Animal

A story which is cheerfully misogynistic, morally bankrupt and stomach-churningly violent. All of which I could have endured if the drama and emotions had held.

Ranbir Kapoor stars in a blood-soaked drama about daddy issues that is screaming at the top of its lungs with nothing to say.

Ranbir Kapoor plays one of the vilest protagonists in cinema history.

Like nearly every factor here, the songs and blood-soaked interludes alike are not without skill, but get kick-dropped into an inorganic whole uninterested in integrating them to sustained, logical or emotionally credible effect.

This Ranbir Kapoor-Anil Kapoor-Rashmika Mandanna film ricochets off target after having raced full-tilt to the mid-point: if it had come to an end at the interval, it would have made its point.

Intellectually bankrupt, morally reprehensible and stylistically inept, Sandeep Reddy Vanga's Animal is about as irredeemable as they come.

The movies best and worst qualities come from how bold and excessive everything is. The movie is totally unrestrained. That makes the sequences and characters memorable, but it also makes the runtime totally unnecessary.

Trashy, idiotic, and filled with disgusting bloody violence that's overly repetitive, Animal is excruciatingly too long at about 200 minutes. This garbage movie has no redeeming qualities. It's yet another stupid story about feuding and vengeful families.

Beyond the never ending reign of bullets and butcherings, both Animal and Kapoor's vicious Ranvijay remain hollow.

Animal is a complicated film with a top-tier Ranbir Kapoor, who delivers a powerhouse performance that is worth the price of admission alone. What the film lacks in substance, director Sandeep Reddy Vanga makes up for with sheer audacity and bloodshed.