But if you are looking for a story and strategies which make sense then you might be better off spending your time and money else where like shoe shopping or you could write a script of your own.
