Oh hi, I am one of the people who happened to witness this movie in the opening first day MORNING show. (ie OCT-16-2009 11:30am) And in a one-liner I say it's an OKAY movie. Nothing much to expect, and nothing much to get.
So , going threw the good side of this movie, TECHNICAL wise it's eye candy, with Hollywood cameramen, Stunt artists, Second Unit directors, underwater photography. YEAH, that's it.
And let's go threw the down sides, the STORY, the total rip-off of Hollywood-MOVIE "Into the Blue (2005)". That movie deals with stylish underwater exploration and an hidden Treasure.
Here story gets BOLLYWOODY, adding family dramas, brother wife husband friend storyline, (with unnecessary song numbers) and an ancient treasure owned by the British.
Story starts with Sagar aka Sethji (Sanjay Dutt) a marine diver settled in the Bahamas. His friend Aarav (Akshay Kumar) is a playboy character, who only cares for big ambitions. But Sagar is a family man married to Mona(Lara Dutta) and have a younger brother Sam (Zayed Khan) who is an underground bike racer in Bangkok. Things went wrong when Sam meet with Nikki(Katrina Kaif) and Gulshan (Rahul Dev).
The MOST Ridiculous things in the movie are the snatched out story elements from well known English movies. Like the First Boxing fight for the character development blandly taken from John Woo's "Broken Arrow". Also the Kylie Minogue club scene inspired from Will Smith's "HITCH".
Not to mention action scenes, most of the stunt sequence taken from well known English movies like "SNATCH" , "FAST FURIOUS" , "Police story SUPER COP" , "TORQUE" , "BAD BOYS 2" and "Into the Blue (2005)" itself. From all that I like the Renny Harlin directed "Driven (2001)" homage, by showing a woman's skirt flew up during the race, huh. Hindi directors are very creative, now!
What were the filmmakers thinking, the audience are dumb. It got nothing new, nothing fresh, even the color correction done by PRIME FOCUS studio for transforming the SKY to look BLUE sucked. Anything stand up in this movie was the GOOD cinematography which captured Bahamas beautifully. And cute LARA DUTTA in stunning SWIM WEARS huh!Apart from that it's usual bollywood masala.
The great miss was Akshay's negative character turned out to be good at last and that sucked.
(Hmm it got Rahman's music? I don't think so! Hey wait it got Rasool Pukkutty the another Acadamy award winner! so what?) I gave this movie 6 out of 10.
So , going threw the good side of this movie, TECHNICAL wise it's eye candy, with Hollywood cameramen, Stunt artists, Second Unit directors, underwater photography. YEAH, that's it.
And let's go threw the down sides, the STORY, the total rip-off of Hollywood-MOVIE "Into the Blue (2005)". That movie deals with stylish underwater exploration and an hidden Treasure.
Here story gets BOLLYWOODY, adding family dramas, brother wife husband friend storyline, (with unnecessary song numbers) and an ancient treasure owned by the British.
Story starts with Sagar aka Sethji (Sanjay Dutt) a marine diver settled in the Bahamas. His friend Aarav (Akshay Kumar) is a playboy character, who only cares for big ambitions. But Sagar is a family man married to Mona(Lara Dutta) and have a younger brother Sam (Zayed Khan) who is an underground bike racer in Bangkok. Things went wrong when Sam meet with Nikki(Katrina Kaif) and Gulshan (Rahul Dev).
The MOST Ridiculous things in the movie are the snatched out story elements from well known English movies. Like the First Boxing fight for the character development blandly taken from John Woo's "Broken Arrow". Also the Kylie Minogue club scene inspired from Will Smith's "HITCH".
Not to mention action scenes, most of the stunt sequence taken from well known English movies like "SNATCH" , "FAST FURIOUS" , "Police story SUPER COP" , "TORQUE" , "BAD BOYS 2" and "Into the Blue (2005)" itself. From all that I like the Renny Harlin directed "Driven (2001)" homage, by showing a woman's skirt flew up during the race, huh. Hindi directors are very creative, now!
What were the filmmakers thinking, the audience are dumb. It got nothing new, nothing fresh, even the color correction done by PRIME FOCUS studio for transforming the SKY to look BLUE sucked. Anything stand up in this movie was the GOOD cinematography which captured Bahamas beautifully. And cute LARA DUTTA in stunning SWIM WEARS huh!Apart from that it's usual bollywood masala.
The great miss was Akshay's negative character turned out to be good at last and that sucked.
(Hmm it got Rahman's music? I don't think so! Hey wait it got Rasool Pukkutty the another Acadamy award winner! so what?) I gave this movie 6 out of 10.