Race 2
First Sequel of the year and tickets being sold in black outside the mother of multiplex theatre “Gaiety, Galaxy” raised my expectation with Race 2.  The Race between Smart vs. Super smart, Bad vs. Worst and Hot vs. Sizzling, and the finale race between the audience and the director duo. Who Wins the race and what is the race about is the question??? Race 2 is about the balding hero Ranveer Singh’s  (Saif ali Khan) set to take Revenge  “Badlaa Jitna Purana Hota hai, Unta khatarnak hota hai” of the past  from the beefed up  protein villain Armaan Malik’s (John Abraham) “Race mai Dodega bhi wo hi , jeete gab hi wo hi, Bus finish line ke paar mai sab cheen lunga ” . Ranveer’s reason for revenge against Armaan is only known to him, Armaan Malik once a street fighter is a Multi-Zillionaire with the help of his Step Sister Ileana Malik (Deepika Padukone) who owns 50% of Armaan Malik empire. A pretty pickpocket   Omisiaa (Jacqueline Fernandez)   is Armaan’s love interest whose interest and intention are unknown  , but in this Race Armaan is the one who sets the table and knows ever card and wins every game . Ranveer’s race is against such a player, whom Ranveer has never faced before and to win this race Ranveer takes help from fruitful old friend R D (Anil Kapoor) and horny yet innocent his new assistant Cherry (Amisha Patel), but this time R D is fermenting poisonous juice for Ranveer,   With So many speed breaker in the race for, it going to be a hell bumpy finish or not?? The Story only holds on until the interval , later the suspense starts to fizz,  this is because of predictable screenplay pattern of director duo , Ranveer Singh played by Saif Ali Khan continued his acting style from earlier Race, not much is  added regarding the acting only the add-on was the Kareena tattoo on his left arm , Armaan Mailk played by John Abraham require no special mention , Deepika as Ileana Malik is not given much screen importance , Jacqueline as Omisiaa is just  to add glamour  as she has no scope both in story and acting. RD played by Anil Kapoor adds humour with his funny fruit-liner’s and Cherry played by Amisha Patel is saving act for her drowning Bollywood career. Abbas Mastan Duo has definitely made master piece in past, but their repetitive pattern of twist has turned the audience wise, so the Duo need to make more smatter movies.  Technically this movie was supposed to be   edgier than the 1^st instalment which it did in few of the action scene but fails in the minute detail like “Kareena” inscription on Saif Ali Khan arm which doesn’t justify for the Character Ranveer as his love interest in the previous part was Soniya, and to add to list and out of focus scene in such a multi-core film which is a big let-down in the Cinematography Dept. Art Direction and Editing have done fairly good. Music by Pritam is upto the beat, but they only break the moment of the film. Without the songs the film would have been a bit racier.
In short
“Not at all a photo Finish race”

* ½  /5