Commando 2: The Black Money Trail
Cast: Vidyut Jamwal, Adah Sharma, Freddy Daruwala, Thakur Anoop Singh, Esha Gupta, Adil Hussain, Suhail Nayyar
Rated: 5.5/10
He may have made his debut as a baddie but Vidyut jamwal soon found his calling in and as Commando. However, he is not the first actor to have started his career as a bad boy. Shatrughan Sinha and even Shah Rukh Khan have done negative roles and continued to be hero material in the later films. So it is not surprising when Commando was released with jamwal as the hero.
It was not so much as the story that was the star attraction here. It was some fantastic action that our hero did. Not that we had not seen anything like this before. Hollywood movies have some amazing stunts. Fast and Furious and Mission Impossible series are just a couple of examples to prove that we (in India) have seen some awesome and mindboggling action-thrillers.
What made our desi Commando stand out and people took notice was that this was perhaps the first film where one got to see this level of action and stunts. So it was obvious that the second installment would create some stir. More so since it deals with a very topical issue — crack down on black money.
Since the opening scene is brilliant, one would expect that director Deven Bhojani would keep up the pace with the action. And it sure does. Jamwal flexing his six-packs and muscles rushes to ‘desh ki sewa mein’.’
In fact, movies that are purely based on action should not try to change their USP. People are sitting there to see action that should not look forced.
The plot is not overly complicated. The protagonist (Jamwal as Karanveer Singh Dogra) is a commando who is highly skilled in many aspects of survival, weaponry, hand-to-hand combat and is on a mission to eradicate black money, which has been sent to banks abroad with the help of a team whether he succeeds or not is the twist in the tale.
Of course, there are no prizes being given away to guess what happens in the end. And it is unfortunate that an action-thriller such as this one gets let down by its predictability.
Go see this one if it is action that gives you an adrenaline rush.