Thugs of Hindostan Review

Ever since the trailer dropped for this movie, I knew that it was going to be pretty bad. But I still went in expecting to roll in laughter at a movie that is so bad that it becomes Comedy Gold. But when the film ended all I experienced was intense frustration for sitting through this disaster of a movie.

I would have been very happy with an awful movie, but Thugs of Hindustan turned out to be so boring. The film is packed with cheap action scenes and setpieces, none of which really excite the audience. I know comparing it to the Pirates of the Caribbean would not be totally fair considering the massive budget of the Hollywood extravaganza, yet Thugs of Hindustan cannot even justify whatever the budget it was made on. The ships look very fake and the action scenes involve sloppy rope work, undone by excessive slow motion.

The first time team up of Aamir and Amitabh was expected to set the screens on fire, but all we get is weak, over the top performances by the two seasoned performers. The women fare no better with neither Katrina nor Fatima getting anything substantial to do. The plot is paper thin and mostly juvenile. For a movie about outcastes fighting for freedom against an empire, the movie manages to be so boring that two hours into the movie, you just hope for the movie to just end. The nonsensical plot is interspersed with a number of songs and item numbers that do nothing to advance the plot, they just add more screen time for Katrina, who otherwise is almost invisible for the rest of the movie.

Thugs of Hindustan didn't really have anything to keep the viewers interested. The story line is bland, riddled with clichés, the performances are tired and the visuals look gaudy and poorly animated. Absolutely bad!