where: UA EMERY BAY STADIUM 10 in Emeryville, CA
when: Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
show: 7:50 p.m.
costs: $8.00 Ticket + $2.00 small Popcorn ( discounted price on my movie watcher reward card ) + $4.75 small Barq's Root Beer + $0.50 Rascals Candy + $5.00 Carquinez Bridge Toll = $20.25
auditorium: 4
seat: 6th row, 12th column
synopsis/overview: An Asian underworld boss now has his sights on the European underworld. But the European underworld bosses want him dead; and the cops want him arrested.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) A meeting of underworld bosses; 2.) Execution attempt; 3.) Birthday; 4.) "Immunity or nothing"; 5.) Escape plan; 6.) Safe deposit box; 7.) Tape; 8.) Printing plates; 9.) Charity fundraiser; 10.) Video clip; 11.) "No autographs, please"; 12.) Car chase; 13.) Hit man; 14.) "Special talent"; 15.) Double-decker bus; 16.) "Under pressure"; 17.) Plans; 18.) The double-cross; 19.) Security cameras; 20.) Bomb; 21.) Underground vault; 22.) Fingerprints; 23.) "No escape plan"; 24.) "Shocking behavior"; 25.) Package; 26.) "Temporary lapse of judgment"; 27.) "Last request"; 28.) "I want to be a free man"; 29.) "You're welcome"; 30.) "Happy reunion"; 31.) "Immunity papers; 32.) Priceless; 33.) "Don never forgets"; 34.) "Perfect crime"; 35.) "It's not difficult to catch Don"; and 36.) Bollywood song and dance.
audience reaction: There were about 20 people in the audience with me. And they seemed to enjoy this movie.
recommendation: I never saw part one--'didn't even know that there was a part one--so I'm not a member of this movie's fan-base. 'That said, I found this movie to be above average as an Action Movie. Go see this if you're into Action Movies. However, the plot contrivance was a little "stretched" for my taste.
spoiler alert! What is missing from this movie? Oh, I know. This "Don" character is supposedly the Big Boss of the Asian underworld but ... think about it ... China and India, alone, have over a billion people in each one. And we're not even considering the population count of the other Asian countries. What I'm getting at is this: Don ( Shah Rukh Khan ) is the Number One underworld boss in Asia yet ... he goes around without an "army" of sorts--HE HAD TO GO TALK SOME OTHER BAD GUYS INTO JOINING HIS RAG-TAG TEAM!!! I mean, come on, he could not have become Asia's underworld's Top Boss if he didn't have his own formidable "army" to help him run and control things! So, what happened to his "army"? That mystery guy ( Hrithik Roshan ) at the charity fundraiser who danced with the female detective had a funny-looking "pinched" nose: Too narrow! ( I think that he had a "nose job". Hmm, I wonder if he had surgery done on that finger of his, too. ) When the car hit something, the airbags didn't deploy. When Don made his descent by way of a rope, the bad guy could have easily shot him dead because he was moving down in a straight line. Did they really have to kill the security guards? How did the cops know right away that it was a robbery, not a fire emergency? When Don made the comment that the helicopter was "spoiling the mood", Roma, the female detective, should have jumped on that HINT and easily narrowed-down Don's location in the building. Okay, that fingerprint identification machine had a touch pad; meaning, you cannot put a practically weightless sheet of clear plastic on it and expect it to read the fingerprints IF NO PRESSURE IS USED TO ACTIVATE ITS RECOGNITION SOFTWARE! Wouldn't the fingerprint identification machine recognize a security breach if its touch pad was activated WITHOUT ANY HUMAN BODY WEIGHT PRESSURE DETECTED BY ITS SENSORS? You would think that the vault's pressure sensitive floor would be calibrated to accept only the safe-keeper's average weight! Dang! I thought her bullet-proof vest spelled-out the word, SEX ( Because I was gonna say, Pick a number, get in line and wait for your "F" turn! LOL ), it didn't; SEK is the German acronym for, SpezialEinsatzKommando, the German equivalent of the American SWAT. Since Don knew how those bombs were put together, why did not the SEK force just let him deactivate all of them? That bad guy sure had no peripheral vision for Don to be able to jump him from the side like that! I said this more than once before: In a kill-or-be-killed fight, you fight dirty to survive and to end it as quickly as possible because, in such a situation, time will be a luxury that you won't be able to afford. She was shot in the liver, for Chrissake! Gunshot wounds to the Liver are almost always fatal. She needed medical attention right away to stop the profuse bleeding and to stabilize her and QUICKLY SPEED HER OFF TO THE HOSPITAL INSTEAD OF HIM CARRYING HER OUT--AT SUCH A LEISURELY PACE--TO A WAITING AMBULANCE BECAUSE, IN REALITY, SHE WOULD HAVE ALREADY BLED TO DEATH BY THAT POINT IN TIME! Duh! What good will his "immunity papers" do him if the other underworld bosses are still around and are still Hell-bent on killing him? The dialogue could have used some polish since it didn't translate well into English in the subtitle.
