Race

Race has a lot of pace and obviously more than one race. Clean, glamorous and stylized flick. Considering how challenging it can be to film slick action scenes and not make them look preposterous, Race managed to pass with flying colors ! With lot of flying cars, human beings and plans. The movie is a mesh of plots, theres a plot in a plot in a plot in a plot and wait..another plot in a plot and finally the plot thats got a mini back-up plan ! They just keep booming into your face by the minute. Precisely, the negative of the movie as well. Unexpected and upredictable plots spin your head for a while but when the plans are thrown at you, by bucketsful, they become less exciting and you guessed it...predictable ! The chase (race) is for 200 million dollars to be made in an insurance scam, set in South Africa. Gorgeous lifestyle, designer wear and lots of thorough-bred stallions (horses AND men!). A couple of mal-direction points like punjabi boys having a church wedding (why?! nothing wrong in a church wedding but so out-of-pretext?!), Saif flying down a building like superman to save the damsel in distress (how?! Or else, show that besides money, women and power Saif had some super powers to boot!) You may advocate the scene by saying our desi heroes have been flying around like superheroes since forever - so whats so objectionable in this scene?! Okay go and check out the scene.. the dive is so stupid that you gotta see it to believe me!)Anil Kapoor is the corrupt yet smart cop sniffing around the scam. He has great potential as a comedien.Race gets 6 out of 10 from me.