RACE - Movie Review

As a kid, if you have lived in major metros in India you definitely must have experienced waiting along with other vehicles in front of railway crossing. While waiting, usually you would have played the train guessing game (either by yourself or with another friend or brother/sister if you are travelling with them). The game is to predict from which side the train would come and pass. You play this for a couple of times while waiting and after a while you wonder why you are waiting so long and you start to get frustrated about everything that happens around you like waiting, other vehicle noise etc. and the whole game becomes a huge irritation. Race is a movie that starts of well with enough promise and twist in the first half. The later half has too may twists to the original twist and you end up as a person waiting just too long in the railway crossing.

Saif Khan looks like a matured actor, Anil Kapoor looks like an old actor and Akshay Khanna looks old with no maturity and acting. Bipasha and Katrina switch between sides and at one point you get so confused that you begin to wonder who is with who. Sameera Reddy comes as a dumb assistant to Anil and she does justice to her role:-) Of course, all the three heroines have item numbers.

Technical aspects of almost all the recent movies are always good and this movie is no exception.

Inspite of all the sloppiness with the screenplay and never ending climax (in fact climax starts from second half) and lack of logic (South African police's absence, Saif joining one of the heroine in the end etc), I would still like to give some credit to the directors Abbas Mastan for their effort to come up with a different thriller movie.

The movie is actually watchable for most part if you start with no expectation.