LUCK REVIEWS

Director: Soham Shah
Cast: Mithun Chakraborty, Danny Denzongpa, Sanjay Dutt, Imran Khan, Shruti Haasan and Chitrashi Rawat
Release Date: 2009-07-24 08:00:00
Quick Take: Dont test your luck with this movie


BLINDFOLDED MEN pushing their luck running across tracks with the trains criss-crossing them is a heart-stopping beginning to an action movie. A determined but lucky Sanjay Dutt is the only survivor. Allan Amin is luckily the action director and he deserves kudos for this fantastic sequence. Action is then interrupted by an annoying voice explaining how luck is being put to the test and millions of dollars are being placed as bets. Sanjay Dutt plays lucky Moosa bhai who sends scout Danny Denzongpa (his tan is so fake, such bad make-up, it changes with every scene) to net lucky men and women to pit them against one another in a game of task-until death. A lucky copy of The Running Man or Intacto or The Condemned? Or plain ole TV show Fear Factor with a fight-to-the-finish clause thrown in? All three, because you are not so lucky as an audience.

A bunch of sundry odd characters are found (their eccentricities so forced, you are lucky to not puke): a fearless major from the army (Mithun Chakraborty), a lame camel racing shorty (Chitrashi Rawat with a lisp), Ayesha (Shruti Haasan a truly unlucky debut), Ravi Kissen (best actor of the sorry lot!) and Imran Khan (he tries so hard to look like action man, he ends up looking as though he‘s waiting for Minissha Lamba to come and Kidnap him from the situation). These lucky few are pitted with other random strangers in ‘tasks’ (very Big Brother show like). You don‘t need luck nor brains to figure out which of the chosen lucky ones are going to die falling off airplanes, eaten by sharks or by gunshots. Soham Shah is lucky the movie Four Rooms has been made, the flick-the-lighter scene can be lifted off easily and rejigged to show a gun being pointed at Danny‘s head instead of fingers being chopped off.

In the final fight, Samurai swords magically appear in the hero‘s hand and he is lucky to discover that his heart is located to his right side and the heroine is rescued from a super lucky speeding train that ploughs through petrol tanks and mines. The chemistry between the hero and heroine is damper than unlucky fireworks in the monsoon. Only Ravi Kissen seems to belong in this test your badass luck flick, and he shines! All other good-luck mascots have a usual conscience and do-gooder backgrounds. To top this golden pile of unlucky poo, the word ‘luck' appears painfully in every single dialogue in the movie (as in this review!).