Kill

A film a little too pleased with its own ultraviolence. Still, genre fans will admire the ceaseless mayhem of this rare Indian entry to the carnage canon.

After a groan-inducing 15 minutes of exposition, “Kill” lets go of all that baggage to become an outright blast while making a convincing argument for Lakshya becoming our next big action star.

The fight scenes are extremely well choreographed, filmed and edited, but they're so relentless in their non-stop pacing that the viewing experience becomes numbing.

It's a splendidly overcooked mix of heart-torn melodrama romance, and stabby, punch action... almost everyone gets punched and stabbed at least once, and they usually keep going. It moves like a bullet.

Kill lives up to its name, and then some: this is a breathless, ferociously gory action film, on a level rarely seen before in Indian cinema.

Manipulative to the max, “Kill” is dizzyingly impressive and punishingly vicious.

Bhat relishes in the mayhem, and I guess it’s “playful” enough most of the time to be more entertaining than off-putting.

Brian Vernel, Calum Ross and Daniel Portman do good work embodying the differing character traits of the brothers, but it's flashback scenes of Paul Higgins as the chilling patriarch that strike terror into the proceedings.

Resorts to the most tired, risible, dated trope for providing motivation to the male protagonist – fridging the girlfriend.

Nikhil Nagesh Bhat's latest film delves into a dark and bloody narrative with a simple plot. A train turned into a battlefield, where revenge and violence intertwine with total brutality. Full review in Spanish.