Clash Head-On in a Headless Actioner

Why do we lap up action films? A biological reason would be mirror neurons. They fire up inside the brain both when an action is performed and when you observe someone executing the action.

- KARTIK BHARDWAJ

Why do we lap up action films? A biological reason would be mirror neurons. They fire up inside the brain both when an action is performed and when you observe someone executing the action. So, for instance, if a movie hero performs a somersault kick, it feels like you are making the flip yourself. Or, if he suffers a bloody gash, you flinch a bit. You would have felt these things while watching War 2 if your brain cells had survived. War 2 is an unnecessary addition to an already bloated YRF Spy Universe. It is a factory-line product, assembled purely to cash in on an established franchise. You take a Bollywood star, add a South Indian star to make things 'Pan-Indian', mix it with multiple foreign locations and action sequences in a car, atop a train, and even a plane, and finally garnish it with an actress in a glamorous role, and voila! Blockbuster is ready. Only that it is bland, because neither food nor film can yield an experience by mere compilation.