Movie review: Race 2- just a blend of glamorous stars

The expectations are always high from an Abbas-Mustan flick as they are best known to offer a suspense thriller drama. The prequel of Race2 had a decent plot in which one could apply one's brains. Here the poblem lies with the sequel, which are mostly fluff, without any stuff making difficult for one to exhaust one's brains. Wanna get entertained? Once again, don't get into logics and statistics as we have been doing for some recent past action masala flicks.Ranveer Singh (Saif Ali Khan) befriends Armaan Malik (John Abraham) and lures him to billions of profit with numerous illegal modes. Elena portrayed by Deepika Padukone is Armaan's sister and the partner in crime, while Jacqueline Fernandez plays his love interest. Ranveer's reason to befriend with Armaan is not just to make money but has a strong motive behind it. What is that? Find it out yourself.The other character from Race brought forward is Robert D'Costa reassessed by Anil Kapoor who is now a refined club owner living a luxurious life with his fruits. While it was Sameera Reddy in the first instalment, it's comeback lady Amisha Patel to accompany Costa as her secretary in the second. It's a race to win, while in reality you lose the race to hold on to your patience on numerous occasions.Like a typical Abbas-Mustan's flick as seen in the last few including Players, Race 2 is never an inch behind in glamour, beautiful babe and not to forget, hot wheels. The beautiful locales of Turkey, sea beaches are beautifully picturised and are mesmerizing.There is a slick treatment of high adrenaline action scenes that could have been rated as one of the best in Bollywood. With thrillers being their forte, and action their main course, Abbas-Mustan do not disappoint in this department. Having said that, we have to mention that there are brainless action sequences and will make you wonder how this could happen.Like a scene where a jet is about to crash but Saif and Deepika comes out breaking down a part of the jet that too with a car. To make it worse the car has multiple parachutes in it.Adding more to the loopholes, it's a race, we are told, on numerous occasions, by the two leading heroes and their two gorgeous sidekicks but what actually they are racing for is never justified. Some of the action sequences are unnecessarily inserted.Abbas Mustan had shown some promise and glimpse of a good plot in ‘Race', but ‘Race 2' is just a lazy sequel of a famed potboiler and it seems they want to cash in on the success of the first instalment.‘Race2' steers away from any such attempts, and instead focuses on good looks and charm mostly.Performance by Saif Ali Khan is good, like he was in Race. The first half of the film belongs to him in every way including looks, style, and dialogue delivery… the entire package.John Abraham's performance is another plus point. He gets plenty of time to flex his muscles and looks well, especially a 5-minute scene when he goes one on one in a steel cage with the undefeated Tyfoon.Anil Kapoor as Robert D'Costa once again with his double-meaning jokes fall flat while his act is good. Deepika Padukone, Ameesha Patel and Jacqueline Fernandez are gorgeous in the movie, but Deepika looks more convincing out of the three. All three ladies look seductive. The camera work by Ravi Yadav like Race is commendable.The music by Pritam is already busting all the charts. It's a delight to watch them out in theatres especially ‘Party on my mind' and ‘Lat lag Gayee'. ‘Allah Duhai Hai' seems unnecessarily inserted, though it is nice to hear. The background score by Salim-Sulaiman is OK.Put down with a bad script, I'll go with 2.5 stars for this action drama which has nothing new to offer except a cast of half a dozen of glamorous stars. Just give a try as it's a Republic Day weekend or else wait for the next big flick to hit the theatres.One more question. In credits the father-son duo Rishi and Ranbir Kapoor are given a vote of thanks but where the heck is their part in the flick. Keep guessing and tell me if you get to know.