Review: Vidyut Jammwal's 'Commando 3' Is Exhausting To Watch

Touted as stunt star Vidyut Jammwal's biggest release to date on the strength of the number of screens that film is playing, Commando 3 is not only an unabashed rehash of the previous two entries of the franchise in terms of the action sequences but, far worse, it is also a sickening regurgitation of all the Islamophobic notions that feed this particular Bollywood genre. The plot is as thin and hackneyed as it can get: a chest-thumping, flag-invoking, invincible patriot goes on a mission to counter an evil religious fanatic out to destroy India.

Commando 3 is infinitely more disingenuous than the other terrorism-themed Mumbai films that we have seen because just ahead of the finale it very cunningly puts the onus of thwarting a nationwide terror attack on the Muslim themselves while the male protagonist in faraway London proceeds to pulverise his cornered adversary with blows that reduce the latter to pulp.

A very, very wicked and cold-blooded man in London, Buraq Ansari (Gulshan Devaiah), who owns a South London restaurant called Bukhara, plots a bigger-than-ever terror attack on multiple Indian targets. The first time we see him in a regular, full-fledged sequence, he is busy rustling up some biriyani as his ten-year-old son Abeer (Atharva Vishwakarma) watches.