For starters, it is not about war. And no, that is not giving the movie away. At best, it is giving the title away. The good news then is, if you are looking for aggrandisation of war, you won't find it here. What is it about then? It is the wish and vision to show a lot of action around something that will sell. And, of course, that something is patriotism.

The actors are able to give some weight to the goings-on, not necessarily through their performance but their earnestness.

Which might have still worked, if only, the fight sequences weren't mostly shabby CGI and edits taking over actual action choreography. It is borderline annoying because you see all the money spent on awesome, non-standard locations, but zero creativity in the execution.

It is a given that almost anything cool is clearly a rip-off from something we have seen in Hollywood. But that's not my complaint about the creativity. It's frustrating that it is not copied well despite the resources.

And if they are at this stage in their main aim—action—it would be silly to expect creativity in the writing, right? Like even simple things, such as having loftier aims. Why are spies from the YRF Spy Universe only saving India and not the world, not even the sub-continent? What is the endgame? As in what are they expecting to achieve by doing what they are doing?

Given the lack of logic, it is decent that there is some sense of flow and logic in the details. And the actors together—Hrithik Roshan, Jr NTR, Kiara Advani—are able to give some weight to the goings-on, not necessarily through their performance but their earnestness.

Yep, too little for the three-hour do. Except for the five-minute dance when Hrithik Roshan does his thing. I, for one, might not get over how well he can move his feet. Alas, not nearly enough.

- meeta, a part of the audience