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My only question to the film makers is, 'What was the reason behind making this story based in Dhaka or even Bangladesh?' India could have just been fine. I would have given it 10/10. But as a Bangladeshi native, I cannot but express my dissatisfaction about the way film makers gave less attention to the use of Bengali language in the film. Even the setting which was supposed to be Dhaka was not at all in Dhaka. There is no forest around Buriganga river that runs through Dhaka. The mistake was sticking like a sore thumb. The women, the people, the sign boards, the accents of Bangla slang were all wrong. It could have been an excellent work if they could do it properly. They were using Calcutta tongue not Dhakaia language.

This is was so disappointing.

All the 7 star is for my favorite actor Chris Hemsworth. I could have been proud for this movie as it was staged in Bangladesh. Only if it were a reality - they could have done it Gazipur district with lots of forest to play firepower. Or in Khulna by Sundarbans.

There is no way a car chase can be staged in Dhaka. LOL. There is no 'WAY' literally.

The movie is fun with all that shooting. But the problem is the movie digressed so many times from what it actually wanted to prove that I am having an ambivalence emotion right now.

First of, there could be another episode of this movie.

Now, I did not understand what the point was for the terror attack on the US soil. Arab blowing things up on US soil has become a very common thing in the US movies. I mean it gives such an unpalatable message that I have a very hard time digesting. Military action film always takes a wild turn to the Middle East as if there is no good people there. As a result mass paranoia is engulfing natural sense of logic. Just painting a group of people as Arabs/Muslims has become good business for the film producers. They are feeding on the hysteria of the audience- a common fear that Arabs/Muslims are bad. I only wish people would start reading unbiased history of the world- starting from the Colonial periods.

The second thing is the movie had a very great potential. Instead, the story teller wanted to put it through a metamorphosis and the end result was amorphous. To begin a turf war why would you need to retell a narrative where Arabs/Somalians had no function at all? Just to paint Arabs/Somalians/Muslims in another coat of black paint?

The movie had a few good dialogues there. It really looked good and I thought yes! this could bring out the bad side of politics. Might bring out a few members of the clandestine society who choose what to do with the Humans of the world, who love to play GOD so much. But no, nothing of that sort at all.

Then there was this one boy who had no introduction, just a few scenes, and WOW! the movie ends with him as if HE is the next BIG shot!!? What happened to the little girl?? What happened to the people who told the soldiers to turn against one of their own?

So many unanswered questions. It is like a first person shooter game gone bad.

Straight words: Monkeys can jump too, but they won't make a movie!!! Tiger Shroff's agility is commendable but just doing the same thing as Tony Jaa, is a bit too redundant and he was not as sharp as Tony. The movie was such a copy, it will put a photocopier in utter disgrace!!!

Fights had same old round house kicks and some, it seemed, figure skating moves, specially bouncing off of the wall was like the figure skating queen doing a jump in the air.

The story was a garbage. It was as if the producer got a man who can do a lot of kicks and so he thought why not throw in some paragraphs from here and there and voila!! There is this Baaghi movie!!! Tasteless!!! I won't recommend wasting 2 hours on this pile of cow dung. Just see a few trailers and you will enjoy what Shroff has to offer. No need to waste time.