‘Baaghi 4’ review: No winners in the game of good butcher versus bad butcher

Baaghi 4 sees Tiger Shroff return as Ronnie, the action hero with enhanced protein shake coursing through his veins. In his latest film, Shroff goes for broke – a bid to save his flailing career, perhaps? Exit the kid-friendly actor and enter the mean-tempered avenger who drives metal rods into skin and sets heads on fire.

Apart from shock value, A Harsha’s 163-minute Hindi movie has little to offer. Shroff has the fitness levels and the martial arts moves needed to carry off the action scenes, but not the ability to play a man so devastated by his loss that he loses all sense of proportion.

Baaghi 4 is based on a story and screenplay by producer Sajid Nadiadwala that closely resembles the Tamil film Ainthu Ainthu Ainthu (2013). Ronnie is involved in a terrible accident and wakes up after a seventh-month-long coma. He insists that his girlfriend Alisha (Harnaaz Sandhu) was also involved in the mishap. Only, there appears to be no trace of Alisha.

Is Alisha a figment of Ronnie’s imagination? The bigger question is, why doesn’t the carnage-friendly villain Chacko (Sanjay Dutt), who has something to do with the situation, dispatch Ronnie when he was lying senseless on a hospital bed?

Ronnie and Chacko are bullet-proof, machete-proof and...

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