Kill: An Explosive and Enjoyable Massacre Game (Review)

General brawl and ultra-violence on an Indian train: a somewhat indulgent actioner, but, my goodness, what a kick.

In the carriages of a night train, there are not a thousand and one ways to break people’s faces, once you put face to face two buddies who are members of an elite police commando and no less than thirty robbers ready to do anything to rob the passengers. In fact, the violence of the film is quite mind-blowing: as its name indicates, Kill doesn’t seem to trace much other than its trajectory as a borderline redneck action film, but in the genre, it places itself without any worries as the most effective contender for the title of best to act of the year (with great lines like: “yes, they’re going to come down… but it will be for their funeral”, or even “this idiot asked me to drop my gun, it landed in his skull”).

Nothing else, really? If we even take the time to breathe between two blows of schlass (the fight scenes evoke the best of The Raidthat’s to say the level), we first appreciate the performance of the charming Raghav Juyal: dancer and star of Indian TV, he is absolutely amazing as a bad bandit with a cruel and devastating charm. We can also realize that there is something to grasp on the self-destructive confrontation (as Raghav says to the hero who massacres his friends: “you are not a protector, you are a monster!”) that the film composes between the representatives of law and order, and the proletarian robbers – who all have great faces… Much more than a midnight movie stroking the crowd in the right direction, then.

Of Nikhil Nagesh Bhat. With Lakshya, Raghav Juyal, Tanya Maniktala… Duration 1h45. Released September 11, 2024