• Rachit Gupta
    Rachit Gupta
    Filmfare

    6

    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…

  • 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!

  • Bollywood Life
    Bollywood Life
    Bollywood Life

    7

    WAR is that film that is perfect for a mid-week holiday. It has enough to keep you talking about it for the next couple of days. And ladies, if you start fantastising about Hrithik Roshan once again, do not blame us. Those gleaming biceps are lustworthy and how.

  • 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 a paisa-vasool action entertainer which has style as well as enough twists and turns to keep the viewers engrossed. At the box office, the extended weekend, dazzling action, stunning international locales and stylish execution will ensure mammoth footfalls for the film.

  • 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.

  • 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 male leads, separated by a couple of generations and united by their ability to land punches and execute pirouettes without breaking a sweat, set the screen on fire. Fortunately for War, there is barely a scene without either of them.

  • Kunal Guha
    Kunal Guha
    Mumbai Mirror

    5

    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.

  • Powered by two loose-limbed and resolutely stone-faced male leads, Hrithik and Tiger, War is all style and no substance.

  • IANS
    IANS
    Sify

    4

    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.

  • Uday Bhatia
    Uday Bhatia
    LiveMint

    -

    ‘War’ is the best silly-smart Hindi action film in a while…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • IANS
    IANS
    Mid-Day

    5

    Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff share fantastic chemistry, but War isn’t half as fun as what the trailer promised

  • 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 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…

  • DNA Web Team
    DNA Web Team
    DNA India

    6

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

  • Namrata Joshi
    Namrata Joshi
    The Hindu

    -

    Despite there being nothing new and everything predictable about it, War is slick and smart and keeps the audience engaged and absorbed. What irks is the nth iteration of a Muslim trying to prove his loyalty for Bharat. The good Muslim shoved in to balance out the global Islamic terror. Why do it so needlessly and thoughtlessly when the film is anyhow successful enough in its larger aim of providing “entertainment, entertainment, entertainment”?

  • Shubhra Gupta
    Shubhra Gupta
    Indian Express

    4

    The chief trouble with War is that all the space is divvied up between Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff, that the poor baddies don’t really get a chance.

  • Hindustan Times
    Hindustan Times
    Hindustan Times

    -

    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.

  • Rachit Gupta
    Rachit Gupta
    Times Of India

    6

    On the back of films like Hrithik’s Dhoom 2 and Tiger’s Baaghi 2, War is a decent addition to both actors’ action film legacy. But this high-profile bang bang show is at best, popcorn entertainment for action movie buffs.

  • Tiger Shroff and Hrithik Roshan make the perfect pair –almost Batman and Robin-like– with Shroff’s earnestness and admiration a good foil to Roshan’s wiser ways.

  • Both Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff fully commit to the action, bringing swag to the big stylish sequences and a visceral energy to the one-on-one punch-ups in the movie.