Dhoom 2: The movie without a story

Dhoom 2

On my Heart Attack <---> Coma review scale (Heart Attack = 10 and Coma = 0) I would rate Dhoom 2 as a: Faint (3 out of 10).

Once again, just like in Don, this movie proves that Bollywood has learnt (though not mastered) the art of special effects and stunt sequences (or atleast learnt to hire the right people from outside India!).
This movie ALSO proves another important point: special effects alone do not make a movie a pleasure to watch. If in Don they copied the story, in Dhoom 2 they thought let s pick up scraps of a story from any Hollywood movie (in this case Entrapment) and stitch them together to fool the public into believing that this movie HAS a story! Come on guys we KNOW you can do good special effects... now just prove to us that you can come up with a story to support it too! Stunt sequences without a story to back them up feels like your watching basketball being played with a football!

Dhoom2 for me was a combination of:
1) A hip-hop video
2) Some glitzy special effects
3) Some cool desi-comedy sequences

The Good stuff:
Locations are as usual excellent and Uday Chopra played his role well.
The special effects are good.
Bipasha as Shonali.
Hritik Roshan's dancing and overall screen presence.
The choreography is good (especially in 'Crazy kia re'.
The extra babes are SEXY especially the ones wanting their beachball back ;)

The Bad stuff:
Aishwarya as a 'cool and normal girl'. She just is not able to pull it off! Even her accent is weird! Bad casting or bad role I am yet to decide.
Bipasha as Monali, a weird weird role!
The story (just doesn't add up!).
The music is just not as good as Dhoom. All the songs seem similar.
Hritik Roshan trying to give the 'Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean' look.

In closing I will just say this... Dhoom 2 is the ONLY movie till date where after watching the first 15 minutes, I was READY to switch screens (we had gone to a multi-plex). Just that the movie (Borat) I wanted to switch to with my friend had already started!