This one takes the cake. Tom Cruise and Anil Kapoor in the same flick. The latter has what could best be described as a cameo and does not get to interact with the Top Gun himself but his female sidekick, who is trying to disrobe in the midst of turbaned guests.
From an impossible plot to scenes from Red Square and Hollywood studioed Kremlin to Dubai and its dust storms to the bustle of Mumbai albeit with Telugu scripts on doorways (man are these gultees now invading Mumbai in droves - displacing the yokels from UP?), this one is a ridiculous comedy of errors that leaves nothing to imagine.
Loud explosions and car chases and crashes later we learn that the nuclear codes are once again in the hands of the lunatics with strange accents, rolling around in a tacky mockup of an Indian five star hotel.
Secure servers, sewers and clouds not withstanding a person with an English accent magically cracks through the most bizzare firewalls to solve the world's problem (that of getting blown to smithereens or whatever you blow to when a nuke goes off).
The mission should you choose to accept it is to pay good money to watch this nonsensical fizzer!
This autumn the weather gods cooperated as we took a family trip in the northeast to see six states that qualify or makeup what is known colloquially in America as New England. Mass, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island (tiniest state in the union). The outing helped tally up the states we either lived in, visited or have worked in to 47. Guess which three have eluded this intrepid traveling family. Any rate the drive was all in about 1,800 miles and included some memorable geographic wonders or points of interest. Easternmost part of state of Massachusetts being one. Furthest drivable road east in Mass being another. Visit to all Ivy League schools (term harkens to a collegiate athletics conference and generally regarded as elite academic institutes of some repute worldwide) is another random bucket list item of which this trip afforded the chance to knock two more of the list. Dartmouth in Hanover, NH and Brown (and its sister institute the RISD - school f
Such missions should be outsourced to India, where a few dishum dishums is all it takes..much cheaper than blowing up half the world to save the other half.
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