War

WAR seems to have just begun, here's to hoping for a better future without a sequel.

Hrithik and Tiger share a mentor-protege relationship in real life as well and it has been perfectly captured in the film. Hrithik is in his element here playing the experienced agent and Tiger adds the naive charm of a newbie to the proceedings. Watch the film for its world-class action and be prepared for the sequels to come down the line...

No one can stop you from watching this if you are a) a Hrithik/Tiger fan and b) if you're into deliciously bad action films. It's Kesari meets Face/Off meets all those generic Steven Seagal and Richard Gere films that weren't boring and sporadically stylized enough to keep you on your seat. Watch the trailer of the film here.

War is an ode to star power, which pits Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff together for the first time and capitalises on their famous idol-idoliser energy to draw us into a world of espionage, action and camaraderie...

If you are a Hrithik, Tiger fan and want to enjoy an action-packed spectacle of two good-looking men bruised and bleeding with guns and bullets giving them company, then 'War' is for you. Also, the twists and turns can boggle your brain but no I am not giving away any of the spoilers here!

War is a crowd-puller, but it isn't meant to further the cause of cinema. It will entertain you. But if you plan to take something away from a film, watch Joker instead.

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 there's nothing else to look up to.

War packs in a bit of everything. Chase sequences on supercars over snow-covered terrains, and also on sportbikes — zipping through cobblestone streets across Europe. Then, there are vehicles being tossed from the sky and off cliffs to make Rohit Shetty proud. And even the unarmed combat sequences include a jab, stab, and lockdown to tick all the boxes. But when the film's chief villain and India's most wanted happens to be called Ilyasi, the joke seems to be on us.

It's a win for an espionage film if it is written half-well, especially a Hindi one. War is victorious on that count. The much shorter first-half scores because it passes by quickly and doesn't feel like it was over an hour long. The longer second half has a lot more going on story-wise to keep you hooked. And this is despite some seriously patchy writing.

The overall excitement in the screenplay compensates for these flaws and the inordinately loud background score, especially if you are in an indulgent mood having accepted that in most departments War is conventional Bollywood.

If perfectly-timed stunts and explosions of souped-up cars can appease your soul, then give War a shot. Otherwise, it's merely a battle of the brawny boys with questionable brains. The real casualty? The viewers who feel the trauma of sitting through this crazy action misfire.

If War was always about its leading men, the duo manages to deliver some thunder in this piece of absolute blunder.  Go for War only if you root for Hrithik and/or Tiger.

War, a big spectacle film, is definitely worth a watch for the sheer joy of seeing this dream pair of Hrithik and Tiger on the silver screen.

'War' is the best silly-smart Hindi action film in a while...