Brothers Movie Review
Reviews Counted: 12
Positive:4
Neutral :1
Negative : 7
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Ratings:2.5/5 Review By: Rajeev Masand Site:CNN IBN
Brothers, despite its contrivances, leaves you choked more than once. How can it not, with all that unabashed emotional manipulation? Throwing in an item song, repeated flashbacks, and too many cutaways of an anguished wife (Jacqueline Fernandez), Malhotra lays it on thick to a premise already inherently melodramatic. He’s further Bollywood-izing a plot that’s already ‘too Bollywood’ to begin with. The result is a film that’s trying a little too hard.I’m going with two-and-a-half out of five.
Ratings:2/5 Review By: Anupama Chopra Site:Film Companion
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Ratings:-- Review By:Komal Nahta Site:Zee ETC Bollywood Business
On the whole, Brothers, a mixed martial arts film, may carry mixed reports but it will ultimately prove to be a paying proposal for all concerned. It will do good business in multiplexes and single-screen cinemas, and in ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’ class centres. The national holiday tomorrow will see collections take a huge jump.
Ratings:1.5/5 Review By: Sukanya Verma Site:Rediff
Brothers should've picked the flamboyant, over-the-top WWF in place of MMA. It's more in sync with Malhotra's masala aesthetics and the memory of Akshay Kumar taking on Undertaker in Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi still delights. What you get is an earnest Khiladi sporting his graceful greys in a movie that's too cosmetic, loud and exhausting to take notice.
Ratings:3/5 Review By: Srijana Mitra Das Site:TOI
Brothers revisits Bollywood's 'Ma' obsession, offering action, adrenalin and abs too.However, its angst could have hit a much harder punch - for when blood sours, it explodes.But Brothers, despite mouthing, 'Har sport mein thora drama toh hota hai', only skims that dramatic surface. It could've dived in deeper.
Ratings:1.5/5 Review By: Raja Sen Site:Rediff
The entire first half, in fact, is unwatchable. I must here apologise. I may here have implied that the post-intermission portion is any good. It isn’t, though the good news is that after such a horrendous first-half, it does at least feature some spiffy camerawork and well-choreographed action sequences. The bad news is that this is all the second half has, as we go through MMA fight scene after MMA fight scene till we get to the MMA fight scene we knew was coming all along: one where two brothers glare and fight and cry ad nauseam.
Ratings:1.5/5 Review By: Saibal Chaterjee Site:NDTV
For all the hoopla, Brothers, in going for the jugular, punches well below its weight. It makes so much noise that any sensible point about brotherly bonding and filial fidelity that it might be trying to make is completely drowned out by the decibels. Take your earplugs along.
Ratings:3/5 Review By: Shubha Site:Mid-day
If merciless and relentless crunching of bones gets your adrenalin pumping, this film is designed for you. The second half is where all the action literally is. The two brothers vie for the MMA championship and end up facing each other in the ring at one point, ending in a fantastic finale. The film actually belongs to the two brothers. Akshay Kumar and Sidharth Malhotra
Ratings:2/5 Review By: ShubraGupta Site:Indianexpress
‘Mukkas’ and mush can go together, but not when the latter threatens to drown the former. When the tough get going, audiences are happy to toughen it out too. Here we see the brothers go at each other, limbs snapping at each blow, and all we can hear is ‘bhaiyyaaa’.
Ratings:3/5 Review By: Hungama Site:Bollywood Hungama
On the whole, BROTHERS is a huge letdown on the account of its slow pace and lack of emotional connect. At the box office, the movie will enjoy huge footfalls over the weekend due to Independence Day Holiday and lack of credible opposition at the cinema halls. The real struggle for the film however will start from Monday onwards, which would turn out to be the deciding factor of the fate of the film.
Ratings:3/5 Review By: Priyanka Prasad Site:Filmibeat
This movie is for both family and youth! Although the youth would enjoy it a tad bit more as Akshay and Sidharth give you one of the best Bollywood action scenes ever. Brothers makes for one great weekend watch, that you just ought to see! So don't miss, book your tickets right away!
Ratings:2/5 Review By: Lokesh dharmani Site:Masala
Brothers was made by putting the DVD of Warrior in a Xerox machine. Alas the paper got stuck, the Xerox machine's ink expired and what came out was a bad, melodramatic, manipulative, painfully long version of the original. The first half establishes the characters. The second half is like a WWF YouTube that never ends! It’s an MMF fight, a sport I don’t know much about Brothers, despite being a powerful story, lost the plot in the telling. I suggest get a DVD of Warrior instead.
Name: Brothers
Synopsis:Two estranged, street-fighting brothers (Akshay Kumar, Sidharth Malhotra) square off against each other in a mixed martial arts tournament.
Release Dates: August 14, 2015
Director: Karan Malhotra
Running time: 2h 35m
Music composed by: Ram Sampath
Genres: Action
Cast:
Akshay Kumar as David Fernandes,
Sidharth Malhotra as Monty Fernandes,
Jacqueline Fernandez as Jenny Fernandes,
Jackie Shroff as Gary Fernandes,
Shefali Shah as Maria Fernandes,
Ashutosh Rana as Umesh,
Kareena Kapoor as Special appearance in song "Mera Naam Mary",
Kiran Kumar as Peter Bregenja a Former Mixed Martial Art Champion.
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