This is a movie review for "Don", released May 12, 1978 in India. I watched this on February 13, 2020 via YouTube.
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Run Time: 2 Hours and 46 Minutes
Trailer
Official MPAA Rating (According to IMDB.com):
G / General Audiences
PG / Parental Guidance Suggested
PG-13 / Parents Strongly Cautioned
R / Restricted
X
Not Rated
Notable Cast
Amitabh Bachchan ... Don / Vijay
Zeenat Aman ... Roma
Pran ... Jasjit (J.J.)
Iftekhar ... DSP D'Silva (as Iftikhar)
Om Shivpuri ... Vardan - Fake Interpol Officer R.K. Malik
Satyendra Kapoor ... Inspector S. Verma (as Satyen Kapoo)
Plot
Don is one of the biggest gangsters in India. The DSP have been trying to find a way to get rid of him or catch him. They finally get an opportunity but he is killed. They find a doppleganger that looks identical to Don [Vijay] and try to replace him so that they can catch the other people in Don's group. Can Vijay infiltrate the group successfully without getting caught? Is there a way to get out alive?
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
3/5 - *SPOILERS* Good movie but not what I was expecting. Having seen the new Don (2006), I wanted to see the movie that they had remade. I personally liked the 2006 movie over this one but both have decent points.
I liked the action of the movie until the very end where it turned into a martial arts movie like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" with moves that were not realistic at all [back flip over a burning car, for example]. The martial art moves are what really knocked down my rating for this movie.
The 2006 movie did a really good job at remaking the movie and made it more interesting (with actually switching Don for Vijay). As much as I disliked seeing Don actually die and never come back, like in the 2006, it was cool to see Vijay work hard to try to get his life back and to protect Deepu/Munni.
It was a decent movie. If you don't like older movies, however, I would not recommend it because it definitely had less computer graphics and a dimmer color scheme (doesn't stand out as well). Also, it was in Hindu with English subtitles. Otherwise, you would have to watch in just Hindu. I could not find this as something to buy on eBay with English subtitles, hence watching via YouTube.
Anyways, thank you for reading my movie review! There will be others eventually, so keep an eye out for them.
~ Gracie Mae DeLunac
Contact me?
Twitter @gracie_delunac
Email graciemaedelunac@yahoo.com
Facebook https://facebook.com/GracieMaeDeLunac/
Skype gracelyn2019@yahoo.com
503.
No comments:
Post a Comment