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Kites

KITES (Anurag Basu). 130 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (May 21). For venues, trailers and times, see Movies. Rating: N


Kites is an improvement on your average Bollywood fare, but that’s not much of a compliment.[rssbreak]

This bombastic, action-heavy romance earnestly tries to be a Tarantino-style homage to genre films. And there’s something fun, in a pathetic sort of way, in how it ends up being like a Tony Scott chase movie, complete with ADD-editing and a half-dozen vehicles performing aerial somer saults.

Indian mega-hunk Hrithik Roshan stars as a Vegas hustler who falls in love with a Mexican gold digger (Bárbara Mori). She happens to be engaged to a mobster’s trigger-happy son, so their love – which seems based purely on musical montages – sends them on the run with cops and bad guys in hot pursuit.

The fact that Rush Hour director Brett Ratner has “remixed” Kites to be 50 minutes shorter (a version that opens next week) shows how much of this exhausting movie can be lifted right out.

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