Attack: Part 1

"We know exactly how things will pan out, no strain on the brain. Everything is straight-forward, no complicated characters, no morally ambiguous situations."

"A sci-fi-led story about a super soldier out to save the nation in its darkest hour."

"John Abraham's Attack is Bollywood's new-age action entertainer, a thoroughly enjoyable experience and a complete cinematic package. Director Lakshya Raj Anand introduces a new style to the genre that in Hindi films has long been overshadowed by the South Indian cinema-inspired fight sequences. The second half is Attack's stronger suit with fast-paced editing and novel camera angles that breeze through while keeping you on the edge."

"John Abraham as India's super-soldier rises from Satyameva Jayate debacle"

"The technical finesse is impressive but the story and the screenplay needed to be worked on more. The plot is heavily borrowed from such diverse sources as RoboCop (1987), Die Hard (1988), Universal Soldier (1992) and Olympus Has Fallen (2013). While the action sequences are world class and John Abraham delivers on all fronts, the film suffers from a poorly constructed narrative that makes the situation too easy for the hero."

"You are promised an action film; you get an action film. The action is slick, even if a tad monotonous by the end."

"John Abraham is impressive in Attack. Sadly, the story is not. But what lets him down is the story and the visual effects. It's disappointing that the makers have not gone all out when it comes to VFX, as the movie is basically about AI."

"This time he not only acts but even gives the story idea. It is literally every cinemagoer who watches one film and pens an imaginative amateurish story in his/her diary in their adolescent years. But John is decades old in the industry and this is not the standard we expect."

"Attack was a huge potential missed with choppy editing and lazy writing. What could have been a suave and sleek action thriller, turned merely into just another film on the block. The film, instead of feeling like a coherent whole, was a patchy journey."

"Whatever might be the measures taken by an earlier John Abraham film, there seems to be a renewed bloodlust in Attack, that's actively trying to court the 'masses' of Uri and The Kashmir Files"

"With Action, he aims for level 2... and doesn't disappoint. Taut and fast-paced, the action choreography is closer to the stuff that Hollywood offers and the electric background score provides reason for the adrenaline glands to make their presence felt."

"John is often credited for carrying a film on his shoulders, however, with Attack, the actor and debutant director Lakshya Raj Anand took this a bit too seriously, as John, as a 'super soldier' is literally the single man out there, killing all the bad men."