 That would be, um, mud-lub. That means I don't understand. I know. It's just one of the things I've picked up on in films. Wow, a non-curse word. Yeah, anytime they say mud-lub. Yeah, every time. Mud-lub mud-lub. Hey, welcome back to our stupid direction to the Corbin. I'm a gumbo. Cush-wha. Is it cush-wha? Or cush-wha. Cush-wha. Cush-wha. Who was that? Three syllables. Cush-wha. Coo-chee-whoa. Coo-chee-mama. M-gumbo. Coo-chee-mama. Today we're doing a movie with Phil. And we are doing dawn of time to the king returns. Dawn returns again. Dawn, the dawn of time. Dawn, the second coming. And so is Priyanka. Hey, hello! Hey-o! Anyways, so yes, obviously we're reviewing Dawn too. If you haven't seen our review of Amitabh Bakhtan's Dawn, and then Shah Rukh Khan's First Dawn, we've done those. Those are already posted on the channel, so you can go check those out. If you'd like this, it'll be a 100% sort of review. Obviously, you've all seen this. You've all seen this. You've seen it. If you haven't, what's the matter with you? Are you really Indian? It came out 2011, so 13 years ago. Geez. Why would that be 13 years ago? Aren't we in 2020? Oh, no. It would be 11 years ago. Shut up. Regardless, a long time. Happy 2027, everybody. Directed by Farhan Akhtar, written by Farhan Akhtar, and starring Shah Rukh Khan, Prankochopra Bomanarani, the same cast as before. Before you get him in here. Om Puri. Om Puri. But like I said, if you haven't seen our other reviews of The Last Dawns, you can go watch those. Rick, your initial thoughts, please. Also, I have my Shah Rukh Khan. Hey. I have a lot of notes I'll get into when we get into the thicker thick of it. Love getting into the thick. My basic feedback right at the top is this. I like the second half, like from the interval, I like the second half more than I like the first half. And I ultimately, I like this more than I like Dawn. But it's got a lot of problems. So if this was on and I had nothing else to watch, depending on the mood, I'd probably leave it on if it was the second half. I wouldn't revisit it necessarily. But I'm also oddly interested to see if they might do a Dawn 3 and take it up another notch. Because I think this is a notch above Dawn. Oh, I think it's 10 notches above Dawn. I still think there's a lot of problems. Yeah. No denying that. But this was more enjoyable. Oh, yeah. Because at least... Even from start to finish, even though I like the second half more, at least you have all the good action and good stuff like that, and this one that she didn't have in the first one. But... And it didn't seem as dated as the other one. This has got to be of everything we've watched. The... largest amount of the most gloriously awful white acting I've ever seen in my life. The English the most? Because we've seen some a lot. Yeah, but... It's actually impressive. This was a lot. How much... It's actually... I can tell you how much I was busting out laughing. It's actually impressive how often they can get bad white actors. I said that's exactly what I said to Indran. Because you think at one point... You think at one point, I mean, I guess we've had it once and started to do Dawn, but he actually paid for actors. But the fact that it's always consistently awful. It's glorious. It's like they're going out of their way on purpose. Yes, it used to. It used to really annoy me. Well, it would really annoy me if it's a movie. It's like, if I was watching The Lunchbox and then some stupid white actor comes in and ruins what this glorious piece of art is. But when it's Dawn, too, I laughed out loud five, six different times because not only was it bad, but most of the time, they had one frickin' line. They just had to deliver like the dude in the elevator. Steph says, I'm so glad they kept that in. He had his moment. He had his moment. So anyway, that was amazing. I think it was way better than Dawn, the first Shahrukh Khan Dawn. Yeah, I enjoyed it more. I think it's way much better of a film in terms just of all, in all aspects, even though it still has for a heist slash spot. This was almost like a combination of not the current bonds, but more 90s to early 2000s bonds and oceans. And if you'd seen MI1 through three. Oh, okay, yeah. Especially MI1. I mean, there's a lot of that as well, a lot of inspirations. There's almost, almost, almost a full-on rip from MI1. Oh, really? Which one? The whole breaking into the vault. Literally hanging upside down and typing in the entry password. Oh, really? Yeah, that's, you've seen clips of it. Oh, yeah, I've seen, I've seen, you know, I've seen Dawn, well, I mean, um, yeah, that's where Tom comes in and he's hanging above it and then they let him drop and he drops to the floor and his sweat's going to hit them. So he, to get in, he's hanging upside. So I was like, okay, are you going to do everything or are we going to do the sweat? But thankfully it didn't. It