MOVIEmeter
SEE RANK
Up 7,736 this week

Luck (I) (2009)

4.7
Your rating:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X  
Ratings: 4.7/10 from 1,044 users  
Reviews: 15 user | 5 critic

An underworld kingpin instructs his honcho to recruit people endowed with 'Luck' from across the globe to take part in a series of games designed to test their 'Luck' factor, as gamblers around the world bet on them.

Director:

Writers:

(screenplay), (dialogue), 2 more credits »
0Check in
0Share...

User Lists

Related lists from IMDb users

a list of 424 titles created 17 Apr 2012
 
a list of 100 titles created 8 months ago
 
a list of 131 titles created 9 months ago
 
a list of 520 titles created 26 Oct 2011
 
a list of 103 titles created 7 months ago
 

Connect with IMDb


Share this Rating

Title: Luck (2009)

Luck (2009) on IMDb 4.7/10

Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.

Take The Quiz!

Test your knowledge of Luck.
Learn more

People who liked this also liked... 

Poseidon (2006)
Action | Adventure | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.6/10 X  

On New Year's Eve, the luxury ocean liner, Poseidon, capsizes after being swamped by a rogue wave. The survivors are left to fight for survival as they attempt to escape the sinking ship.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Stars: Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss
Colombiana (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.2/10 X  

A young woman, after witnessing her parents' murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin.

Director: Olivier Megaton
Stars: Zoe Saldana, Jordi Mollà, Michael Vartan
Sanctum (2011)
Action | Adventure | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.7/10 X  

An underwater cave diving team experiences a life-threatening crisis during an expedition to the unexplored and least accessible cave system in the world.

Director: Alister Grierson
Stars: Richard Roxburgh, Rhys Wakefield, Christopher Baker
Raavan (2010)
Action | Adventure | Crime
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.1/10 X  

A bandit leader kidnaps the wife of the policeman who killed his sister, but later falls in love with her.

Director: Mani Ratnam
Stars: Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Govinda
2012 I (2009)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.8/10 X  

An epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.

Director: Roland Emmerich
Stars: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Shaan (1980)
Action | Adventure | Crime
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7/10 X  

Shaan tells the story of DCP Shiv Kumar an honest, brave and upright police man. He live in the country with his wife, a daughter and two brothers Ravi and Vijay who are con men to the ... See full summary »

Director: Ramesh Sippy
Stars: Sunil Dutt, Shashi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan
The A-Team (2010)
Action | Adventure | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.8/10 X  

A group of Iraq War veterans looks to clear their name with the U.S. military, who suspect the four men of committing a crime for which they were framed.

Director: Joe Carnahan
Stars: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Biel
Action | Adventure | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5/10 X  

Arun Khanna is a spy for the Indian government whose aid is enlisted to stop ISI Chief Ishak Khan. Khan is trying to build a nuclear bomb with which he can liberate Kashmir from the Indians... See full summary »

Director: Anil Sharma
Stars: Sunny Deol, Preity Zinta, Priyanka Chopra
Dasavatharam (2008)
Action | Adventure | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.9/10 X  

An American Bio-Technologist must race against time and heavy odds to try and retrieve a deadly chemical in a vial.

Director: K.S. Ravikumar
Stars: Kamal Hassan, Asin, Mallika Sherawat
Ek Ajnabee (2005)
Action | Adventure | Crime
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.4/10 X  

Movie is a remake of the Hollywood movie Man on Fire (2004). Quite an effort to reproduce the movie with quite a different climax.

Director: Apoorva Lakhia
Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Arjun Rampal, Perizaad Zorabian
Prem Deewane (1992)
Action | Adventure | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5/10 X  

Radha (Pooja Bhatt) and Manohar (Vivek Mushran) love each other and want to get married, but Radha's dad (Ashok Saraf) does not approve of their marriage as Manohar comes from a poor family... See full summary »

Director: Sachin
Stars: Pooja Bhatt, Bharat Bhushan, Prem Chopra
Players (2012)
Action | Crime | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4/10 X  

Two thieves, a magician, a computer hacker, a wannabe actor and a explosives expert plan a robbery to fulfill the dream of Victor Braganza. Will they be successful or will destiny have something different for them?

Directors: Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla, Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla
Stars: Luna Rioumina, Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu
Edit

Cast

Credited cast:
...
Major Jabbar Pratap Singh
...
Karim Moussa
...
Ram Mehra
Ravi Kishan ...
Raghav Raghuvaran
Chitrashi Rawat ...
Shortcut
Shruti K. Haasan ...
Ayesha (as Shruti Haasan)
Snita Mehay ...
Angela
...
Lakhaan Tamaang
Rati Agnihotri ...
Mrs. Mehra
...
Major Pratap Singh's Wife (as Rupa Ganguli)
Srinivasa Rao Kota ...
Swami
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
John Leon Bennett ...
OB Van Director
Snehal Dabi ...
Jiten
Daya Shankar Pandey ...
Passport Agent
Manoj Rajdutt ...
Inspector Patil
Edit

