Jolly LLB 2 Review

JOLLY L.L.B 2 Movie Review :

The premise of the film is a lowly lawyer working as an assistant for a famous lawyer is faced with life changing decisions and an complicated case which no one else will take.

Courtroom drama / lawyer films and TV shows have always been part of my favorite genre, from Boston Legal to Pink I like to see every single one of them. But these days this genre of movie has become too similar. First half the good lawyer will appear to lose, then he will gain an upper hand, then the opposition will somehow demean that, then again he is about to lose, finally at the last possible second he will pull out some googly and win the case! Sounds familiar?

This film too offers nothing new in that regard…

Plot / Story: The movie’s plot is realistic enough, conveys the premise well and sets up the events adequately. But apart from a few scenes, it has no zing. Its not tense or crackling like PINK or over blown like Damini. It’s just there, plain and normal.

Direction: This is where both the part 1 and part 2 completely fail. This guy is NOT a good director. Somehow the scene which need to have impact often fall flat or are just shot weirdly and seem like a parody. It’s not unwatchable, but it’s nothing like the tense Special 26 or Rustom which was electrifying. A courtroom drama REALLY needs to have that extra factor.

Acting : Akshay Kumar is FLAWLESS and spot on. He doesn’t miss a single beat. He has grown big time as an actor and now is easily one of India’s best leading actors. His lawyer opponent Anu Kapoor is also PAR excellence, the best parts of the film is the two of them sparring. But that’s just a few scenes. Saurabh Sukla plays an eccentric judge who is presumably reprising his role from the first part. He is also rather good. But despite these 3 stellar performances, somehow the film isn’t very tightly wound

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The film’s main events are revealed too early and there is no air of mystery to what happened and why. In that regards PINK got it right, they didn’t show the main events till the end keeping the audience wondering who did what and what REALLY took place…

Rating : 6/10. If you LOVE lawyer/courtroom dramas, you might like this one. If you are an Akki fan, you will also like this film.

I didn’t dislike the film, but it didn’t punch hard enough in its dialogs and scene until the VERY end. The climax was already revealed in the trailers so even that lost its punch!

Mild Spoilers ahead :

P.S : Why the heck is this movie called State VS Jolly LLB 2, in the film its one private firm vs jolly. the police dept abandons the tainted officer in question!

P.P.S : In the first scene, the mic Jolly is speaking into has NO WIRES connected to it! its like a internet meme waiting to happen!