was just enough, just enough. And it feels very much. In fact, I wanted to, I know I won't forget, but that was a good time to give the shout-out. One of my favorite things about this, this was a Mission Impossible level score. I thought the score, which the score is from composer, that just goes by Shankar, but it's Shankar Mahadavad, who's done, like, Dildohak Nado, and we've seen, my name is Khan, yeah, you name it. We've seen a ton. I was very impressed. This was the kind of score you want for this kind of movie. Especially for the time, this is, even still, one of the better action films we've seen from India. Second half. Obviously we haven't seen a ton of action films. Obviously we saw War, and obviously that's, you can't really compare it because obviously the, at least an action aspect I'm talking about, that is, came out what, two years ago. So 10 years of VFX is a long time in VFX. But like, we haven't seen a ton of action films. No. In our, in our whole library of films we've watched. Of Indian films? No, we really haven't. We've watched some that have action in them, like Padma Vat and Bajirao have action in them, but they're not action films. Yeah, I mean, it's, obviously this year's very different because we've been in all over the place. And stuff like that. But for 2011, I thought it was actually quite good, and I was much more entertained in this one than I was in the first show. As was I, especially against second half. I didn't actually have any difference. Actually, I think I, the end, just, what, the twist? No, just, I mean, I knew there was a twist coming, but I hate it when like, all right, now this is what we did. Yeah. This, and then, you know, it's 10 minutes of montage of what happened. Here's what's really happening. Okay, cool, whatever. It's just, you guys will always hear me gripe on ends. So before, before I jump into my, the things that were beautifully wrong with the film, and I mean that, they're beautifully wrong. There's like, it's almost like it's an endearing quality to them in the same way that some of the earlier SRK films have cringy things in them, but you wouldn't want to change it. I kind of like the flaws. Get that helicopter out of my face. Let's go, let's go down the line of performances of the actors and then the direction and then get into the weird stuff. Yay. So apparently, okay, so there's two different sites I looked at. One said he did all of his own stunts. Another one said he did almost all of his own stunts. Do you know what's the case? You guys can tell. Yeah, like they said he did the fall off the top of the building. Like he was trying to go full Tom Cruise on this. He did the fall on the building and that I didn't see a stunt double anywhere. So I'm voting for the fact that SRK did his own stunts. Good, I'm glad. Yep. Yeah, I thought he did a good job in this section. Me too. I still think he is a strange fit for a spy like Shabu Khan. I much prefer him as the romance guy. Yeah. Just obviously that's just I feel like his wheelhouse is at least especially back then we'll see it in the next year. Yeah. Because obviously as you mature as an actor and stuff like that it could change. It'd be interesting to see him play and he may have done this before and we just haven't like Ethan Hunt from Mission Impossible or James Bond straight spy hero guy versus in this one where he's the bad guy spy where he's just SRK being like a James Bond type. I think that would work. Yeah, I think it could. We might get it next year. Who knows? I don't know what these new films have in store. But I thought he looked a lot better in this one obviously he was a lot more especially with the long hair. Yeah. The opening. Me and my wife were both like, when he cut his hair I knew you would. When he gets off the plane with the haircut. No it was I think the song started right? The Oh yeah it was. It was the song. The Don song of the film. Yeah. And me and my wife were both like Oh no. He cut his hair. I was like Why? Cut his hair I knew for him. And shaved his beard. Yeah. It was so sad. But hey at least he put on the Rithic mask. Did you see that going? He took it off. I automatically No! I was like that is some great mask technology right there. Yeah. I loved the stupid little. I did too. I loved that. I thought it was a great little addition. Yeah. It's I mean not believable at all but you know it's fun. Fun spy stuff. I enjoy that stuff right when I have it I was like Yeah! He killed Rithic. And so I will say going over to like to Priyanka right we finally got what I was expecting we would get in Don we got to see her kick some ass Yeah. And was very believable. I really enjoyed that aspect of it. Though the first scene they have together where they're talking got to say little bit cringy there just the acting stuff I don't know what was going on but they both weren't at their best in that scene but