Stunt sequences on the big screen have never been so dull. Big brother, little brotherDirected and co-written by Ali Abbas Zafar, is full of explosive action. A string of loud and flashy set pieces leaves no room for anything else. Big brother, little brother All is clone, cliché and cacophony. They compete with each other to be seen and heard in a cauldron atop a pole in which excesses are the norm.

Akshay Kumar that is obvious. Big brother of the title, Captain Feroze aka Freddy, is erased for a brief moment. We are the oldest players in this game. (I’m the oldest player in the game), he tells the bad guy, a rogue scientist-entrepreneur (Prithviraj Sukumaran), when they come face-to-face. Freddie is right. The Khiladi Act is indeed unbearably old. There is no more water in it. It has been squeezed dry.

But Big brother, little brother Labors in the belief that star power can help a sloppy script paper on the effects of apparent lack of matter. Captain Freddy is a man who doesn’t give up on himself. He will have Captain Rakesh aka Rocky (Tiger Shroff), his younger partner, who he believes will be a dead duck without the experience and maturity that a seasoned army man brings to the partnership. The latter, not one to be lapped up without a whimper, insists he’s better off the way he is – fast and furious.

What is Fast and Furious? Big brother, little brother It’s also outrageously stupid. It lurches from one chaotic sequence of action to the next without pausing for breath, trying to connect one major confrontation with the next through stiff, horribly contrived means.

Bullets fly, bombs explode, vehicles go up in flames and helicopters, tanks and armored vehicles scramble in a blur of events that are so exhausting and gruesome that they boggle the mind. Numb to the point where you start to wonder if there will ever be any gray cells at all. He went into the production of the film.

The story is surprisingly hollow. Freddy and Rocky, two crack soldiers, are court-martialed and dismissed from the army for desertion. It’s not until much later in the film that the audience is able to figure out why. But before we get to that point, we find Freddy working in an oil mine in the desert and Rocky fighting fires and rescuing a cat trapped in Delhi.

Even before that, a lengthy action sequence is staged to show the world why the two men are considered such a formidable pair of extraction experts. The Indian ambassador and his family have been taken hostage by terrorists in Kabul. Freddy and Rocky ride their horses into the camp.

By the time the duo is done with the mission, the hideout has been razed to the ground. And on the way out, they also kill a wanted terrorist mastermind who has been on the run from the CIA for years.

Eight years later, Freddy and Rocky are called back into the thick of the action when the villain — we see a grumpy man hiding behind a metal mask in the film’s opening sequence as he attacks an army convoy — declares its intention to use A powerful new weapon to destroy India.

Freddy and Rocky’s boss, Major Azad (Roneet Roy), believes the two men are still the best in the business, but an old friend of theirs has other ideas. And this is where clones come in. The actioner itself is an unimaginative copy of many movies about a bad guy out to end the world.

The film talks about Watan (Nation), Wardi (Uniform) and Zameer (Conscience), the three things that true soldiers are unwaveringly committed to. We will win but without abandoning the principles that guide us, says top Army officer. There is more art than intelligence in a film that arms the villain with the power of artificial intelligence. He envisions mind-controlled, indestructible soldiers to fight brainwashed terrorists. Failing in his plans, he decides to prove a point.

In a predominantly man’s world, a girl fights alongside two soldiers. He is Captain Misha (Manushi Chhillar), who has some wacky action scenes of her own to prove her mettle. Another girl appears a little later in the film. He is Palmander “Pam” Bava (Alaya F), a nerd who pretends to be a blockhead. He is brought in on a mission to crack complex computer codes.

And of course, Sonakshi Sinha makes an extended special appearance in which she plays a top military officer who goes above and beyond the call of duty and volunteers herself for an experiment to save the nation from an impending threat. she does.

Amidst all the slow action that ensues, Big brother, little brother Tries too hard to be funny. It is not required. There’s something immediately funny about an aspiring blockbuster that’s presented as God’s gift to the genre but aimlessly sprawls on an arm and a prayer.

One example will suffice. Pam and Rocky arrive at Waterloo Station on a perilous excursion. On the move, the former puts the finishing touches on her makeup. Are you going to the party, Rocky asks. Pam replied. This is the funny idea of ​​this movie.

Actors don’t get a chance here. Both men laugh and puff their way through the film, Prithviraj Sukumaran tries unsuccessfully to make the absurdities passable and Sonakshi, Manushi and Alia are excellent moving parts in the background.

Big brother, little brother Not a single piece offers what could be considered a saving grace. Sitting through is a motto without respite. Even if you are a fan of Akshay and Tiger, think twice.