By Vijitha Valsalan, April 9, 2008 - 18:48 IST 2 of 3 people found this review helpful
Watched the movie on the date of release itself, lest somebody broke the suspense to me.
After watching the movie I felt that it would be difficult to break the 'suspense'... not because it's a difficult one; just because there are too many! And that's exactly where RACE loses out. There are way too many twists...so much so that the audience becomes non-responsive or tends to predict it in advance.
Performances-
Saif...is great;
Akshay...the same ol' stuff...tweaking his eyebrows... blah blah blah;
Bips...Well, nothin out of the ordinary;
Katrina...Again, nothin great (maybe her dancing was better than her previous movies...can say that about her acting, though);
Anil Kapoor...Totally wasted;
Sameera...Was she really necessary??? Some sorta 'arm-trophy' for the fruit-obsessed cop (who's more interested in enlarging his pocket than nabbing the crook!).
Music-
Pretty average and none of the songs are really picturized well...disappointed. 'Zara Zara' being the only one I kinda liked when it came to picturization (and no, not because of some "steamy scenes"...btw, were they really steamy?? lol).
'Pehli nazar mein' will sure have some admirers. :-)
What I liked about the movie:
Hmmmmmmmmm....I really can't say! :-O
What I didn't like about the movie:
Everything, maybe except Saif...
And the 'intro' bit in the beginning was too much. Here we have a 'suspense thriller' beginning with a narration...almost like a story being told to lil' children. C'mon! Don't such movies have to unravel as they go along ? Why do we need a "character-sketch" right at the beginning ?!?!