the rest of the time I really enjoyed them I really enjoyed her I have something to say when I get into the stuff that for me was just like really come on guys later in the film but I mean I for the most part I like the fact that she was Roma again. I did not like the fact that they made them a love thing. No. No. Okay. I was like this really this person that she's wanted to kill because she killed her brother and then she's the entire film wanted to get it Don but now that Shara Khan does is hey baby and now she's all like wet in the pants bad boy complex it's the bad boy complex like really like that's women are so stupid they just get so horny and forget everything they want to do so what happened with that was that Farhan's idea I don't know what it is did SRK did SRK did SRK say okay I want Priyanka in this and her character needs to fall in love with me maybe it's just if you're in a Shara Khan film you have to have somebody fall in love with you because you're Shara Khan and somebody's going to fall in love with you of course well this is a completely different thing yeah I know this is its own thing which is fine also how did she become like a detective real fast you don't need to know that okay don't ask so many questions Gorman all you need to know is that she decided to work for Interpol I know wait what you know why you know why because Priyanka knew and four or five years later she'd be needed for Quantico so she needed to have that kind of thing on her resume yes of course for that it was just confusing it was very strange I was like oh Roma works for Interpol do we know why shh don't ask questions don't look just the movie started shut up if we missed it I don't I'm sorry you did it's a five year lapse a lot happens in five years Corbin oh wow jeez yeah see it's a five year period he's in Malaysia for five years I thought she did well in her role she did fine and I thought she had much better action scenes this time nothing to the level of like agentina which you know Roma and Don she's the queen of that bang man I still want an agentina film come on I can't wait that's a franchise people it is it is like the anti-heroes the post is gonna be like forks yes fork the bad guys it's the best idea please do it so yeah I thought this one in terms of having pacing throughout the film was much much better especially the second half and I mean maybe it's just the fact that I didn't know what was coming obviously and I love that I love that they could just do whatever they wanted yeah so it was obviously Farhan was much more freed to just kind of do what he felt the story wanted and I thought his direction was everything in this was better than the first one in terms of I felt like you could feel the freedom he had with his DOP as well like really great car chase is really great stunt sequences I put down great stunt work a lot more money was really good job by the whole stunt team in this one of the better things we've seen was with stunt work and you could tell like if I was making a film and somebody said hey you need a director who can do like a mission impossible style film and they showed me this as part of like his real I'd be like dang yes he can direct a spy thriller yep absolutely 100% still had some of obviously the dated kind of stuff now nothing like yeah we get into the last one should we get into the yeah sure yeah we want to talk about so first of all the prison that they're in at the beginning Bowman and SRK has the worst security on earth so fights are unstopped weapons come in unchecked and you don't watch the cooking staff so they can easily slip poisons into the food it is the whoever that prison if it exists it needs to have a complete overhaul it was beyond ridiculous we both said there's security it's also it's really funny to watch SRK leaning for a kiss because you know it's never gonna happen he almost did he almost did I know it's not gonna happen I still want to see that film which one is the film that he actually does kiss somebody no do you know how did that happen what's the he's saying there's a film where SRK smooches I think it's not one of his more popular not a kiss on the neck lip the lip yeah it's a kiss on the lip who'd he kiss I don't know I can't remember wow yeah I love that he loves Tom and Jerry I love that I love that Don loves Tom and Jerry and they brought that back I also want to know how did Don get use of a huge stadium for his secret criminal meeting he's overcome he owns it oh that's right it was the night stadium nevermind and then I wrote again oh no more white people yes so both of these guys are wanted by Interpol how would they not be recognized at this high of a level financial institution I don't know when Bowman came in no questions asked none at all nice stunt work and if you had to watch oh yeah so this part first of all I don't know if y'all know but if you were shot anywhere