Move over Tom Cruise! Your action sequence on the train in the climax of Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning was breathtaking. But, eat your heart out. Bollywood newbie Lakshya has aced it in Kill, arguably Indian cinema’s most violent film yet. It releases on Friday to enthusiastic audiences across the world. Dharma Productions, the makers of this gritty thriller, pulled out all stops to make sure Kill reaches every cinegoer who is an aficionado of the action genre seeing the thumping response the film got at the Toronto Film Fest. It opens across 1,000 screens in North America.
 
Critics who watched previews of Kill have been left gasping. They describe the action as being slick, frantic, propulsive, and all the other adjectives you can lavish on a Bollywood film with raw fight choreography and CGI that is not embarrassing. The sealed-off compartments of the train become the perfect sandbox for blood-soaked mayhem. Korean action choreographer Se-Yeong Oh and Bollywood’s Parvez Sheikh who have worked on War and Tiger 3, designed sophisticated stunts, mesmerising martial arts sequences, and cool hand-to-hand combat scenes to give Kill the edge.
 
The verdict is unanimous. Bollywood has never produced anything quite like Kill before. Come to think of it, neither has Hollywood also. Though American greats like Hugh Jackman, Vin Diesel, Chris Hemsworth, Liam Neeson, Steven Seagal, and Jean Claude Van Damme have set their own respective benchmarks for action staged on a moving train. But those are actors who cut their teeth on action movies. Lakshya is Bollywood’s reply to them. A newbie who stylishly breaks the shackles of stereotype and pushes boundaries of action and gore aside as he delivers what promises to be the mother-of-all violent films. This is not for the faint-hearted.