Commando 2 (2017)
4/10
Disappointed!
24 February 2021
Warning: Spoilers
I've seen the first film, and it's very impressive! I'm really excited to watch this film, because I really hope for more. I think, because this film was released in 2017 - four years after the first film was released - this film will have a fresh storyline and action. Pooja Chopra was the female lead in her first film, however she did not appear in this film. The female lead was taken over by Adah Sharma, who I had previously seen in the film Hasee To Phasee. I don't really know Adah Sharma, but I'm quite interested to see him here. Well ... I watched this film in 2021, it's been years since this film was released. I watched this, after I watched the first film, because my friend recommended it. Intrigued, I decided to watch this trilogy. The day before I watched the movie Commando 2, I already watched the first film, and it's really impressive! Vidyut Jammwal's actions and good looks fascinated me, so I was very excited to watch the movie Commando 2 and 3. Obviously, I have high expectations for this film.

In the first minutes, I was presented with Vidyut Jammwal's action against the guards of a building. Vidyut does a good job of the sequence, but it's a bit exaggerated. Well ... Since this is a Bollywood film, I quite understand it. There are many other Bollywood films with similar action, most of which are even worse. The action is not bad, but it can't be said to be good.

This film is quite confusing at the beginning. The director seems to have made the audience curious, and kept on guessing. I don't really like Adah Sharma here, especially her slightly annoying accent. However, that is precisely the uniqueness of Bhavna Reddy's character. I don't know what accent it is, but it looks like it's a South Indian accent. I still appreciate Adah, even though I'm a little annoyed. LOL.

I'm a little disappointed with the action of Karanveer Dogra aka Vidyut Jammwal here. He looks stupid for a Commando. For over two hours, I always cursed and said, because I was so upset with his actions. However, Vidyut Jammwal's acting and action sequences are already good, even though his character is very annoying. However, I just realized that I was tricked by the character Karan, after I watched the ending.

To Esha Gupta, she was very charming. Initially, I sympathized with the character Maria / Vicky Chaddha after hearing her life story, which she told Karan. Okay, I defended her at the time. However, I hated his character when it all came out, that she was the criminal. Amazingly, why did Vicky only kill her husband, while her enemy, who was clearly in sight, she let escape? Why did he have to reveal who he really was to his enemy, the one who was after him? In fact, at that time she was holding a gun, and she could shoot Karan who was clearly in front of him. Okay, I understand that the director didn't want to hurt the main character, but ... isn't that ridiculous?

The storyline is really bad. At the beginning of the film, we know that the Minister, told Inspector Bakhtawar that Karan was a very dangerous ex-convict. Meanwhile, when we watch the ending, we will be shown the "game" they are doing. In short, Bakhtawar knows who Karan is. And this is what is very disturbing and I really really want to convey. We know that there were three people who were sent by the Minister to arrest Vicky Chaddha, one of whom was an old man. Then, it was said that Karan blackmailed the man, and forced him to pretend to be a stroke sufferer, so that Karan could join the group. We'll see, if the Minister doesn't know that the old man is just pretending to have suffered a stroke. Then in the ending, it is told that Karan and the Minister had planned to arrest Vicky Chaddha for a long time. What?! I really don't understand this. I appreciate scriptwriters who bother to make a plot twist at the end of the story, but the plot twist actually destroys the whole story.

Adah Sharma is so annoying. When she did his stunts against criminals with chains, it just seemed ridiculous. She seemed to be playing with the chains, not fighting criminals.

The soundtrack isn't too bad. For the Haare Krishna song Haare Ram, it's a bit bad in my opinion. I liked the original version of the Bhool Bhulaiyaa film. But the remake version is really, really bad. However, I prefer the new version of the video clip, rather than the original video clip. The music video is more energetic than the old one, but for the song, it's still a better version of the film Bhool Bhulaiyaa. For the T-Series, he should also include credit for the original background music maker. The original arrangement belonged to a South Korean boy band, but I forgot the name. When I watch the movie clips of the song on YouTube, I don't see T-Series writing credit for the original creators. Pritam took the music from them. I'm not a fan of K-Pop, but I don't like it when Bollywood takes their songs, without giving credit. For the song Tere Dil Mein, it was awesome. Armaan Malik's vocals really hypnotized his listeners. Unfortunately, the song was not included in the film. However, I think not including that song in the film is the right decision, because it can reduce the tension.

I don't know what else to say. Thank you for reading my review :)

My rating: 4/10
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