Well after sitting through the first 10 mins of the film I just had one thought in my mind... when would I come to Cineworld for a GOOD movie? My previous movie at Cineworld was Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna and since Cineworld is quite far away from my place I don't go there often.
I knew that the movie would be crap and it would mean £8 down the drain (ticket + popcorn), still I went to see it. I needed some amusement at the end of a rainy Sunday and a whole bunch of my friends were going.
BUT the main reason I went to see this film was: Isha Koppikar. She is one sexy Marathi Mulgi
For anyone going to see this movie... DO NOT watch the old Don before going to see this one. Just DO NOT compare the new with the old. Otherwise you will spend the entire movie thinking just two things..
how crappy the new one is and why didnt you just go to be early tonight instead of coming to the cinema.
The GOOD THINGS:
Excellent special effects for a Bollywood movie... now they just need a good story and better actors.
Music and dance is good... Especially the song 'Main hoon Don' and the number where both Priyanka and Isha dance together for Singhania.
Seeing Isha dance... in two songs meant my £8 were paid back with interest. It is fasinating to see the flowing symmetry of the female body!
Shooting locations are excellent... I love the last scene on the mountain top. I wonder what place that was.
The BAD THINGS:
Crap storyline... even though it was copied from the original Don, had the story been original I am sure the movie would have come out much better. You just cannot fit a square peg in a round hole.
Kareena... Firstly why was she in the movie... ok no probs you keep her in the movie.. but then WHY make her dance! She could have been given the role of 'bystander no.2' or 'policewoman no.1'. Also it is unfair that they gave her Helens role. Helen was an excellent dancer where as Kareena looks like she is trying to break her spine or dislocate her hip.
REAL weak story... someone should have told the director that when you fire a fake bullet thru a glass, the glass DOES NOT shatter since there is no projectile in a fake bullet. This is with reference to the scene where Priyanka enters the car of Don's henchmen with the fake Police behind her. Then she proceeds to shoot the Policemen by firing THRU the glass window of the car. In a later scene we see Priyanka handing over cash to the fake Policemen and threatening them that if they talk to anyone about this, next time the bullets will be real.
Business class prisoner transport plane... when they were designing a prisoner transport plane the least they could have done was watched Con-Air. But no... they couldn't take even that much effort. In the new Don, the prison plane seats are almost as good (if not better) than business class seats on a passenger plane. All prisoners are FREE TO MOVE ABOUT and there is just a set of bars between the guards and the prisoners. Also all the prisoners still have their personal belonging with them and are wearing their own clothes. The ONLY thing missing from the 'best special effects scene in the movie' was a personal entertainment system in the 'business class' seat of the passengers.
The Parachute Scene '..the best scene..'... copied from Arnie's Eraser right down to the two children playing in the area where the parachutist lands. Of course the scene from Eraser (movie made in 1996) was much better. Guess they couldn't think up any new variations in 10 years time.
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The story is pretty straight forward with a MAJOR twist in the last scene. Everything is set for Don II since the original Don still lives.
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