2 out of 5
Such a big title, following a successful prequel, building tall hopes and fizzling out in the end. What could have been a dialogue driven gangster movie, fails terribly in second half.
Sequels to popular movies make business sense , so that you can build on the existing brand name. But following up with a good movie is the most important job. Unfortunately Milan Luthria fails to live up to his own previous works.
Emraan Hashmi is replaced by Akshay Kumar as the dreaded gangster Shoaib who lives in Dubai and controls Mumbai. Imraan Khan becomes his trusted henchman, Aslam. Both fall in love with Sonakshi Sinha, Jasmine. A love triangle set in the 1980's underworld.
The USP of the first installment was the politics set in the underworld with love story running in the backdrop. While here, love story is given prominence over the underworld politics, and this is where this film fails.
The first half is engrossing with hard core mass dialogues , the power game in the underworld, hide and seek with the Mumbai police and some light & short moments with Sonakshi.
The second half takes a complete U-turn and focus turns only to the love triangle.
Akshay Kumar acts well and has the best of the lines in the movies , which he delivers well to garner lots of applause. But could not emulate the intensity and ease of Ajay Devgan & Emraan Hashmi respectively.
Imraan Khan is totally miscast as an 80's gangster. He is too polished and too modern to play this role. Sonakshi Sinha is a decent actress but it is continuously baffling to see an overweight actress getting plum projects.
Pritam is unable to repeat the magic of the prequel with only Ye Tune Kya Kiya being hummable.
Rajat Arora goes haywire in his writing in the second half but he is in full form with his dialogue writing. Brilliant one liners are constantly served, which Akshay Kumar delivers perfectly but sadly Imraan Khan fails in it.
Milan Luthria is a good director attempting different stories, but this time it looks business aspects empowered his story telling. He is better off doing stand alone films than just repeating himself in sequels.
The rest of the cast acts well, and its heartening to see Sonali Bendre acting skills finally coming of age.
Such a big title, following a successful prequel, building tall hopes and fizzling out in the end. What could have been a dialogue driven gangster movie, fails terribly in second half.
Sequels to popular movies make business sense , so that you can build on the existing brand name. But following up with a good movie is the most important job. Unfortunately Milan Luthria fails to live up to his own previous works.
Emraan Hashmi is replaced by Akshay Kumar as the dreaded gangster Shoaib who lives in Dubai and controls Mumbai. Imraan Khan becomes his trusted henchman, Aslam. Both fall in love with Sonakshi Sinha, Jasmine. A love triangle set in the 1980's underworld.
The USP of the first installment was the politics set in the underworld with love story running in the backdrop. While here, love story is given prominence over the underworld politics, and this is where this film fails.
The first half is engrossing with hard core mass dialogues , the power game in the underworld, hide and seek with the Mumbai police and some light & short moments with Sonakshi.
The second half takes a complete U-turn and focus turns only to the love triangle.
Akshay Kumar acts well and has the best of the lines in the movies , which he delivers well to garner lots of applause. But could not emulate the intensity and ease of Ajay Devgan & Emraan Hashmi respectively.
Imraan Khan is totally miscast as an 80's gangster. He is too polished and too modern to play this role. Sonakshi Sinha is a decent actress but it is continuously baffling to see an overweight actress getting plum projects.
Pritam is unable to repeat the magic of the prequel with only Ye Tune Kya Kiya being hummable.
Rajat Arora goes haywire in his writing in the second half but he is in full form with his dialogue writing. Brilliant one liners are constantly served, which Akshay Kumar delivers perfectly but sadly Imraan Khan fails in it.
Milan Luthria is a good director attempting different stories, but this time it looks business aspects empowered his story telling. He is better off doing stand alone films than just repeating himself in sequels.
The rest of the cast acts well, and its heartening to see Sonali Bendre acting skills finally coming of age.