Ayush Kumar Thakur

A good plot but lukewarm performances and average writing is simplest and most comprehensive definition of Brahmastra. It's no masterpiece and nor are the performances hence keep your expectations low, dialogues are either half done or do not have the refinement that would engage the audience for longer duration or have them invested in the plot. Astraverse has great potential but the overburdening and mostly annoying theme of love being dragged for major screen time puts off the suspense and thrill of all battle scenes. Shiva and Isha's love story is big off putting throughout, itna pyaar karna hai toh pornhub join karo jaha aise raddi films bante hai aur chalte hai. All this hogwash about reintroduction of Hinduism to Bollywood and whatnot is nowhere close to being true, it takes inspiration from handful of Vedis topics and mashes modern superhero elements into it to make the said Astraverse. However the initiation is half good which needs the next level script writing to make future films successively better. Any rating above 50% is absolutely unacceptable and indicates fandom over true review. Next films need more refinement in their intent to shoot each frame and need to refine their dialogues and performances for the theme of battles, order and chaos, good and bad, light and dark over everything else and they need to cut on the romance and expand in the astras and their broader history.

The film has been in news for too long and the hype around it is justified given the circumstances DCEU has been through. However it's an ordinary film with a pale story, good performances and partially refined character development for several characters for the time allotted to it. An antihero protagonist is rarely seen on big screen and this one shall be known as one of the good ones for long time. The Rock and JSA members play their parts well but some characters were too annoying to bear *cough Amon and his skateboard cough.* JSA needed more members, maybe 2-3 more to make their brawl against the antihero more realistic while the version we got looked like fire drill for Black Adam. The backstory was well written, this iteration was truly sentimental and justified Teth Adam's origin story from his point of view. Overall it's amazing film for those who seek to be entertained while those looking for quality superhero film, their curiosity will not be satiated but it's good one time watch and rejuvenated hopes of seeing more from DC.

This is a surprisingly good film. While first half of the film can be skipped as there's very little detail that truly has relevance to the plot, the second half is where the real paisa-vasool action and plot resides. The intent of the 2nd half to unravel the mysteries surrounding the plot introduced within the opening of the film gains relevance and puts a predictable yet great conclusion in place for viewers to enjoy. Varaha Roopam and Bhoota Kala make for a visually stunning song and the conclusion is the element no one would see coming until a particular cry echoes in the background. Terrific performances throughout, be it serious or comic scenes everyone delivers their best and the relevance of all characters is seen and justified throughout. It's a good one-time watch, and since 3.5 is unavailable I'm giving it 4 instead.

After watching this film, I'm convinced that audience nowadays will watch anything to get entertained and that includes this ordinary film overhyped by many as a big deal. It is the worst ending to any MCU Phase till date and hopefully they will improve in future. The plot reads strong overall but execution is lackluster, Shuri was not the best fit for Black Panther mantle and the supporting characters were okay. Namor as villain/anti-hero was disappointing and the final battle was implausible throughout. While it does complete justice to the homage for the late Chadwick Boseman, it didn't alleviate the quality of the film that was expected. This film does not deserve any rating above 40% at all, MCU Phase 4 has been disappointing overall and that includes Black Panther Wakanda Forever

It's not easy to judge a film that commences with good introduction and falls flat on its face during conclusion. With the fleet of great actors like rajkumar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Aparshakti Khurrana etc this film should've done more to give an edge to other horror films. Unfortunately it does not scare enough and the plot of Stree attempting to haunt the village falters under the genre of comedy. While the plot of origin of the ghost is saved for sequel, whatever was devised for the ghost could've been salvaged better for this film's sake but unfortunately that dose not happen. Pray that the sequel does more justice to both horror and comedy genres