India has given us a few films over the last few year that have Americans questioning the filmmaking coming from our own domestic industry. 

A couple of years ago a little film called ‘RRR’ produced one of the best cinematic epics of the last 10 years coming from a country that is usually inspired by what the American film industry produces. Here we have another Indian film entitled Kill that hopes to continue the slew of movies that raise the cinematic bar can be found outside of the big four Hollywood System. 

Kill is a film about an Indian army commando named Amrit. Amrit Has found the love of his life in Tulika. However, he has just discovered Tulika is being given away in an arranged marriage before the couple can fulfill their love for one another. Not willing to lose the love of his life without a fight, Amrit surprises her by joining her family on a train that is destined for New Delhi and hopes to convince her father that he is giving her daughter away to the wrong man. 

Unbeknownst to any of the train passengers,  a fierce family of violent thieves have also decided to board the train in hopes of stealing loot from who they assume to be wealthy passengers. Things get ugly very quickly when Amit discovers that the thieves have absolutely no mercy on anyone on the train and will kill and steal from whoever they please and that includes Tulika. Amit must stop the thieves from terrorizing everyone on the train while protecting the ones that he loves the most.

When it comes to the action genre over the last several years we have seen a multitude of John Wick clones emerge to the point of oversaturating the market. What makes Kill so much different than its predecessors is that the effectiveness of the movie lies in the relationships between the characters both on the hero side and the villain side.

The movie doesn’t present the audience with a multitude of cannon fodder who are stabbed and shot without an ounce of regard for who they were or what they represent. In this movie, you feel the emotional gravity of every single person who was killed which makes every act of violence heart-wrenching for the viewers.

While the roles of Good and Evil are clearly defined that doesn’t mean that the human emotions coming from our bad guys aren’t felt just hard as they are from our heroes. In the film,  a group of Bandits is led by the ruthless Fani who along with over 40 members of his closest family and friends has crafted a plan to Rob everyone on board without alerting the authorities to what is going on. 

Fani’s ruthlessness becomes his downfall however as the antagonist becomes a victim of reaping what he sows in the worst possible way.  One of the reasons why foreign films manage to stand out in the pack from domestic movies is that the rampant nihilism of Hollywood has not reached other nations meaning that their films have far more heart and passion in it’s filmmaking style then what audiences Stateside have become accustomed to.

The brutality of modern action movies is alive and well. The kills this film gives are so much more meaningful than in previous attempts. Indian star Lakshya star presence cannot be denied in this 2 vs 41 battle royale which believe it or not is the first film of his young career and certainly will not be the last after his performance.

‘Kill’ is the type of movie that embarrasses films such as this year’s Monkey Man which tried to become a poor man’s Bollywood attempt at a John Wick movie.

Kill proves once again that while the West is collapsing the industry that they crafted the East still has far more to offer as far as engaging Cinema is concerned.

4.5/5

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