Having watched Sanjay Gadhvi's previous offerings (Mere Yaar ki Shaadi Hai and Dhoom 1) I had expected a brilliant film given that he had assembled the best cast he has ever worked with. Thus as I sat there the Canal Walk (Cape Town) cinema, my expectations were sky high.

Opening sequence was promising and then that song! "Dhoom Again" performed by easily the best dancer in the world, masterfully choreographed by stage whiz shiamak davar. The film already had its plus points.

However as the movie meandered on its course, the movie became more about gloss and less about substance.

Each character - except Abishek, who apparently was left in the dark ages - have worked on their looks and appearance for their repsective roles, but did any of the brains trust at YashRaj expect the attractive to not just look the part, but portray it as well?

The plot and screenplay was as skimpy as the clothing the female leads had to wear. Each and every sequence was copied from their superior Hollywood counterparts, and at many a times these looked like a lesser version of the original. At times the stunts were overly done.

Plusses: * With the regular costume designers given a well-deserved break from designing actual clothes, the actresses were forced to wear little, if anything at all.... well for some of us, that is a plus! *Hritik Roshan and his dancing skills: is this guy for real? * The brilliant locales (Rio, Durban, Namibia) * Some good music {though some have been plagiarised from mid-east singers}* Bipasha and Aishwarya: HOT! Need we say more? *some touches of on-screen chemistry between ash and hritik, bips and abishek. * Choreography by Vaibhavi Merchant esp. Crazy Kiya re and Dil Laga Naa

Minuses: * Aishwarya and Bipasha wasted in their respective roles. Both are noted actresses, and yet in this movie they are just used as glam dolls, mere props. Both ladies are there to look HOT and well they score points on that count only. Acting-wise,the less said, the better . And please fire the dialogue writer for Ash's character. * Abhisek BAchchan: his angry young dude role is somewhat lame and he looked like the odd one out. He needed a makeover, which the rest of the cast clearly had. * Forcing Abhisek to dance in the same movie or song as Hritik is like having a dance-off between a rank left-footed newcomer and an champion dancer. He looks laughable.

Regardless of my rants and raves, D2 will continue to dominate the box-office while more superior old-fashioned films (Babul) with actual substance will find their vying for appreciation an uphill battle.

Because I am in Amsterdam, and Indian movies are released here a week behind the India release (with Dutch sub-titles),I was surely tempted to see a Bollywood movie in Netherlands. Dhoom 2 was released and in India had opened in full houses. The movie boasted of great music, great action, great dance, great star cast – a bigger canvas, a bigger story and bigger stunts.

I had also heard later that the movie is not good – except Hritik Roshan. With this mixed reviews in my head, I went to see Dhoom 2 in Pathe Arena theatre. Pathe Arena is a theatre that is located a bit far – in South of Amsterdam. The theatre hall is good. I think the biggest of all the Pathe theatres.

I was happy to see many Indians in the movie hall. The movie unlike in India – did not have an interval break in between.

Now the movie. Hritik was fantastic, he carried the movie on his shoulder. Not a single move of his was out of place. Each expression, each twitch on his face represented the emotion that was undergoing the character.

But the movie was bad. Abhishek acted as if he was acting in his first movie. Ashwairya looked starved to death – except her face – her body was ugly to look at. Adiya Chopra – he had the best dialogues and punch lines – but he does not have anything in him to carry off his character or such wonderful lines. Though they bring some smiles on your face – the lines were really good.

The songs were filmed nicely – especially the first dance of Hritik – "Dhoom Again" – was as good as – "Main Aisa Kyu Hu".

This was the first time – I was disappointed by Masand Ki Pasand's review – who gave 3 out of 5 stars to the movie and appreciated the movie by saying that the Director knows the what audience loves and wants – and delivered that in the movie. I could not dis-agree more with him. It seemed that Masand was blown away by the movie hall full of youngster – in hyped first show; or may be Masand was paid (in cash or kind) to write a good review by the Film Directors. All in all – not a worth seeing the movie – except Hritik. If you are Hritik fan – go for the movie.

My brother roared about the high level of action scenes – but that too can not help me say that – avoid this movie. It is bad!

I know this is a silly action movie but i liked it.

Songs were great.