Storyline

Born lucky, Karim Moussa takes to exploiting it instead of focusing on studies. Now a wealthy gambler, he decides to recruit about a dozen lucky people to participate in a deadly game of survival. His agent, Lakhaan Tamaang, recruits Ram Mehra - whose father killed himself after losing 25 Crores - and is about to lose everything he and his mom own, and may end up being arrested for robbing an ATM machine; Major Jabbar Pratap Singh - who needs money for his wife's treatment; a camel jockey, Shortcut, sold by her parents for Rs.15000/-, who wants to make it big in life; a returning player, Ayesha, who had already participated, and is back for more; a psychotic serial killer, Raghav Raghuvaran, who miraculously escaped the death penalty. All of the above, including others from different countries, must compete, kill each other, with the survivor netting 20 Crores Rupees in just 20 days. Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Plot Summary | Add Synopsis


Edit

Details

Country:

Language:

Release Date:

31 July 2009 (USA)  »

Filming Locations:


Box Office

Opening Weekend:

£86,635 (UK) (24 July 2009)

Gross:

£86,635 (UK) (24 July 2009)
 »

Company Credits

Show detailed on  »

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Color:

See  »
Edit

Did You Know?

Connections

References 13 Tzameti (2005) See more »

Soundtracks

"Khudaya Ve - Remix"
Written by Shabbir Ahmed
Composed by Salim Merchant and Suleiman Merchant
Performed by Salim Merchant and Suleiman Merchant
Courtesy of Super Cassettes Industries Limited (T-Series)
See more »

Frequently Asked Questions

This FAQ is empty. Add the first question.

User Reviews

 
This is an average movie
19 December 2009 | by (India) – See all my reviews

Now here's the thing about action films. Most of them aren't particularly smart, but you're willing to overlook that if they make for a dramatic and thrilling experience. The problem with Luck is that it's neither smart nor spectacular. Sanjay Dutt stars as Musa, a gambling kingpin who's made a fortune in human betting. His faithful henchman Tamang (played by Danny Denzongpa) is entrusted the job of travelling the world and recruiting the luckiest people he can find to participate in a Fear Factor-style series of dangerous challenges, while loaded gamblers place bets on them. Lured by the promise of a fat cash prize to the one who survives all challenges, a motley bunch of misfits – including Imran Khan, Mithun Chakraborty, Ravi Kissen, Shruti Haasan, Chitrashi Rawat, and a handful of your staple foreign extras from Colaba Causeway – volunteer to jump off helicopters and enter shark-infested waters. Borrowing his premise and key scenes quite liberally from a handful of films including Spanish thriller Intacto, French cult-favorite 13 Tzameti and Hollywood B-movie The Condemned, writer-director Soham Shah delivers a mangled mess of a picture that fails to engage because the characters are all stereotypes and you really couldn't care less if they lost their lives in those dangerous stunts.To be honest, I can think of many reasons why Luck is a dumb film, and chief among them is the fact that there's more bak-bak than dishoom-dishoom, even though it pretends to be an action-adventure. What's worse, every single character in Luck speaks alike, rattling off metaphors, using the third-person and generally dishing out the kind of filmi punchlines that went out in the eighties. The incredibly gifted Danny Denzongpa is saddled with the film's corniest lines including my personal favourite, a dialogue he delivers to a morose Imran Khan. It's priceless, and the film is packed with such gems. The action scenes are all designed to look so cool, there's no nail-biting tension or even a hint of realism when the characters risk their lives in those dare-devil stunts. In all fairness, only one sequence grabs your attention – the film's opening set-piece in which Sanjay Dutt and a handful of others run blindfolded across railway tracks, dodging oncoming trains is a scene to behold. Constructed from a screenplay that relies too heavily on coincidences to take the narrative forward, Luck is ultimately a tiring watch. Of the cast, only Ravi Kissen succeeds in making a real flesh-and-blood character out of his loosely written part, and Mithun Chakraborty and Chitrashi Rawat do the best they can with their half-baked roles. Imran Khan can't rise above the flawed material which doesn't allow him scope to do more than arch his brows, and camera-friendly newcomer Shruti Haasan delivers dialogue with deadpan expressions. Yet it must be said that at least each of them tries. Unlike Sanjay Dutt, who sleepwalks through his scenes again, without making the slightest visible effort to contribute anything of consequence to the film. Luck is often unintentionally hilarious for the clunky dialogue, and particularly for the ridiculous climax scene which is unquestionably the silliest you've seen in years. Indeed only a stroke of good fortune could save this one.


2 of 3 people found this review helpful.  Was this review helpful to you?

Message Boards

Recent Posts
AWFUL !! jeetrana
A Rip Off (13 Tzameti) k_kush
I liked it xEbOnYKiSsEsx
WARNING : Don't watch this movie sumeetindia
Subtitled matthew-doherty
Gallery of paparazzi pics of Sanjay Dutt doing stunts tashi-8
Discuss Luck (2009) on the IMDb message boards »

Contribute to This Page

Create a character page for:
?