They say, in Bollywood, one movie can make or break things. If with Agneepath, Karan Malhotra found his ground in the industry, with Brothers he undoes most of the good from his extravagant debut. There is no mild way of conveying that this Akshay Kumar, Sidharth Malhotra starrer is a snooze-fest which is excessively and unnecessarily melodramatic, its thwack lacking the impact one would have hoped for. Brothers is watchable only in parts and its length doesn't help the its case either. Well, you can very well be their guest and crawl for over two and half hours with their screenplay, to relish just a few extraordinary MMA tussle sequences. We wish that it was redemption enough for a story that lost its edge in Indianization.
An official remake of the Hollywood flick Warrior, the film narrates the story of a street fighter Garry, and his two sons Monty and David. The family was struck by a calamity which tore them apart. Malhotra attempts weaving in a desi narrative on lines of the original, but given our inherent dramatic Indian sensibilities, it was almost a given that mush will overtake. But, the schmaltz factor overflew tad too much, compromising on the film’s intensity. By the end of it, you'd hardly care for the warring brothers and their pathos, which has compelled them to lead a life being oblivious to each other’s presence.
For the entire first half, the film sets the ambience and fleshes out its characters. Malhotra’s sharp sense of characterization which he displayed in his vendetta film previously was obsolete from this one, as he dabbles with flat characters.
