Seeing these helmets, I thought that the Indians made a movie about the Germans. . . I didn’t want to write any reviews this summer, especially since in June I spent almost the whole month working in a camp with children, my nerves are on the limit, netnetnetnet, niatela. But, as always, one day I got stuck. It covered the sense of frailty of life, especially after the sad news about the death of our beloved Yurochka Shatunov. I've been crying all day. Then I got hit by a wild shiza again. I have analyzed my whole life, everything, everything and regretted, regretted. But nothing can be fixed. So I decided to write reviews after all, I now have plenty of free time, despite the fact that I almost completely dissolved in Korean dramas, I do not know why I am so tormented by them. No Chinese or Japanese, but no Korean. It's like magic. But I watch Indian cinema periodically, the films have accumulated in two months full.
With regard to this film, Siege - for a long time Akshai Khanna did not give out any works at all. Maybe it has to do with the death of Vinod Khanna's father. By the way, Akshai becomes more and more like his father with age. For another ten years, there will be one face. Well, I warn you, the film is heavy and not entertaining at all. Akshai plays Major Singh, who is haunted by his conscience and nightmares. Once during a military operation, he cheated and his friend was killed in front of him. Naturally, he blames himself, such people are conscientious in other ways do not know. But a new calamity happens: a terrorist organization plans to attack a temple in Gujarat to free its leader Bilal Naika. Terrorists enter, cross-fire and kill anyone in their way, then they are ordered by their leader to hold civilians captive, demanding the government release its leader Bilal, otherwise blood will be shed every hour. Major Singh, along with his commando team, decides to lead the mission, wearing German helmets for something. These helmets infuriated me all the way, only then I read that it seems to be motorcycle helmets, just like the headdress of the Germans of the Second World War. God be with them. They're not the point. The bottom line is that the film is very violent. Terrorists, as usual, are psychopaths with a complete lack of empathy and fear of death. When they broke into the room where the kids were hiding, I thought everyone was shooting the kids. But no, it was limited to a dozen or two pilgrims, an elderly couple and the girl was blown up by a bomb. Freaks, of course.
Akshay played, as always, flawlessly - here even his eyebrows did not show a house, and his role did not imply this. This is a scary, very realistic movie, with the complete absence of any love lines, completely immersed in the oppressive atmosphere of fear for life. You live like this, you live like this, you don't touch anyone, and then a bunch of freaks-psychopaths decide that enough is enough, they live, they take your life with the pull of the trigger. I don't know what's worse - the realization that your life does not depend on you at all, or what depends on such freaks. Don't know. The film is based on the real events of the attack on the temple in Gujarat in 2002.
And yes, I have recently been tormented by questions about the justice of the world order, until I found answers to them. No religion, no esotericism. Anybody knows the answers, answer me.
I recommend the film, as always, exclusively to fans of Akshaya Khanna. The film is not for everyone, heavy too.
8 out of 10