Kill Movie Review: What happens when you introduce the “Snowpiercer” fight choreographer to the world of Indian genre filmmaking? It is a compelling martial arts film directed in Hindi by Nikhil Nagesh Bhat.
When Indian director Nikhil Nagesh Bhat slept off on a cross-country train voyage years ago, he woke up to find that the cars next to his had been looted by armed bandits, or “dacoits.” The heist wasn’t too severe to the point where it would have woken him up, but it did make the helmer wonder what a truly horrific train raid would entail. The movie “Kill,” in which a group of about forty robbers board a train to steal watches and phones from passengers, and then go all out after encountering two ruthless commandos, is the solution.
Kill Movie Review: A Train, Two Commandos, and 40 Thieves
“Kill” is as violent a movie as the nation has ever made, a startlingly gory action showcase from a genre that usually plays violence in a more cartoonish register. All things considered, “Overkill” would have been a better title given how seriously Bhat takes every confrontation and how he uses it to exact the greatest amount of revenge. It’s the kind of film where the audience bursts into cheers when handsome Amrit (Lakshya, star of “Porus”) breaks a hapless thug’s skull into dog food with a fire extinguisher, thus posing the question: Does this constitute “excessive” if the audience is clamoring for more?
