Force – Movie Review

Film: “Force”
Cast: John Abraham, Genelia D’Souza and Vidyut Jamwal
Director: Nishikant Kamat
Rating: 3star

A raw rugged cop’s tale of vicious vendetta fused into a tender romance seems like a hard act to live up to. But Nishikant Kamat, seeking inspiration from a hit Tamil film “Kaakha Kaakha” manages just fine.
He gets incredible support from dialogue writer Ritesh Shah, who infuses every exchange on love (with the girl who won’t take no for an answer) and war (against drug peddlers) with a kind of lived-in warmth and familiarity.
Kamat, who earlier made “Mumbai Meri Jaan” on terrorism and the city of Mumbai, here has a blast bringing back the old-fashioned action hero. John Abraham has worked hard on his physique and his expressions too look like a cop who thinks falling in love would take him away from his line of duty.
Enter the vivacious effervescent girl nextdoor. Genelia with her multiplicity of expressions aptly plays “Bubbly” to this duty-bound “Bunty” who would rather not get entangled in human foibles like love and family. But the inevitable happens.
Kamat lovingly weaves the love story between the impish girl nextdoor and the gentle giant into the persistent call of duty, making sure the film’s claims to be an action film doesn’t get drowned in mush.
While the first hour is a loose bag of striking shootouts staged in crowded localities of Mumbai and some highly dispensable romantic songs, it is the second-hour where the narration really gathers momentum pitching the relentless cop against his chief adversary a drug dealer named Vishnu, played with arresting elan by debutant Vidyut Jamwal.
The man-to-man confrontations between Abraham and Jamwal have a rousing rugged resonance to them. They may make you squirm with their brutality. But the two look like well-matched opponents. Action director Allan Amin devises combats that convey a bone-crunching realism.
The two adversaries take care of the rest. John gives a finely pitched performance looking every inch like the action hero who can deliver that punch. He handles both the brutal and tender moments in the violence and romance, with ease.
Newcomer Vidyut Jamwal makes a formidable adversary. The menace is not only in the physique but the tone. This man means business. Some of the supporting cast is interesting too.
“Force” is a full-on action film with balls, brawn and brains. It’s the kind of virile cinema where action speaks louder than words. Blessedly the narrative secretes some fine dialogues and tender love story that goes with the turbulent territory. Nishikant Kamat balances out the colour khaki with sharp colours of humour and romance.

After Salman Khan in “Dabangg” and Ajay Devgn in “Singham”, get ready for John Abraham’s cop film, “Force”, in which the star performs gravity defying stunts without the protective cables.
“He was very flexible and I didn’t use any cables. This is the first time I did any action without using any cables. John has done everything by himself,” popular action director Allan Amin told IANS.
“He had to jump from 150 ft on an air bag without using any cables and he had to pick a bike of 150 kg, which again he did without cables,” said Amin, who was also the action director of “Dhoom”.
“It has action like ‘Satya’ but is completely stylised,” he added.
Amin shoots down reports of John’s injury while doing the dangerous stunts, saying: “He was not injured, he was bruised while doing bare body stunts. If you fall on ground with that much of weight, obviously you are going to get a scratch.”
In this remake of the Tamil film “Kaakha Kaakha”, John is paired with Genelia D’Soza.
The model-turned-actor made his debut in Bollywood as a passionate lover with “Jism” (2003) and then moved on to action with “Dhoom” (2004) followed by “Kaal” and then the terrorist drama “New York” (2008).
Amin, the man behind stunts in the first two instalments of “Dhoom”, isn’t sure about part three, but says there will be incredible action sequences in his next project with Abhishek Bachchan called “Players”, an official remake of “The Italian Job”.
“I don’t know ‘Dhoom 3′, but my ‘Players’ is coming now. It’s a very different film. It’s ‘The Italian Job’, but I tried to make all the action sequences much bigger and better than ‘The Italian Job’,” said Amin.
Interestingly, Amin stays away from watching Bollywood or Hollywood action films and says he takes inspiration from story books.
“I read lots of storybooks. In a book the writer gives the finer details of the action sequences; so you learn from that. If you follow any particular style, it shows that you have copied. I read novels of Frederick Forsyth and Wilbur Smith,” he said.
The action director has already hosted a stunt-based reality show “Stunt Mania”. He is also set to judge another action reality show “Jaanbaaz” along with actor Sunny Deol.

Shooting for his first full-fledged action film “Force” is proving to be injurious for John Abraham as the actor has already suffered 282 bruises, seven broken bones and innumerable scratches during the shoot.
“Force”, directed by Nishikanth Kamath, boasts of adrenaline pumping action sequences.
It has John with several physical injuries as the actor refused to use a body double.
According to sources, the film’s production unit started maintaining a log book for all action sequences and people who performed it. The tally is said to have shocked everyone in the unit.
“Force” is a remake of Gautham Menon’s successful 2003 Tamil film “Kaakha Kaakha”.
John plays a cop in the film which also stars Genelia D’Souza. It is slated to release Sept 16

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