Kill Review - A Martial Arts Slasher 

This is a movie that I quite enjoyed, but I know that I'll enjoy a lot more on rewatch knowing what to expect. My most anticipated action movies of the year are still Havoc and The Shadow Strays.

The stunt team that worked on this was consisting of mostly Korean fight choreographers with Oh Se-young (The Yellow Sea, War of the Arrows, Snowpiercer) at the helm and you can really tell, a lot of the early 2000s and some 2010s Korean actioners were very much so based around weight, impact and the level of exhaustion one feels during a fight, the amount of knife fighting here also resembles some of the gory melees of Korean cinema, it was just interesting to see those elements juxtaposed with an Indian film with its melodramatic and over the top sensibilities, very interesting mix that I hope to see this team develop further in the future, as for "KILL" it is a solid first stab at this type of action movie for the Indian film industry.

Watched this at an empty screening few days ago I really enjoyed it like the way it ramps up halfway

Saw Kill in theaters luckily. Sadly no one wanted to join me lol But it was a great time with the 5 other strangers there with me. Fight scenes aren’t choreographically revolutionary in any way really besides it being brutally realistic for an Indian film. But it completely subverts the vengeful violence sub genre through its characters. I hope the Hollywood remake can emphasize that narrative subversion more because I haven’t ever felt this much sympathy for characters from both “sides” outside a war drama.

I felt similarly about Kill. It's packed with great fighting action but as a movie overall is not the most satisfying plotwise. it's not great at creating narrative suspense. The main character makes a good action hero though. He could probably make a career out of this if he can get roles in other big budget films.

Great & concise review. It could have had a better finale as you said, however, also bear in mind, this type of gore is a first for an Indian film, and many other action films.

It’s just “the raid” in a train.

You gotta check out "Life After Fighting".

Haven’t heard of this film before, but glad to learn about it. I’ve described Bruce Lee’s Fist of Fury as a martial arts slasher before.