Kill
"Who kills like this? I killed four of your people...you finished off forty of my family!" - Fani
release year: 2024
genre: adventure
viewing setting: home Bluray 9/15/25
synopsis: Various people on a high-speed train have to deal with a gang of robbers.
impressions: The various people referenced above include two tough commandos, the woman who's involved with one of them, her family, and a whole bunch of innocent passengers. This gang is unusual; it seems to be a whole bunch of people who are mostly distant blood relatives of each other (a lot of uncles and cousins.) And they're not terrorists - this isn't Die Hard on a train in India. These guys are just there to take all the passengers' wallets and cell phones and get the hell off the train. They're also hypocritical in that they kill a lot of random innocent people without a second thought, but then when one of their own is killed they get all emotional and distressed. It's like, if you guys don't want to see your own relatives get killed, then don't go around killing other people first - you can't have it both ways! Anyway...based on the trailer, I thought this movie could be the next Raid or Sisu but I was wrong. It had the violence and the gore in fits and starts, but it lacked the nonstop, balls-out pace of those greater action classics. There would be a good fight scene and then the hero would get knocked out, or the perspective would shift to someone else, and the momentum would be lost. There were even a couple of points where the hero went into turbocharged fighting mode and I figured this was it, now he was going to mow through the trainful of bad guys and just kill them all...but it never reached that sustained level of mayhem. There were also some dumb behaviors by people (like not finishing off bad guys after beeating them, or in a couple cases letting them go.) So it seemed like this fell a bit short of what it could have been. Having said that...many of the fights were brutal and featured novel things like bashing a guy's head into a toilet so hard that the ceramic shattered, or putting a small bottle of lighter fluid into a guy's mouth and then lighting it. I guess all I wanted to see was a little more proactivity and better decisions on the part of some of the good guys.
acting: "Lakshya" is the main protagonist, who continues to fight on despite many injuries and beatdowns. Abhishek Chauhan is his fellow officer who also fights (though less.) Tanya Maniktala is the main guy's girlfriend, who tries her best in the tough situation. Raghav Juyal is the young punk bad guy, who had absolutely no regard for the lives of others and no cares about the effacts of his actions. Ashish Vidyarthi is the leader of the criminal gang. Parth Tiwari is a somewhat larger and tougher member of the gang of bad guys.
final word: Violent action film that suffered from some uneven pacing..
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