on your body that can cause severe bleeding you've got three minutes five max before you're dead and you bleed out Priyanka'd be dead she'd be dead I thought she was I thought she was too the fact that she wasn't dead I was like really guys come on she was dead well but here's the thing they didn't even check like she's not dead of course well Don knows but here's what I want to know why the heck if he could blow the room up with his watch at any given moment why didn't he do it before they shot her when they were doing the countdown and saying you need to shoot him or we're shooting you he's here like this and then he says oh put the gun up here why didn't he just do what he did 60 seconds later when his hands are behind his head and he goes chink chink he let them shoot her he doesn't love her clearly not okay that does not make Priyanka happy and when Priyanka's not happy everybody's not happy it's funny but I actually for as annoying as those things are this is one of those movies that is given permission to have those kind of flaws oh yeah I don't most several con films unless I'm told in the beginning this is right like you're going into Swadesh or my name is con right and obviously this was an old Bollywood action film and so I was like there's clearly going to be some stuff that probably is going to go on here and so my bar even though the second bar was higher than the first bar because I just heard more about it I think it lived up to it and I would watch this one again just like if it was on I would too oh this will be fun I'll have a good time in this one it met my expectations it's not without it's flaws for sure 100% and it's I still think if it was done today it would probably be a much better film just because of our technology nowadays and I think the amount of money that people will put into an action film now yeah and I think fight choreography is better and story story is better yep story is better I thought Bowman thank you I was just about to mention him I thought he did well I actually thought he did better than the first one really I liked him equally as I did in the in the first one yeah I just there was a moment it's right around the time that they're going to shoot him which again I love the you have every opportunity to just shoot him in the head right now but you need to talk to him for a very long time well that's not something that's specific to Bollywood of course Bollywood does it too but there was a moment when he was doing that and I thought you know what Bowman is just freaking solid all the time all the I'm telling you revisit it revisit it especially now that you've seen him serious so many times what was it about that that annoyed you so much because I loved that character mostly the performance I love that character I like it I love that character I love that character I thought all the supporting people were fine well not the white actors but they no I'm talking the other ones but they were beautifully horrendous just I laughed out loud I thought five or six times I thought a lot of the action in the film was actually really convincing it was I think it was practical explosive practical effects most of the time as opposed to the VFX which I like better because it looks better on camera very good cinematography on the one-on-one hand-to-hand combat and good sound really good sound quality there were some moments I recognized even ambient noise that they added was really well selected and put together and I bet if I didn't have so much that I was thinking about and going through film editing was probably pretty darn solid too it was it was actually the technical sides of things was pretty darn good yeah if the the Don-1 shower cons Don-1 was like a a zero like it wasn't but this is a hundred points above that one in terms of overall filmmaking yeah it's a much better movie overall in a much more entertaining film agree which is what I want from a spy espionage heist-ish film yep because I mean I've seen Ocean's 11 I've seen the first Mission Impossible I don't I don't love any of those films I think they're fine they're I love the entertaining films obviously I've only seen first MI so it's not like I'm telling you up to snuff on them I believe if you watched all of the Mission Impossibles except to just avoid it like the plague I believe you would not only like the series no that's MI3 that's spectacular so I believe you would not only really like I like it as much as I like the James Bond franchise and that's saying a lot and it also I mean it would not surprise me if you got a little bit of a higher opinion of Tom Cruise no no absolutely no in terms of ranking them I this is the one that's the most entertaining unless you're going for if you like if you want action of course but if you just want laughs obviously you're going to the first Don at the original Big E Don oh yeah okay so we're using all