Chocolate - Dark & Bitter..

Good mystery movies are indeed like chocolate, leading you halfway to god, and leaving you wanting for more. But it appears that the director of 'Chocolate" has taken the tag line "Deep dark secrets" or something to that effect seriously - so seriously that he even leaves somethings as secrets when the movie is over.

An ambitious attempt, along the lines of the classic 'heist' movies, Chocolate does a damn good job right till the end. But alas, instead of the usual endgame where the director or the script writer reveals how the clever thieves got away with it all, there is an abrupt ending, leaving the poor 'multiplex viewer with the average IQ' (to whom this is clearly meant) in a lurch - too many questions unanswered, too many unexplained twists. For eg - what happened on the bloody ship, how did they get caught? Of course, this might be the devilish, mother of all twists where the director is having the last laugh, but I am sure he would have been feeling even better if he was doing so, all the way to the bank.

Quite slick though.

The frequent & forced references about sex, looks more the product of a "what-the-hell-I've-anyway-got-an-adult-certificate-i-might-as-well-justify-it" kind of thought than anything else.

But my sincere thanks to the director for sparing us the now famous "hot lips" Emraan in action. Suniel shetty, as usual delivers his dialogues as best as he can, inspite of the upper & lower jaws being sealed shut by the chewing gum that he has been chewing ever since his third movie. It does give him an interesting accent though. (I have nothing against sunil shetty, its just that I am in a smart-ass kind of mood).

To sum it up, the movie is like a wild ride in a dark alley in London, where around every other corner lurks an item number.

I still dont like dark chocolate but there are enough people who do.