Brothers, despite its contrivances, leaves you choked more than once. How can it not, with all that unabashed emotional manipulation? Throwing in an item song, repeated flashbacks, and too many cutaways of an anguished wife (Jacqueline Fernandez), Malhotra lays it on thick to a premise already inherently melodramatic. He’s further Bollywood-izing a plot that’s already ‘too Bollywood’ to begin with. The result is a film that’s trying a little too hard.

Akshay Kumar, Sidharth Malhotra’s film uses a form of kinetic martial arts to foreground its story of two warring siblings, but it stays, at heart, a Karan Johar film.

Weighing 158 unbearable minutes, Brothers is nearly 600-times as long as the Rousey win — and not one-millionth as thrilling.

Karan Malhotra’s Brothers is not Warrior. It relies heavily on the formula-driven content. Having said that, Brothers still offers you some fantastic fight sequences and a matured Akshay Kumar. You can also consider it a new film rather than a Warrior remake and be happy about it.

Oho! But we’ve done this before. Many times. So many times. Family. Bichde bhai… Same-to-same. Ok-ok. Let’s do different. Make them Christian. Boxers. Ya! But how will audience samjho? Tattoos. Many. Very many. And Cross. Everywhere.

What you get is an earnest Khiladi sporting his graceful greys in a movie that’s too cosmetic, loud and exhausting to take notice.

It makes so much noise that any sensible point about brotherly bonding and filial fidelity that it might be trying to make is completely drowned out by the decibels. Take your earplugs along.

Brothers is supposed to be an action drama but it ends up being an action comedy. Characters cry here at the drop of a hat. That’s because three leading males have a lot of issues.

I don’t know what I disliked more, Sidharth’s incompetency to perform in a role that Tom Hardy completely nailed or the extremely loose plot that is a shoddier version of Warrior. Call for a DVD of Warrior and watch it! Unless over-the-top drama is your scene, you will not enjoy Brothers

Partly being a martial art film, by the time all the arm twisting, skull smashing and bone twisting is over, you are brain dead.

Watching Karan Malhotra’s ‘Brothers’ is like déjà vu. It’s like re-watching the worst of the ‘70s – this film is as cliché-ridden as it can be. It has it all – a drunken father jailed for killing his wife, sparring stepbrothers, token Muslim characters (who readily mouth Insha Allah) and dialogues that make the ears bleed. You can give ‘Brothers’ a complete miss, and you wouldn’t have missed anything at all.

There is in fact no story, nor any story-telling craft. However, if you have braved the first half, and are willing to sit through the next, and love some adrenalin rush, sans any connection with the story, the movie gets better.

Brothers is a series of solid fight scenes that’ll make you cringe in sympathy at their realism, thoroughly ruined by an amateurish attempt at drumming up family drama and tons of needless exposition. Filmmakers take the 2011 Hollywood mixed martial arts movie Warrior and instead of building upon it, they totally muddle it.

Brothers could have worked better with better editing and lesser of the forced melodrama. What it becomes is a lackluster piece of cinema despite some very hard work put in by the actors.

Making the soft hearted audience a bit teary towards the end, ‘Brothers’ wraps up on a positive note, well, yes the typical Bollywood style. It’s dragging climax makes you a little weary, and that is a major setback.

This monsoon weekend, go grab a ticket and watch some incredible acting with a hint of breathtaking fight sequences.

‘Brothers’ is a big disappointment. The easy, uninspiring, simple, obvious and boring remake of Hollywood’s ‘Warrior’ struggles to deliver as an action packed emotional family drama even after a terrific Akshay and reformed Sidharth. Still you can watch it if you are an Akshay, Sidharth die hard. Else take your call.

…films like Brothers need a certain amount of drama to accentuate the action. Such action to make sense in a film need an emotional hook too; else it will feel like you are watching a game on TV. But, this combination didn’t work here. All you can recommend it for is the fight sequences when the film is on TV.

Director Karan Malhotra has a unique ability. He can douse anything into a tub of glycerine and make even a movie about MMA into one about loving your parents. After all, it’s also about loving your producer.

If you are a die-hard Akshay Kumar fan, and enjoy wrestling matches, this movie might impress you. If not, you can definitely skip watching this one.

Brothers, despite being a powerful story, lost the plot in the telling. I suggest get a DVD of Warrior instead.

…despite the fact that the film gets a little bit stretchy in bits and parts, we are going for a two and a half stars for ‘Brothers’ since the three leading stars Akshay, Sidharth and Jackie carry the film quite well on their shoulders and also full marks to the realistic combat and training sequences. While there is nothing very different or special in the storyline of the film, it is still worth a watch, especially if you want to see Jackie Shroff in one of his best performances and if you are a die-hard fan of mixed martial arts.