Luck starts off a good note. The style, action and execution is heavily inspired from Dhoom 2 and Race. Sadly its ends up as an overdose of it. The storyline is good and indeed had the potential to join the league of yet another stylised thriller.
For starters, the "game show/betting" should have been given more screen time for the concept to sink into the audience. Too much time was devoted for Imran Khan's background and too little for a few.
π Imran Khan:: Attempting for a chocolate-hero-to-action-hero makeover too-much-too-fast. Chaacha Chowdhary's inputs required desperately.
π Shruti Haasan:: Lookswise has an uncanny resemblance to Sonali Bendre. In terms of launchpad, Luck is no-doubt a very bad choice in every aspect. Be it too much of skin show or entry into the storyline just before interval. Kamal Hasan's tag/ genes can be too much of weight to bear and it shows. In terms of performance it feels that she is delivering more than warranted. Nonetheless, has a great screen presence.
π Sanjay Dutt:: Sometime ago, he wanted to attempt sequel to Kaante and perhaps the idea has eventually translated into Luck. There are too many similarities as well - for instance the entire assemble in Kaante is orchestrated by Sanjay Dutt. Anyways, in Luck there was no meat to his character.
π Chitraashi:: The character got dwarfed amongst the biggies.
π Mithun:: His track was a straight-lift from "Major" Kaante. Koi Shaq?
π Ravi Kishen:: Desperate attempt to copy Anthony Hopkins, albeit failed one.
π Danny:: Passable.
π Rati & Rupa Ganguly hardly had any presence.
Mr. Renzil D'Silva (Rang De Basanti), you were absolute let-down.
Soham, it obvious that you failed to learn "all-that-it-takes" from the master.
PS:: There is no normal sentence in the movie, every character barks "dialogues".
