ada
the leading man is my tpye
Phonearl
Good start, but then it gets ruined
Acensbart
Excellent but underrated film
Orla Zuniga
It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review
Daya SuryaBhai Tarak
Srinu Vaitla-Ram Charan's latest action- revenge-comedy-family+1000s of other genres movie Bruce Lee is not the break that the lead actor was looking for after a dismal show in his previous outing.The writers follow a principle known as reuse-recycle-recreate.I can call it Dookudu 4 as it follows the same template of villain harming the hero's family and the hero users a comedian as a bait to trick the villain and end the movie with a fight.Dialogues are routine and nothing much to talk about.The screenplay is highly predictable and direction is not executed well. Brahmanandam is the official mascot of Srinu Vaitla movies and his comedy is the same slapstick humor.Rakul Preet doesn't have much to do. Ram Charan is okay and has improved and Rao Ramesh does justice to his role which saves the movie.Chiranjeevi cameo is the only saving grace and that's the only stuff that mega fans can rejoice about.Arun Vijay is the perfect example of an amazing talent gone waste.Thaman background score is good in a few scenes and the cinematography is really good. But that isn't enough to save this movie. Bottomline :Go n watch it if you have a lot of time to kill this festive season
shritanvarma
SHORT REVIEW- Rating- 3/5+ Ram Charan and Rakul Preet Singh are rocking + visually striking songs with good beats + choreography + light hearted first half +Chiranjeevi's cameo - generic plot - mostly weak comedy in second halfArun Vijay is wastedIt's very routine in screenplay and plot, so if you are looking for something new then try some other movie. The lead pair do very well and are great in the songs. Thaman has composed three good songs while the other two are monotonous. Although it is just like Vaitla's other films, it's choreography and lead actors save it from turning into another Aagadu...if you go in with very low expectations you will enjoy it more
snaidu422
An IB chief who handovers an important mission concerning national security (or so as he believes) to an ordinary stuntman who is in love with is daughter.A dumb heroine who does not even get to put 2 and 2 together even though her boyfriend on numerous occasions says things, like shooting, lights, director, stuntmen, bathas and still believes he is a policeman and not a stuntman and at every impromptu occasions wears dresses made of ribbons and breaks into a song with him.A Villain who organizes a mass killing in a restaurant and blames it on Al-qaida just to silence two people.A IB officer who goes to Afghanistan on an undercover mission and sets up a barber shop there and still the IB manages to have him in the department.A hero who has nothing to do with Bruce lee except a tattoo of him on his hand and still prefers people calling him Bruce Lee.The above is a list of characters of the tollywood flick "BRUCELEE- THE FIGHTER". I guess this would be enough to make a judgment on how the filmmakers take the intelligence of the audience for granted. Coming to the story (if you can call it that) Karthik is an intelligent student as a kid who sacrifices his education so that his elder sister Kavya (Kriti Kharbanda) can get to study and become an IAS officer. His father Ramchander Rao (Rao Ramesh) has enough financial capacity to educate only one of the kids. Karthik becomes a stuntman and for some whacko reason people call him Bruce Lee.Enters a dumb girl Riya(Rakul Preet Singh) who wants to get married only to a police officer and seeing Karthik in a police costume beating a goon mistakes him for the real one and designs a computer game on him as the lead character (?????).Karthik and Riya fall in love. Riya on numerous occasions manages to pull Karthik into situations where he has to behave as a police officer and actually fight hardcore criminals.On one of his escapades, Karthik sends a notorious gang leader Deepak Raj (Arun Vijay) into a coma and his father Jayaraj (Sampath Raj) screams vengeance.Now Jayaraj is legally wedded to Vasundhara (Nadia) whose son is getting married to Kavya and Deepak is his secret legal wife (???) Malini (Tisca Chopra)'s son.When Karthik learns about Jayaraj's double life, he decides to play a trick like all Sreenu Vaitla's heroes and lands up in his house and using IB officer Suzuki Subramanyam (Brahmandam) as a scapegoat manages to uncover his evil deeds to Vasundhara.Phew! That's what the movie has to offer people, if this is one side of it, the other thing which actually makes us laugh out loud is the reason why Chiranjeevi makes an appearance in this flick. Comeon people! You don't rescue a girl and then leave her in the villain's hideout while you go horse-riding with your pal, that's exactly what Ramcharan and Chiranjeevi do.The one positive factor of the movie are the dances, Ramcharan is a good dancer and it would have worked better if they had named the movie "micheal Jackson" or "Prabhudeva" or "birju Maharaj" instead of Bruce Lee. The guy has a single expression throughout the movie, be it love, anger or ecstasy.Rakul Preet Singh cannot act to save her life. The less said about her the better.Kriti Kharbanda has nothing much to do except cry, run and hug her brother in every scene she is in.Sampath Raj is good as the suave villain who leads a double life, if only his character had been worked on a little more, we would had a real dark villain, but alas!Music by Thaman is average and not a single song is worth remembering.Srinu Vaitla's direction is pathetic, he only uses his own movie making template which he has been using for a decade and every movie of his is the same.His proclamation is loud and clear "no matter what, I will not change. I will continue making the same story with different lead actors".I would give it 3 on 10, just for the well choreographed dance sequences, would I recommend this to anyone? Please embrace the plague but not this movie
Critic DZ
This movie has everything that a successful Tollywood flick needs, a larger than life hero who cannot act to save his life, a bimbo heroine whose skirts magically reduce an inch or more of length in songs, a family patriarch who is strict, a doting mother, a sister (who thankfully does not gets violated albeit she does gets drugged), 5 songs that sound stale (Trademark Thaman who like the director Srinu Vaitla rehashes the same tunes over and over again), slo-mo fight scenes with bodies flying around defying all earthly laws of physics, a brahmanandam comedy track that can barely invoke a simper (let alone a laugh) and so on. This is supposedly a "family entertainer for masses" movie that gets routinely churned out from Tollywood (and elsewhere in India too). Absolutely nothing new in the content and presentation. If you had seen Srinu Vaitla's previous films, you will have a feeling of deja vu because that's exactly this movie is, stale ! Ramcharan tries hard but he appears to be more wooden than ever. He dances well though. Rest of the people in the movie are just there as fillers. Yet another clichéd, predictable fare that makes you feel that probably watching a wet paint getting dried up is a better time-pass. The horror is that such movies rule and make the most money inspiring more clones and the eternal vicious cycle. I have no problems with mass movies if they do provide a wholesome entertainment or a fresh take. This one provides neither and is just a usual over-hyped movie. The golden moment in the film is Chiranjeevi's entry but it is too late to redeem it. But for him alone I give this movie 2 stars. If he had been the main lead, probably this would have been a different experience. IMDb says people who liked this movie also liked Aagadu, I think thats sums it up ! This one can be skipped and forgotten along with Srinu Vaitla's last venture Aagadu.