
War Movie Review: Yet Another Addition To â âNot Every Good Looking Movie Is A Good Movieâ
War Movie Review Rating: 2.5/5 Stars (Two and a half stars)
Star Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Tiger Shroff, Ashutosh Rana, Vaani Kapoor
Director: Siddharth Anand
War Movie Review: Yet Another Addition To â âNot Every Good Looking Movie Is A Good Movieâ
Whatâs Good: Hrithikâs style & Tigerâs action â the two out the four pillars of the film, rest of the two â story & dialogues are sadly hollow
Whatâs Bad: Depends on what are you watching this movie for, if youâre watching it for a good story then your bad, if not then mine!
Loo Break: When Tiger isnât performing any stunts & when Hrithik isnât setting up the screen on fire with his presence
Watch or Not?: Only if youâre craving to watch good locales & action on a big screen, keep your expectations limited
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As the trailer suggested, War is a story about an agent, from Indian Intelligence, named Kabir (Hrithik Roshan) going rogue for the reasons best known to him. His protege Khalid (Tiger Shroff) gets the mission of shooting Kabir on the spot. A flashback takes us two years ago from the present day to build up the bromance between Kabir & Khalid. There itâs revealed that Khalid is the son of a traitor who was killed by Kabir.
Khalid joins the intelligence just to clean up the mess his father created for his family. He gets into the team with Kabir, earns his respect by fighting some bad guys and taking a bullet for him (thatâs a must). This brings us back to the present day in this forced non-linear storyline. Khalid has to find Kabir whoâs killing some major Government employees, and ask him why heâs doing all this. Why is he doing all this? Your guess is as good as the predictable twists in the movie.
War Movie Review: Yet Another Addition To â âNot Every Good Looking Movie Is A Good Movieâ
War Movie Review: Script Analysis
I donât understand if youâre getting 100s of crores to make a movie, how hard it is to put a solid script on the place? War suffers from a similar loop of âwhat the audience wants to seeâ and âwhat kind of films makers are creatingâ. If the creators will keep on creating ordinary scripts laced with style, the audience will have to settle on the mediocre content. Itâs in the times when we have talents waiting to get explode. I know itâs not a childâs game to scale a film on such a huge scale, but I also know our audience deserves way better than this.
When youâre calling the film a âwarâ, why to show bromance between the leads? You either pit them against each other without any mercy or call the movie as âWarânâerrâ Brothers. Not comparing, but the story of this yearâs Hobbs & Shaw is miles ahead and thatâs how you treat a bromance. If youâre hanging on a thin thread at the scripting level, at least make sure to have some punchy dialogues. But, Abbas Tyrewalaâs lines are satisfactory at the best. If you remove the BGM from some scenes, youâll see how this is a love story between Hrithik and Tiger.
War Movie Review: Star Performance
Hrithik Roshan is, without any doubt, the most good-looking guy in Bollywood right now. Heâs stylish, heâs confident and has a different aura around him in this film. From his walk to the way he winks, Hrithik is very convincing in his role.
He is brilliantly aided by Tiger Shroff, and we all already know how good heâs at the action sequences. But, still, he surprises with those moves and will garner many âoh wowsâ. As far as acting is concerned, itâs as usual pretty ordinary but a step ahead is always good.
Vaani Kapoorâs role is as short as Shahid Afridiâs contribution to the 2011 Cricket World Cup. Sheâs doing Trapeze and lazy dancing despite being such an energetic dancer, thatâs where the makersâ vision lacks. Ashutosh Rana is wasted as a supporting character. He gets no scope to display his acting skills.
War Movie Review: Direction, Music
Siddharth Anand does this second time in a row after Bang Bang! Mind-blowing locales, brilliant action, superlative cast but no story. No major complaints with Siddharth Anand as the director, because the blame is on Siddharth Anand the writer. I loved the bridging shots he has used to build an impact. But nothing stays with you because of the ordinary narrative.
Background score by Sanchit Balhara and Ankit Balhara is a perfect mix of mass and class. It goes extremely well with the action scenes pumping up the required adrenaline rush. I just wonder why not many makers are considered Balhara brothers for background score? Theyâre gems waiting to be explored. Jai Jai Shiv Shankar is a delight to watch on screen, whereas Ghungroo is good just because of Vaaniâs presence.
War Movie Review: The Last Word
All said and done, War is a timepass watch and nothing more than that. Hollywood feeds us such movies on a regular basis & if you just want to see how Bollywood has achieved that, go for it. Watch it for the action & style because thereâs nothing else to look up to.
Two and a half stars!
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