three now yes right if you're if you're ranking all three but it's hard to because the first Don and this Don they're two very different films yeah it can't be like oh I want to watch some hilarious 70s comedy spy and then I also want to watch some hardcore action yes big enough films they're I don't there's they have the same name nothing else you know they got Don and Roma and they're not even you can compare obviously the remake but Don too is its own movie yeah obviously if you're comparing both single Don's I like Amitabh by a long shot a long shot better film yep for me 100% I don't know if it's better film cause I want to flaws in that film but I was much more fun entertaining film agreed in that film yep this one I mean if you're in the mood for an action film like I it's hard because obviously R is amazing right but it's like that's a completely different animal I feel oh it's a very different animal how many spy films have we seen two from India two war we have war we have these two Don's so that's three I'm thinking about would you well we've had TV well actually a lot of TV we just had Vikram yeah Vikram is Karthi I don't know if you does Love Hostel count I mean it kind of it's more of a thriller I guess yeah and so does I mean there's a couple of things that have it in it like article 15 is it's not an action spy thriller so you're talking like the specific spy thriller genre I don't know that we've seen very many at all I think you can count them on one hand probably yeah and I think the best ones are probably the ones that came out this year now Vikram and doesn't doom fall into that category yes doom does I don't know if we'll ever get to doom I'm scared of dooms so am I what about does Krish fall into that category Krish does yeah but there's reasons we haven't watched those yet isn't there we've just been a little wary just haven't gotten to them yet we've been a little a little shy of those well I think let's watch Kalank I think if we if we ever get to those which I don't know if we will we'll have to see but we have to go in the same way that we go into a Rokan spy film yeah this is and what about the spy film this is just for entertainment what about the spy film with isn't it Mahanl no it's Rajnikanth with all the guns and the it's 2.0 yeah I think that's right that's what it's called right yeah with the those 2.0 right we're talking about robot no 2.0 what's the movie that has Rajnikanth and Raya Rai and Rajnikanth at one point he's got the glasses on and he gets all of these machine guns that come out of him because he's a robot it's called robot is it called robot I thought it was called 2.0 I want to see that I heard it wasn't great though I think it's the most expensive Indian film ever though in terms of really how much it costs how much did it make I don't know I don't think it made so what do you guys think we should watch as far as like the next of a spy thriller Mission Impossible James Bond there are ones like Akshay has Airlift and yeah what happened to Airlift is it baby is it called baby I think no what are you talking about Akshay like a spy thriller I think those there's one that's called for him it's called Airlift and I think the other one's called the trailer for Airlift I think the other one's called baby obviously Salmon has a couple I guess but I think not crime thriller spy no because I think he Salmon is it Sultan Sultan Sultan I don't know I don't know which one's the spy I'm just thinking of stuff on the top of my head that I know that I think is spy but maybe it's not that does Mr. India count as a spy one because I think it does I guess it kind of does it gets very James Bondy it kind of does that's in there but but then there's also South remix of Don as well well well well I think Rajanakant plays Don what the freaking circus net really I think so I think it's Bila or something like that so why won't why don't we watch that next I don't know I don't know how good it is obviously we have access to it probably oh my goodness I want to see that but what if it's the exact same story as Don I'd like to see how they do it down there and see if it's a remake of Don compare it to the SRK remake and see who came out the head on the remake it's probably B well that's the original superstar yep I think we're about to get some a lot of really good spy stuff though we are we're gonna get in my seven I guess next next summer yeah why would you know about coming out well Pathan which is Shah Rukh Khan that's a spy yeah and then Ramashra that's a big spy movie big spy movie anyways you're done listening to us yeah anyways let us know what you thought about the film what should be our next Shah Rukh Khan film there's only ten more left yep that's it and then we're done with the whole SRK library that's a lie ah but anyways let us know what should be the next Shah Rukh Khan film we should watch down below