Review of Bodyguard

Bodyguard (I) (2011)
7/10
Second half is really worth suffering the first half.
20 November 2011
Salman Khan is playing the role of a bodyguard, in this humorless movie with stupid action scenes. He gets introduced to be a hard stone man who lets his opponents pee in their pants. How, dancing? This guy can't dance. He is no Hritik Roshan. He still is this stiff man who cannot dance and who cannot act in a mature way in the first half.

The movie is filled with stupid rhyme jokes that are not funny. Like: waiter I see you later." Who wrote these lines? They are very dated. This bodyguard is wearing an earphone, why? He isn't communicating to anyone. He wears sunglasses inside, why? Salman Khan is driving in a bus to go to Kareena Kapoor. I thought this man who was running towards the bus, calling "tupperware" was Govinda. It amazes me how Bollywood can present Kareena Kapoor as a beautiful woman, when she isn't. She can act though. I was pleased to see Raj Babbar back in a movie. This man has a beautiful voice. The action sequences are not real. Salman beats a lot of guys up one by one in the disco, but after he beats up each guy, they disappear. Now it's not OK that a man from in the almost fifties falls in love with a girl who is in college or vice versa.

I don't want to be all negative about this movie, so I mention one major plus: Aditya Pancholi! He's a great actor. And leaving all the jokes about Salman Khan aside, SK can play emotional and physical complicated roles very well. That's why it's a pity and a waste that he plays comedy movies and dances in songs. He should do what he's best at. He proved that in the scene where he said "I love you" to Kareena and thought he was speaking to Chaiya. Very beautiful moment, but he had to spoil it by bumping to the tree. The part of the bodyguard did not suit him, the part of this insecure man did. And that's very interesting. There is more about Salman Khan than meets the eye. Just face it and show it to us.

After this park scene the movie gets mature and all together interesting. That's also the right environment for Aditya Pancholi to perform at best. What bothers me is that the similar action-scenes in old movies like Mission Kashmir or Blind Fury is much better than in this movie. And that's not good. Salman Khan already showed us he can act on a mature level in Tere Naam. If he would play in a movie without the stupid jokes, good action is not necessary, good story, mature acting, he could really amaze us, because Salman Khan is a complex actor who is not all around in acting. That sets a limit on his skills. But when he knows what his limits are and gets the best out of that, he could amaze more people than only a few he has reached so far. Don't travel the same road as JcVD, but learn from other's mistakes. As for JCvD, I really think he's making his comeback.
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