fyi: If you like your girls extra hot and spicy, this movie serves-up two delectable dishes in the form of Priyanka Chopra ( as Roma ) and Lara Dutta ( as Ayesha ).
Wow, that is one nice-looking prison! I wouldn't mind being incarcerated there. I just hope that they use liquid soap because a prison shower room floor is not where I'd want to pick-up a dropped bar of soap! Iykwim ( If you know what I mean )! Ha, ha, ha.
word of advice: Bad guys make for strange bedfellows.
tidbits: Earlier today, Tuesday, the 10th of January, 2012, I decided to have something new for breakfast. I had a Christmas peanut butter cup the size of a hamburger patty just sitting around in the kitchen--and I had one hamburger bun left! Hmm, what to do .... I put that peanut butter cup in-between the hamburger bun slices and nuked it in my microwave on High for 30 seconds. I ended-up with one big gooey mess on my microwave's turntable! But there was no way that I was gonna let all of that go to waste. I just picked-up a kitchen spatula and scraped-off all that gooey goodness so that I could eat it all up. Note to myself for next time: I'll just heat-up the hamburger bun in my toaster before putting the giant peanut butter cup in the middle of it--it should work better this way ( I hope ).
Later on in the day, I went to Oakland, CA, to visit Hector and his family--and Tiger, the cat. I haven't seen them in two months' time.
Tiger is slightly over a year old now. But he doesn't look like he's full-grown. His head is getting bigger, though. I hope that he gets bigger because I've had cats that were practically twice his present size. And bigger cats make for cuddlier sleeping companions.
And speaking of Tiger, as I pulled-up to Hector's house, I saw him perched atop a neighbor's SUV. He came into the house with me. And he curled-up in his favorite corner in the dining room. He slept there until after I was done making some Garlic Bread and Spaghetti for everyone. Because as soon as I was done cooking, he walked into the kitchen and, with those half-closed eyes of his, sat there waiting for me to give him some food. And who am I to just shoo him away?
Hector talked with his older sister on the 'phone. She has Alzheimer's Disease now. She thought that her own daughter was her little sister. Then she inquired of Hector how their parents were doing these days. Hector told her that they both have been dead for quite a while now. And she cried because she couldn't remember ever attending the funeral of either one of their parents. It was kind of sad for me to learn about her present condition.
To break the sad mood, I told Hector and his kids that I will take them to see the movie, THREE STOOGES, when it comes out in April because it is based on him and his two brothers, "Moe" and "Larry"--Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck. Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo!
During the movie's intermission, I went out to the hallway and got some Rascals Candy for 50 cents. But would you believe that the vending machine only gave me 6 tiny pieces! WTF?!?!?! That's it, I'm buying all of my candy snacks at the dollar/99 cent store from now on!
After the movie, I swung by my former place of employment at the Rockridge Shopping Center in North Oakland, CA. That huge place is half-empty now. It lost its lease and will close for business on March 10th of this year. Some of my former co-workers were still there. And I wished them all a "Happy New Year"; although, in retrospect, I think that I shouldn't have done so since they will be all without jobs in this bad economy in two months' time. I hope that they will all find employment soon after the store closes for business.
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