Reviews & Ratings for
Race 3 (2018)

After a long weekend of keeping ill, I finally saw the Salman Khan Epic, Race 3…

Maybe it’s the fact that I didn’t spend any of my own money (got a free coupon) to see the film, or maybe it was a 2d screening… this film only gave me a partial headache and I had to walk out of the film only twice… which is SO refreshing!

Especially after Baaghi 2, seeing which had led me to have a semi mental breakdown and it had taken me an entire day to regain my coherence back.

Glad to Report, Race 3 only kills HALF of your brain cells… guess they left the remaining half for RACE 4 !

Now on to this review…

Unlike Ahmed Khan who takes too many stupid pills, Remo as a director is on Rohit Shetty Steroids… so we have amazing sequences like Anil Kapoor shooting at a person which sets him on FIRE. (can be see in the trailers too) Awesome…

Lets go for more… since this film has a LOT of characters, they sort of go via the corporate presentation route of giving a voice over and explaining who these people are… which is FINE overall, no issues… we cant have 30-40 minutes wasted on characters alone. Speaking of which, for a Salman Khan film… the starting 15 mins has very little Salman and more of Anil Kapoor. Which is TOTALLY fine in my books, Kapoor is infinitely more watchable and a much better actor than all the rest of the cast combined…

But when Salman Khan IS introduced… he has now transcended the Matrix and become NEO. Using a wing suit to fly for miles and miles through the city and into the desert/outskirts. Till he suddenly drops down like a STONE (hopefully the box office collections will drop down just as fast) getting Sallu Bhai into his FIRST action scene. In this scene, Daisy shah has time to get weapons to fight, but not enough to get a pair of jeans or shorts instead of a dress. But how else would we see the awesome dress slitting scene (shown in trailers as well) and her manly macho legs.
As of right now, I feel daisy Shah has more macho legs than bobby deol and salman combined.

Along with miss shah is the generic indian actor dude. A Fellow SO generic, I forgot his name already. (If I ever knew it…) So generic indian actor is Miss shah’s twin. His idea of female empowerment ? keep calling his twin sister bro… ALL the god damn time. Sometimes before, after and during a sentence. In-fact he says BRO so many times, now his name is BRO.

Bro, Miss shah, Sallu and Deol are all part of anil Kapoor’s mafiaso type family. btw in a later scene, Diasy's slit up dress is now whole... such is the power of her family and sanskar...

To be honest the story isn’t too god damn awful, its just plain bad, nothing headache inducing. Which is umm... ok I guess.

This all leads to a song, which I skipped for a well deserved bathroom break.

Now... as the movie picks up, we get into more of a typical RACE type formula, with 100s of meaningless twists, turns and double crosses. Which is ALL fine, I am not complaining. They have kept up the name of this so called franchise which the audience will expect to have an overcooked and way too complicated plot for no good reason. But that’s what these sort of films are like. Just like my previous para, the plot is also long and confusing. Enjoy...

Lastly Miss Sri Lanka gets added into the mix and forget what I said about daisy shah’s manly legs. Jackie got more masculine legs than sallu and sunny deol combined…

Cool…

The rest of the film is not bad. It certainly isn’t groan inducing like Baaghi 2. It’s stupid but not moronic, the action is silly, but it moves swiftly and nothing much hurts the brain, till Salman flies out of a truck in ANOTHER god damn wing suit and now he miles from Cambodia to the Saudi Arabia-ish location in a wing suit… geez.
Either the director has NO clue what these are or he has played way too much of Just Cause 3. Not to mention, when bikes fall into bamboo huts, they all explode… in a huge 200 feet fireball. What was inside that bamboo hut? The Pompeii volcano?

Now easily the MOST laughable scene is where Salman hand aims two rockets and they hit their targets. this scene has been shown 1000s of times on TV. this one scene made me cringe a LOT. but Surprisingly, maybe good sense prevailed, in the film itself, Salman uses a GPS to track the vehicles and satellite LOCK the missiles to the car and then shows his strength by launching em by hand, but they are guided missiles. of-course with such powerful missiles launching by hand any human will get blasted backwards, hence they are vehicle mounted, but you know... salman is neo now... so who even cares at this point!

This leads us to the end of film, which has the cast promise you an sequel… to melt the remaining half of your brains left over after this film…

Rating : 5.5/10. Its bad, but its not the worst film this year.

