Film Review - Players 2012
Director duo Abbas- Mustan known to deliver edge-of-the-seat thrillers each time, have certainly lost their gold touch tin their recent outing players. Despite an ensemble cast, stylish action sequences, awre striking twists in the tale and picturesque locales actress the globe, they couldn’t stand up to the audiences’ expectations. But what makes the move both worth watching (for three long hours at a stretch) is the ‘not-so-unpredictable’ plot hat keeps you hooked on to the screen.
Charlie (Abhishek Bachchan), the master of the game, is CA by day and a voice-modulating, ace conartish by night. Having learnt the tricks of the trade from his guru Victor Dada (Vinod Khanna), it is now his moral duty to make his teacher’s dreams come true, But Victor’s wish of building a world renowned orphanage in India has come with huge price. So Charlie is set out to pull off a heist that involves the Russian and Romanian Governments, along with the Russian mafia in tow. The biggest con job of his life require him to loot a heavily-guarded train, set off from Russia to Romania with gold worth thousand crores. But there is a hitch. He needs players’, smart enough to help him in his ‘job’.
And so a team of players is brought together by Victor, with each one proficient in a specific job, Ronnie (Bobby Deol) is a master illusionist, who was once known for his jaw dropping magic tricks, Sunny (Omi Vaidya) is a prosthetics expert, Bilai (Sikander Kher) is adept in handling explosives and spider aka spidy (Neil Nitin Mukesh) is master hacker, for whom, on computer cod or network is difficult to breach. Along with them is Charlie’s love interest Riya (Bipasha Basu), who casts her speel’ on men, robs them of their precious belongings and vanishes without being traced. These played now have to carry, out the raid of t heir life without getting caught.
They plan for months on end and put is into action. But once the gold-laden train in robbed, one of the players betrays the rest of the team and it is now time to get even with the trailer. And so the game of dog-chase-dog begins.
Abbas-Mustan try hard to put their act straight, but too many half-baked plots make their official remake of the Italian job, a tad too boring. It is made to suit the desi tastes and that is where the move falters. One such example is the train robbery sequence, which looks to childish and Bollywood-ish’. Also, enough Masala and song and dance routine mar the pace of the story. The adrenaline- pumping action scenes and the breath taking locations of Russia, Amsterdam and New Zealand are the saving graces, songs are a letdown but the few unpredictable twists in the story make up for the loss.
Coming to the cast, Abhishek Bachchan is repetitive. His macho roles post- Dhoom have become too monotonous now. (may be he should try his ‘accent’ and attitude’ in a different genre). Bipasha Basu provides the oomph; sikander kher’s talent is left untapped. Omi Vaidya Just was n’t needed in the move and hey… where was Bobby D? Sonam Kapoor overacts. Neil Nitin Mukesh is the only ‘player’ to watch out for. He plays the bespectacled, nerdy character in the first half and them his switch over to a completely different role is worth a mention. Vinod khanna is strictly okay.
The movie only gets interesting just close internal and half an hour post it! In nutshell, players can be best called a ‘Played down’ version of Italian Job. Strictly a one time watch.
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