Christmas is the time when the
whole of EUROPE goes quiet. Everyone visits their families and for two days the
whole EUROPE becomes solace to peace seeking lot. This also prompted me to visit my set of
cousins who live near the GERMAN border which somehow is the part of
NETHERLANDS. After two hours long drive
when I reached my cousins place I was entertained with delicious food, which
they kept serving me until I was stuffed to the point of no return. Soon I
realized the highlight of their two days holiday was travelling to Brussels. I
was chuffed to know about our upcoming trip to Brussels but soon when I
realized this exercise of travelling all the way to Brussels was only to watch
DHOOM 3, it left me cheerless.
The next day in evening, after
hour and a half drive two SUVs stuffed with more than ten people reached the
Kinepolis Cinema in Brussels. Not to my surprise the DESI crowd of Brussels flocked in big numbers to watch DHOOM 3. Because of which our seats which they reserved were all located in the front row of this big IMAX
screen, which was pretty much depressing. One literally has to rotate his neck by 180 degrees both sides to be able to watch the movie. Now this movie DHOOM 3 which is a sequel of previous DHOOMs is
everything but a good movie. But before I prove how badly and poorly this movie
was directed I like to tell my readers here that I like all kinds of movies. I
specially enjoy foreign language movies. I happen to be a huge fan of Korean
movies. The amount of time an average Korean movie spends in developing and
evolving the characters of the story is much more than any other movie industry
of the world. But DHOOM 3 is a movie which is made for special set of people
who would like to see drama, action, romance, thriller and musical and all
other possible genres in just one movie. This is the main problem of INDIAN
cinema and its viewers that they fail to distinguish between all these genres.
And another basic flaw in INDIAN cinema which is evident in all their movies is
the magnified entry of their main characters. DHOOM 3 actually utilizes 30
minutes of its script just on the mere entry of the four main characters.
DHOOM 3 is still a decade old
concept a serious cop, a funny cop, a thief and a beauty flaunting actress. GOD knows better why such movies even need actresses, a sizzling still image of a female will do an equally good job. The cops in the movie look like anything but cops; and thanks to the generosity and celerity of the thief that he not only robs the bank but somehow
manages to sprinkle all the money over the city as well, before the police can even see him. Watching DHOOM 3 was such a terrible experience that this stolen concept of twin magicians from the Christian
bale and Hugh Jackman movie "The Prestige" couldn't even save the movie from
being in my list of most horrible movies. The much lousy and crummy actions
scenes make it more unbearable. The BMW did sponsor DHOOM 3 and the rumour is
such they’ll now claim for the damages it bring to BMW. This transformation of
a BMW bike into floating boat and that too all in the air, then the bike
becoming an almost underwater submarine and then thrusting out of water like a
rocket and again transforming back to a motor bike was a little too much to
digest. It actually reminded me of 1962’s James Bond 007 of Sean Connery where
he used to defy all physical laws of gravity.
The biggest of all evils was the
ending scene of DHOOM 3. The ending was so abrupt that it actually made me feel
that the cinema authorities made it cut short. All the robberies the thieves
the chasing of thieves, the great Indian circus in the movie was in Chicago,
seconds before last scene, Amir Khan escaped Indian police in Chicago. But in
the last scene somehow Amir Khan was found between two police vans in the middle
of the great contra dam of Switzerland. This imprudent direction and script
writing can’t be forgiven. DHOOM 3 is basically a collection of different short
scenes put together haphazardly to make it look like one complete movie. 
DHOOM 3 gets 2 out of 10 for its non-existent script, deceased direction and its unfounded action scenes.