It’s a fine watch for Sallu fans, especially once Sallu decides that he has taken the TVF’s Parody video (TVF's The Making Of.. 'A 200 Crore Film') WAYYYY too seriously and proceeds to make the premise of that parody into a reality. when Deol's shirt comes off and so does his for NO reason. Wow... I was remembering the parody and laughing uncontrollably...

For that. I salute sallu bhai and his dedication to crafting nonsense and minting money.

Truly sir, seeing your talent in a film like RACE is like seeing a car run over our collective brains…

Oh wait… too soon?

Well to be honest, I had good laughs watching it with cousins(one of which was Salman fan. He was roasted during the movie) and I believe the movie is intended to serve the same purpose.

Race 3 is a film directed by Remo D’Souza. I am one of the few people who was impressed by the trailer and was hopeful that this film was going to be a sheer blockbuster. But then the promotions of the film started that reduced my interest in the film. After watching the film yesterday, I can say that I have watched the worst film anyone could make.

Plot: Things suddenly begin to change for the Singh family when Jessica Gomes enters their lives.

Story and direction: I remember in 2008 when the first instalment came out and me being quite excited when no one talked about the film. The film surprised everyone and subsequently a sequel came out in 2013 which was not as good as its predecessor. But still the film worked for its convincing plot and setting. Let me get one thing straight. This film had the makings of a blockbuster. The set pieces of the film looked quite awesome and set the screens to be blazing on film. But alas, that’s where the excitement stops. The plot is so weak and paper thin that it couldn’t invest me for a second. There were so many things that the makers packed into this film that it felt irritating after some time. Watching the film, I felt that given a director’s job I could have done a better job. Remo D’Souza just spoils the whole film. He just tries every formula in the book without giving his own input that would make the film standout in comparison to others. Many scenes felt so impossible that I wondered how the writer thought of putting it in the script (if there was one). The dialogues were already trolled even before the film released but I can say there are plenty more. Not as a Salman Khan fan, I was disappointed more as an action film fan. The stunts looked so amateurish (considering a Hollywood action director was hired). There was a lot of green screen and stunts dumbed down for the Indian audiences. Even I could know the difference between the actors and their stunt doubles. Slow motion has been used a lot which negated the possible effect the scene should have.

Performances: Anil Kapoor was top notch and maybe the possible reason why this film was still bearable. Salman Khan was his usual. We know Jacqueline’s acting skills and as to why she is taken in films. Bobby Deol basically does nothing in the film. Daisy Shah was horrible. Saqib Saleem and Rajesh Sharma were wasted. Sharat Saxena did good with what was given.

Music: Salman Khan, who is known for providing chartbusters, fails miserably in this department. None of the songs felt natural or good. It felt like they were compensating for the lack of story. If I had to pick out the worst song it would be the Salman Khan written and performed song ‘I Found Love’. Salman Khan should stop writing songs after this experience and stop taking Iulia Vantur to sing songs. The BGM works in places but I have heard better.

Worst Scene: It would be any scene where Anil Kapoor and any other character converse in Bhojpuri. It felt very forced and funny. The dialogues were full of trash.

Verdict: Salman Khan should have thought even before investing a huge amount in a film like this. If that wasn’t enough, he hired Remo as the director (we all know what happened with FLYING JATT). The makers have announced a sequel to this film. Hopefully they understand what they are doing. RACE 3 was more a comedy film than an action thriller. It is the worst film this franchise has to offer.

I am going with a 2/10.

Action packed but dumb , Stylish but loud . A franchise upheld by Abbas - Mustan was pushed towards a downfall . Salman Khan was at his best being at his worst. Remo d'souza killing the art of direction in this overlong disappointing flick.

was'nt that good as expected. Not at all !!!!!! the story is complete pale boring if you have seen previous parts of race. Salman Khan as Sikander in the movie manages to bring little excitement to the audiences but overs all he too must have regretted signing the film.
Anil Kapoor plays the role of father for the 3 { daisy sha, saquib and salman} Salman beign the the eldest one and the rest two younger twins. Bobby Deol as their bodyguard. Over it seemed as if the makers were confused as to put which one on which team. #stupid #stylish #lessthanexpectation
Better was part 1 and part 2