A film a little too pleased with its own ultraviolence. Still, genre fans will admire the ceaseless mayhem of this rare Indian entry to the carnage canon.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 11, 2024

After a groan-inducing 15 minutes of exposition, “Kill” lets go of all that baggage to become an outright blast while making a convincing argument for Lakshya becoming our next big action star.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 10, 2024

The fight scenes are extremely well choreographed, filmed and edited, but they're so relentless in their non-stop pacing that the viewing experience becomes numbing.

| Jul 10, 2024

It's a splendidly overcooked mix of heart-torn melodrama romance, and stabby, punch action... almost everyone gets punched and stabbed at least once, and they usually keep going. It moves like a bullet.

| Jul 9, 2024

Kill lives up to its name, and then some: this is a breathless, ferociously gory action film, on a level rarely seen before in Indian cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 8, 2024

Manipulative to the max, “Kill” is dizzyingly impressive and punishingly vicious.

| Jul 8, 2024

“Kill”’s high-concept scenario is mostly a fun idea in search of better execution.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 7, 2024

It’s initially vile, but by its sheer leaden, unthinking, repetition it eventually becomes even worse than that. Boring.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 5, 2024

Kill’s objectives are achieved with an energy and enthusiasm that make it a tasty piece of action cinema which doesn’t pull its punches; it’s finger-cracking good.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 5, 2024

This Nikhil Nagesh Bhat’s fast-and-furious tale is its own creature, which takes care to surround us with familiar elements, even when ratcheting the kill quotient as high as it can go.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 5, 2024

For action-movie purists, Bhat’s train ride hell needs no translation. Bite your tongue, and keep your kicks high.

| Jul 5, 2024

In Kill, the train takes the viewer for a bumpy ride along parallel tracks of heroism and villainy. It is ecstatically violent, both celebrating and interrogating its own killing spree, as it races towards its final destination.

| Jul 4, 2024

Kill delivers non-stop spectacular carnage in an undeniably crowd-pleasing manner with Lakshya presenting as an iconic superstar (bare-chested but wounded) as he breaks, batters and stabs all comers.

| Jul 4, 2024

Kill is rather straightforward for its first third and then, following a tragic slaying, goes absolutely bananas.

| Jul 4, 2024

“Kill” makes very, very good on its goofy title by the time all is said and done, but perhaps the most surprising thing about Bhat’s action extravaganza is that it inverts expectations without ever getting off-track.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 3, 2024

Aficionados of fast, violent action will have a good time, but shouldn’t expect much more.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 3, 2024

The destination may seem inevitable, but the twists, turns, and merciless bloodshed make Kill a trip well worth taking.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 3, 2024

We've had "Boy Kills World" already this summer, and this could have been named "Grown Man Kills World." This is the movie that the solid but less enthralling "Monkey Man" and the empty "Bullet Train" wanted to be when they grew up.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 2, 2024

Kill continually finds clever ways to defy our expectations through the particular placement of dramatic beats, surprising shifts in tone, and even just the way it keeps flipping the geography of the action.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 30, 2024

The film issues a kind of acrobatic masculinity that would make Burt Lancaster blush, all shot through a bloody lens that would make Peckinpah proud.

| Jun 18, 2024