 Jai Hind. Hey, welcome back to our stupid reaction, it's up Corbin. And it's just me today. And today I'm doing a movie review of the new 2024 film, Viter, the highly anticipated Orythik Roshan and Dupika Paragon film directed by Siddharth Anand and written by him as well, the big action Indian Air Force film. Rick couldn't be here and also this is not really his cup of tea in terms of style of film as you guys have probably seen in the past of big Massey Bollywood films. But he couldn't make it today, so it's just me today. Sorry for Rick fans out there. It will just be my stupid opinions today. But since this just came out, we are going to do a non-spoiler review just to not spoil it for anybody. So if you haven't watched it, please go watch it and come back. It's in theaters now, as you all know. But let's see, let me get the IMDb up here. So yeah, I just walked out full of patriotism. I had heard before the Stupid Babies and I had seen some people like reviews post on Twitter and stuff. Mixed reviews, some loving the film, some really not liking the film for whatever reason. And I can see both as to why. And like I said, I would lean towards Rick probably not liking this film. I can't say for him. Obviously, I don't know. So I can't speak for him in that regard. But it has enough of the elements of stuff that he doesn't normally enjoy. But I think overall I did enjoy this film. In comparison to what I went with the expectations for. So I compared it to his other films, War and Patan. Those were my expectations. We're somewhere in that middle. And I think that's a pretty good expectation to go in with because I think it falls somewhere kind of in the middle. I think this film is a lot more grounded than both of those films. Not to say this is a grounded film at all. Don't confuse that, please. Just in those two, Patan being a big, massy film to the full extent. I think the first half of that was really entertaining and a lot of fun, but big and massy. War has Rithic and kind of just mindless action, not much story there. I think this one kind of has more story than both. And less massy stuff, but still massy stuff. But more grounded in both of those. And kept you engaged. I think a big factor in that was Rithic. I love Rithic's screen presence. Obviously he's an extremely sexy man. But he really grounds it from, especially in the beginning, some like, I don't want to say lack of a better term, cringy dialogue between characters. And it felt like almost a high school film. And I'm like, aren't you guys like adults in the Air Force? What is going on here? It settled down in that regard. But it still had a lot of, but he was, I think, the biggest factor in that. His screen presence, his charisma, his chemistry with Deepika was all really palpable. And obviously you just want a root for Rithic because you can see so much behind his eyes and there's just so much going on all the time. And so that's what really keeps you engaged. Deepika as well. When I heard that this film was going on, I was like, okay. So we're going to get war, but then you have Rithic and Deepika. And so you know your performance is going to be good. And that's true. Both performances are good. And kind of what keep you kind of engaged. So I thought both of them did a very good job. I think it was something I was very surprised by and something because in the trailer, I was concerned that the CGI would be a big distraction of this film. And it wasn't. And so that's great. There were a few moments that I was like, okay, that's not as good as some of the other moments are in terms of CGI, but by no means was a distraction. So I thought the editing and the VFX team did a very good job in this of taking something that's never been done in Indian cinema in terms of an Air Force film, which is hard to do because it's almost all CGI, right? I thought they did a very good job in making it not be a distraction. And obviously I'm spending a fraction of what Top Gun Maverick would have spent. And I have heard comparisons of Top Gun Maverick and the first Top Gun to this. I don't see it. Like the story is nothing like it. If you do an Air Force film with a big headed pilot, you're going to get comparisons. I understand that. Yeah, so I don't really get the comparisons to Top Gun at all. I don't think that's an issue at all. Is this film like incredibly generic in terms of like its plot? Yeah. Yeah, it is. The stereotypical villain. Everything kind of falls in place that how you think it would. Outside of new to Indian cinema, yes, there's some new stuff in terms of what this does for the Indian Air Force film kind of stuff, in VFX done, that's new. But in terms of story, no, not new. This is a full-on commercial entertainer that kind of goes over the same plot beats. And so, yeah, if you're not into, it's not as nasty as Bhutan at all. But if you're not into mass films with heavy levels of, I don't know the word that people call it patriotism, it's very specific to Indian cinema in terms of how much they love their patriotic and the patriotism in the film. This has a lot of it, which I don't mind. That's what it was going for. And so I don't fault it for that. Some people do. I've heard a lot of complaints about, you know, people with how they feel about that in films. But the story is also different for me. It's just on subtitles. It might sound different in Hindi. Don't know. So but it is incredibly generic in terms of like, if you're like, oh, does this have any unique like plot points? No. Is it more is the story? It's kind of a double-edged short. Is the story better than Bhutan and war? Yes. It's still not like this insanely amazing plot story at all. It's just better than those because each of those were going for different things. That was just going for mindless action, war. And SRK was going for like celebrating Shabu Khan and really messy, messy stuff. This one, I thought the story was kind of simple, almost similar to the Tiger films. Especially the earlier ones in that aspect, a little more patriotism than those. But similar in that story style. Some of the supporting actors didn't love. It is a mainstream Hindi commercial film. So you kind of got to take its lumps with it in terms of what you can get. I think the dialogue did them no service in terms of like the supporting actors and what they were told to do, which is where I think a lot of the issues Rick would have had. Like I said, I can't really speak for him. But I think a lot of his issues stem from dialogue and stuff in that nature that would bother him a lot and bother other people. I think a lot of the action fight scenes were some of the most engaging with either where they were in the pilot seat or hand to hand combat. I think there was very well done engaging direction done for the fights. So I thought the stunt coordinator did a very good job there. I think the film could have been cut down. It's 240 something, right? I think I think you could have cut it down to at least 220 just to make it snappier. I always think that though. You don't want to draw it out. But I thought the chemistry between not only of the Rithik and Topeka, gorgeous people, hard to not be creating that. But Anil Kapoor, his chemistry with Rithik was also very nice, another really good actor. So that was lovely to see. If I was to gauge a film in between Patan war and this, war might have the best action, Patan, the first half was just so fun. But in terms of overall, it's hard to say. This might be this director's best that I've seen. Still not my full cup of tea in terms of like genre of films. If I was to give it a grade, maybe like a six out of 10, still passing just and it was entertaining. I just sometimes just I wish for more sometimes. From my films, even though the point of this film, I think was just for a patriotic commercial entertainer. You can't fault it for what it was trying to be. It's just not everybody's cup of tea and I get that. I think Indians will probably get a lot more of it than a random white dude in America will because of the patriotism factor. But overall, I enjoyed it. I don't I don't regret going to see it. I thought it was a good time with flaws in it, not for everybody. But you guys can let me know what you think of the film. If you enjoyed it, if you didn't like it, if you what why am an idiot and anything else I need to know down below.