-Written by Marty Coney.
An army commando must battle a family of bandits on a train to protect the ones he loves. He will be pushed to his limits and have to suffer before the train reaches its destination.
Kill is a Hindi-language action movie very reminiscent of the old-school action movies of the 80’s and 90’s. It's very light on plot but it doesn't need one. Kill is unabashedly an action movie that focuses on brutal hand-to-hand combat, with knives and hammers and anything else that is laying around to put down the bad guys. Director Nikhil Nagesh Bhat manages to entertain and keep you engrossed from the first minute to the last. Helped by fight choreographers Se-Yeong Oh and Parveh Sheikh, Kill takes you on an adrenaline-fueled, white-knuckle ride you won't forget in a hurry.
Our protagonist, Amrit (Lakysha), and his friend and fellow army commando Viresh (Abhishek Chauhan) are on a train to New Delhi with Amrit’s girlfriend's family when a group of bandits come aboard to rob the train. Amrit’s girlfriend Tulika (Tanya Maniktala) has a sister who is in a different cabin at the front of the train and asks Amrit to get her to safety. What follows is a non-stop fight to get to Tulika’s sister.
Lakysha, who is making his feature film debut, steals the show and should go on to be in a future Expendables movie after his performance in Kill. The fight scenes are so visceral and gory. All the action takes place in tight, cramped cabins with little room to move, with scared passengers getting in the way to make Amrit’s task even harder.
How Oh and Sheikh manage to pull off the set-piece fights is a testament to their hard work. With barely any room to move, never mind fight, the camera work is exceptional. We get right up close to the action and get to witness some truly brutal deaths. If we are not up close with the fighting in a toilet cubicle, we get wide shots of people climbing on the outside of the moving train. You don't get a second to take a breath.
Kill uses lighting to great effect and really lets you focus on the action that is on screen. The train is pristine clean at the beginning of the movie and the cabins are all brightly lit, and by the end every cabin is crimson red and the lights are flashing and broken with the only light coming from other cabins. One scene toward the end is like a horror movie with piles of dead bodies hung up in a cabin to block the bad guys from moving forward. Their only source of light is from a torch which gives Amrit a chance to take out a few more bad guys. And the music is also used to great effect. A mix of traditional Indian music mixed with dubstep really drives the tension home.
I said at the beginning of this review that Kill reminded me of older action movies but what it reminds me of the most is The Raid. If you are a fan of Gareth Evans’ tower block action movie I think you will love Kill.
Directed by Nikhil Nagesh Bhat.
Written by Nikhil Nagesh Bhat & Ayesha Syed.
Starring Lakysha, Abhishek Chauhan, Tanya Maniktala, Raghav Juyal, etc.
9/10 = DROP EVERYTHING AND WATCH IT NOW
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