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Don 2 (2011)
lack of originality restraints it from being a great film.....
High speed car chases, twist and turns in the plot and some cheesy bits of dialogue are prominent in don2 . but does it have anything new to offer. Well, not quite.
Farhan Akhtar takes the director's seat once again following up on the 2006 blockbuster - DON. Shah Rukh Khan stars once again as the cunning and charismatic criminal while Priyanka Chopra, Boman Irani also reprise their respective roles from the previous films . it also stars Kunaal Kapoor, Om Puri and Lara Dutta.
The story starts 10 years after the events of the previous film. Don has now conquered the Asian underworld now aims on Europe. Don 2 suffers from lazy writing and mediocre editing. In starting half an hour, the story moves from one country to another so rapidly that it seems the director just wants to show off the different locations they have been shooting in and the film fails to maintain a steady pace.
The plot itself feels too derivative from Hollywood blockbusters like Mission Impossible, Oceans 11 and Prison Break. While the action is good,it has little new to offer and fails to create an edge of the seat, nail-biting experience . the twists in the plot are predictable and lack the shock value we saw in the climax of the previous film.
Shah Rukh Khan Is great once again as don. He's stylish and bad-ass in his looks and act. He enjoys playing this role and it shows in the film. He's the one that adds a spark to the movie.Apart from him, the other actors fail to create an impact.Kunaal Kapoor is average. Priyanka Chopra has little to do in the movie, while Lara Dutta has absolutely nothing to do in the movie. She hardly has 2-3 lines in the entire movie and neither does she play a role in the heist.
But the disappointment of the movie is Farhan Akhtar, who, in the past has given incredible pieces of cinema like Dil Chahta Hai and Lakshya. The direction is average which is not expected from him. While he does put an effort to make a slick, stylish action thriller, it just doesn't prove to be enough.
Overall Don 2 is a movie that could be much more but is let down by its script. I am giving 2 and a half stars to DON 2. Watch it if you can't get the tickets for MI:4!