i don't know how most of the viewers would have give this film a higher rating, because i, for one, didn't see it eye to eye. the screenplay is poorly drafted, making a the main character become the narrator of the whole incident. then signed up john abraham to play the main role is also a very bad casting decision. why? i didn't see he has any special ability to show that he is the top pick to do this job. what he showed us here is a thoroughly depressed person without any spirit, always showed us a spiritless and energy-less guy, like a guy suffered insomnia for couple of years, like a walking dead or zombie. what he showed me in this film is quite different from what i've seen from his other films, a high spirit, energetic, very capable person, yet in this film, he seems to become a totally different actor, like a guy with a broken heart from family tragedy or like a divorcée suffered badly from endless sleepless nights. the Indian double-faced spy ring leader is another lousy creation in this film, like abraham, also a very poor cast to play this role. there are too many unnecessary scenes of the wife of abraham, although claimed herself an army wife but got involved almost in every move of her husband. then, we got a pretty field journalist, in order to prove she's in the field dealing combatants all the time, she got to chain-smoking to prove her toughness. the battle scenes and the field scenes are nicely arranged, but the whole movie was a complete failure simply ruined by the poor script and the spiritless, depressed and lame performance of john abraham. this is a film that could be good even great, but failed by poor development and arrangement. if this film is so good, why i felt impatient to sit through all the time? are we seeing the same movie?
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