Dhoom 3- Movie Review

  Producer: Aditya Chopra
  Story & Director: Vijay Krishna Acharya
  Cast: Aamir Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Katrina Kaif, Jackie Shroff,  Uday Chopra
  Music Director: Pritam Chakraborty 
  Genre: Action, Adventure
  Release date: Dec 20, 2014
  Rating: ***.5
  Review: Birjis Adeni Rashed
  Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeF_b8EQcK0

(The aim and intention of my reviews is to critique and recommend while not revealing the whole story to enjoy the movie when seen. But minor details have been divulged for a proper review!)

Check out  Dhoom#2 Review - http://bollywoodfilmcritic.blogspot.com/2006/12/dhoom-2-its-like-exciting-but-not.html

Dhoom 3 is entertaining with stunts, races, acrobatics, gadgets, gizmos and Aamir Khan. But with more emotional, melodrama, and revenge masala, than the previous Dhoom series movies.

Dhoom-# 3 is the revenge story of a child who grows up to avenge the banker who ruined and closed his father’s dream circus by systematically robbing all the branches of the Chicago bank to ‘close it down’! This unrealistic plot to start with is set in the wrong time and place.   In 1980s Chicago, USA, banks were not owned by single bankers like the  1930’s and banks don’t close down if they are going down, historically the federal reserve and the government bail out the banks in USA!

But the magnetism of Dhoom is not its irrational story but the action. The movie, like all the Dhoom movies is about amazing hi-flying stunts, hi-tech robberies, and impossible heists and more. Dhoom3  has  vrooming on the bikes like ‘Fast and Furious’,  aerial  outlandish acrobatics and  high rise and underwater stunts like ‘Mission Impossible’ with  ‘Bond’ like gadgetry transformations.  In addition to this is charismatic Aamir Khan biceped, brainy and brawny with the eye-candy babe presence of Katrina Kaif which is drawing crowds to the theatre!

 When the Indian cops Abhishek Bachchan and Uday Chopra are summoned up to America to solve a bank robbery just because the thief  signs off every robbery with  a saying in Hindi with a clown mask, you think  hey they could have asked the Desi’s who know Hindi in America, to translate ;)
The Indian cops silly Auto rickshaw races and gravity defying flying stunts in India  juxtaposed with  Aamirs  extraordinary stunts and  racing  machinery in Chicago with its contradiction is quite amusing mish-mash.  But the interesting link is the motorcycles used for racing both in US and India were all BMW. Good advertising revenue from there I guess;)

The story obviously is man centric with Katrina Kaif injected only for sizzling eye-candy for song to song intervals. And  surprisingly not a lot of women in the cast!

Dhoom3’s  extra long narrative and dragged  scenes which need serious editing elaborates the motives and reasoning of  Aamirs bank robberies and heists unlike previous Dhooms!  The circus with sentimental melodrama is very much like ‘Now You See Me’ and the secret plot twist is an apparent inspiration from  ‘The Prestige’.

But lastly I would have liked a different ending!

Aamir with his acting caliber, smart brains, pumped up  brawn, charm,  amazing stunts and sleek artistry steals the show. Though in the tap dancing scene his shortness was vastly emphasized.
Katrina Kaif shows of her fit and sexy stunning presence in the beautifully picturized songs, but doesn’t have much other role besides some romance in a subplot.

Abishesk Bachchan is good but his role of a tough cop is not strong enough to parallel the anti hero Aamir in this movie.  Uday Chopra as the side kick is less funnier than the  previous Dhooms.

The cinematography in Dhoom was excellent, capturing the downtown Chicago well. ‘The Great Indian Circus building is btw- The Shedd Aquarium.

The Music, and choreography of all  the songs are  quite good.   Kamli, Malang,  Dhoom Machale  and Tu hi Junoon are all melodious. Lyrics of a few are clichéd. The poem  Bande Hum Uske is good.

Dhoom #3 is entertaining but don’t ask questions. A lot of whys, ifs and buts are sparked while watching this Dhoom too like previous ones. But the people who are raving are the ones responsible for this action adventure to gross Rs.501.35 crore ($83.56 million) worldwide in just 3 weeks!
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