How? Why!?

Rating: 1/10 (12 November 2014)

How? Why?! are some of the questions that come to mind when I watched Happy New Year (HNY from hereon). There is a plot, yes, a plot made out of pieces from a lot of Hollywood heist movies that I have watched and loved. And there's a lot of Shahrukh Khan; not his acting mind you, his acting part of the brain seems to have turned off the moment Farah Khan said, "Action!" in every scene he's in and he turns wooden.
Also, did you really have to have a throwback to every movie SRK was in before HNY to make this thing click? The premise was outrageous. The acting was bad and emulative of Hollywoood counterparts that you find in the movies this copied from. And contrary to everybody's opinion, the only thing I liked about this movie was Abhishek's acting (except for his snake dance!); for me, it was his facial expressions and his comedic timing actually worked!
All in all, a failed attempt which still made millions in spite of its flaws (a lot of them!), bad acting, and bad casting!!
One last thing - MAJOR SPOILER AHEAD - if Sonu Sood's character is capable of blasting a perfect, round hole on top of the vault, couldn't they have just gotten through there? As far as I know the "laser wall" only stops people from getting to the vault. Once you get to the vault, you need to know the exact "turns" (don't forget your stethoscopes!!) to get into it. But once you get in, it's all yours! So, why not just blast a hole on top of the vault and get the diamonds since nothing actually seems to be protecting the vault after all these hurdles!? Just my thought, although I may have missed something about this in my viewing because I had to turn my brains off after about five minutes into the film.