You won't be disappointed!

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

I am actually surprised to see that the film has such a low rating. This film is not as bad as I expected it to be. Agreed it is cheesy at times, melodramatic and illogical at places but the film packs some wonderful action scenes, excellent production values, lush locales and some decent twists. The pace of the film is slow in the first hour but the second hour, which is more directly lifted from "The Italian Job", is fast and leaves no space to think.Abbas-Mustan's previous film "Race" was a box office success and it was a decent watch. The same is the case with "Players". They have not changed their style of screenplay and storytelling. The only field they have improved in is the production values, which is too good this time. The story has its share of twists, some from the original, and some Abbas-Mustan's own trademark ones. The leading lady turns out to be a villain much like "Race".There are many plot-holes, unnecessary justifications, some illogical twists, horribly bad acting, and senselessly melodramatic scenes yet "Players" is an enjoyable watch. The action sequence on the train and the car chase sequence filmed in Wellington are outstanding. The editing in these scenes is very good. The background score by Saneep Shirdorkar was equally good. Despite having watched "The Italian Job", I enjoyed "Players", even if not thoroughly.Pritam has had a rocking 2012 which started with "Players". The actual good songs were "Jhoom Jhoomta Hun" (the two male versions) and "Dil Ye Bekarar" but they were not used in the film at all! Rest of the songs are above average and in no way Pritam's good ones. Abbas-Mustan repeat their work again and again with no variety at all. Their direction is not at all up to the mark.Of the actors, it is only Johnny Lever who impresses even in his three scene role. Neil Nitin Mukesh is fair but he could have pulled it off a lot better. Bipasha Basu is the same seductress with a dark side but she is watchable. Rest are all irritating. Sonam Kapoor should ideally retire from movies. Abhishek Bacchan is no good. Omi Vaidya gets some comic lines, and that's about it."Players" is a time-pass watch on the whole but the tremendous budget seems like a waste in the end.

I will give this movie 5 stars because I really enjoyed this movie until Interval....When I went to see this movie I was very open minded because of the cast and director duo and I was very impressed by the twist and turns writers added to this movie inspired by original Italian Job (One of my favorite heist movie) however I don't know what happened to writers imagination after first major heist pulled by top players in the world....It seems first half of the movie written by professional writers and second half written by spot boys in Bollywood industry.This could have been one of the best heist movie in the Bollywood history but they just wanted viewers to enjoy meals and drinks in Interval and go home laughing about same old bad Indian Imagination for ending movies and making the hero smarter than villain.

The best film Mastan Duo, ever made was "Humraaz." Even though it was a copy of another movie, it had some great song&dance music by Himesh R. and acting by Bobby Deol and Amisha Patel. The Duo have lost the touch or they are trying to cater to the front benchers with comedy interludes by Omi Vaidya (it is question of who is more annoying him or the Lever guy) and the ever intruding and obnoxious Johnny Lever, who breaks into incessant laughter seeing a cell phone being used. The beginning is disjointed with a song&dance with Abishek and the usual array of Anglo Saxon spare dancers found in the back lot of any Mumbai Studio these days. This was out of place in the movie and the back ground effect was good but the music was horrible. No one does any acting except for Neil Nitin Mukesh. If my memory serves me well "Italian Job" was an incredible thriller, that Mustan Duo have copied poorly, to appease their favorite audience-the front benchers (the kind who think Johnny Lever is the greatest comedy actor since Mehmood.) This movie would have worked if the cast was all in the same caliber-serious and mature actors. One seducing dance to drug the General (this guy provides more comedy than Omi and Johnny) would have been fine, since this is still Bollywood and Bips needs to keep her gyrating and seducing skills, however the formulae of trying to appease both the front bencher and the elite audience does not work anymore. Majority of viewing audience have graduated from this low brow comedy. As far as Sonam Kapoor, how many movies does it take to realize that this woman can't act? The movie is disappointing and I don't care how much money was spent on foreign locations (the train scene was well done and the cinematography and sound are always ace in Indian movies.) I am not impressed that this was the first movie to be shot in North Pole or other dubious claims. The casting is bad with immature actors and unneeded comedians, lousy editing, silly dialogs and the direction is not what is to be expected from Mastan Duo. I do feel this movie is twenty times better than "Don 2" where we can see some handsome actors as opposed to this Filthy and ugly looking banchod from Filthystan.

I usually find myself inspired to review movies that compel me and in a way, Players did compel me, but for the wrong reasons. This movie is simply Terrible! It's so terrible that the word 'terrible' has been replaced by 'Players' in the Oxford Dictionary! The consistency is beyond poor and slack. When Sonam Kapoor is chatting with Abhishek Bachan, she is talking to him through a webcam in her car while he is on his phone chatting with her in the traditional way, phone to ear. How has she got him on a webcam then? How is he not aware he is on a webcam? Why is he talking in to a phone if they are talking through a computer? You may think i'm nit-picking but then there is the scene of the gold heist. Two trains running parallel to each other and Abhishek Bachan has a fight with two Russian soldiers and manages to pull them out of the train and drops them behind him. Logic would suggest they land under the wheels of the train running parallel to the 'Gold Train' but no.....they land comfortably in some snow. In the following shot, there is NO SNOW between the trains! Still nit picking? OK, when they manage to steal the bars of gold, packed by 10 or 12 in a packet, they handle them more like chocolate bars rather than gold bars. At one point, they carry the packages with ONE HAND! If you aren't finicky on the consistency of a movie or the lack there of, then bring some Nachos when you watch this movie. That way you can enjoy the cheese that oozes off the screen! Just be ready to choke yourself when Neil Nitin Mukesh starts talking to his home computer, 'baby'!Even new comers Sikander Kher and Omi Vaidya, the bright spots, couldn't save this blatant copy of the Italian Job. In fact, you couldn't even call this 'The Poor Man's Italian Job.' It's more like a Leper stricken Fakir's Italian Job! The ONLY good thing about Players, was that it ended! Abysmal!