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to work with. Daisy Shah’s gymnastic ability intrigued me, and her action sequences with Fernandez were somewhat compelling. And, I must say, laughing as much as I did in Race 3, I had a great time despite its dri- vel. I got to make jokes of every possible Bollywood stereotype, and also realize how badly I did not want to see Bobby Deol and Salman Khan fight shirtless. Nevertheless, I cannot, in good conscious, recommend this film to all audiences, especially those who are spending a significant amount of money to go to see this film. It is clear that the makers did not even put a gen- uine creative or artistic effort into the production, and that Race 3 is a vanity project primarily there to support Khan and his friends. Like my mom asked at the end of the film, why was this called “Race” 3? I agree, it could’ve been anything else. Like how to make car crashes funny. Or how to negate every message you are trying to convey. Or how to link every crime to a dance sequence. You get my point.
characters. The dialogue also tends to spell everything out. Apparently, the hallmark of every modern, preten- tious, rich, upper class Indian is not just pathological flirting with primarily white women, but a forced English accent and predilection of saying “Bro” at the end of every sentence. Not to mention an undeniable love for painful one-liners like “I’m sick of this Sikku, dad” or “Our business is our business, none of your business.” It becomes easy to see why injecting any kind of emotional weight into this narrative is thereby incon- ceivable, making this story’s heartbeat of “family unity” unconvincing and its climax underwhelming, unlike its predecessors. I will never leave a film with just bad impressions, though. While most of the acting performances, barring seasoned veteran Anil Kapoor, were stuffy, forced, and forgettable, Jacqueline Fernandez’s dancing was incred- ible to watch, even if she had very little character meat
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