Vella_Viewer

By humane, I don't mean its a humanitarian story but the pain, the wounds, the numbness and the screams feel real!!

I have been war-movie enthusiast for a couple of decades now and absolutely love them. And I started this one also expecting a few (so called) good guys killing a lot of (so called) bad guys with a few slow-mo action shots and melodramatic camaraderie between the 'good guys only'.

But to my astonishment, this movie hits hard. Not much happens in terms of the plot, but the shots, the intensity and behavioural traits of people - it transports you to the real world where bullets hit and hurt the soldiers. Enemy is mostly invisible and if I remember correctly, I saw only one bad guy dying. But the numbness, anxiety, pain, noises - everything is real and genuine!! The house soldiers take over and the fear and anger of the residents of that house - it hits home , as it could be any of us and we would feel and react the same way too.

I'm so glad someone made this film, so that the world can see the not-so-glamourised version of war where humans suffer and die on all sides!!

I loved the pacing and dramatization of Season 2. Kudos to Neeraj Pandey and team for raising the bar and striving the show to bring it at par with Bourne/MI franchisees.

I do have few complaints with season 2 though: 1. The plot of "a fugitive businessman who ran away to a Caribbean Island Nation" had no connection with the main plot and it was overly stretched for no reason. (this reminded me of the show "IC 814" which also had a side plot of a journalist fighting with her editor for news story but that plot ALSO had no connection with the main plot.)

2. The AI-generated wolves were quite fake and lame, and again did not add any thrill or value to the plot.

3. Villain is world's smartest hacker on top of a fancy Dam and yet he didn't had any security camera monitoring people coming into his facility to kill him.

4. Vinay Pathak is wasted in season 2 with no major presence in the plot except a few minor raids here and there at hideouts of the good/bad people.

5. A few AI-generated visuals of nuclear fallout or blasts were easy to make out and looked quite out of place and fake.

Nevertheless, great effort was made in cramming a lot of action within 7 episodes and keeping us glued until the last frame. And I hope next season won't take another 5 years to arrive in 2030.