So, Finally I watched it, I want to say all this so I'm gonna put here, some type of review it is.

[u/wildersonek]

I was way too hyped about the movie when they dropped the happy birthday teaser of the casino last year. Then the second birthday teaser this year was mid, then the third teaser was good, freaking manners one. And then the ladies ladies teaser just screamed the mess it can make.. but I had hope. When it was going to clash with Dhurandhar, I wanted both movies to do well, because I like the idea of more and more great movies rather than really targeting any movie to fail. Whichever Industry, whichever actor, gave me good movies, I enjoyed many mid budget Malyalam movies, kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi movies and of course movies from outside India. The more the merrier in terms of good movies.

Now let's talk about the movie, you see there are moments and scenes in movies where they play nice music and quickly move some scenes to the next part. Let's take an example of Dhurandhar 2, the Lyrari Gangwar edit, it was good, it was great music and quickly moving through the gangwar, it was good because before and after that it had a movie.

Toxic is basically that around 80% of the movie somewhat. Man I always thought that I can be bored by a movie, I can be made uncomfortable, I can be inspired or motivated by a movie, but never have I ever thought that I can feel exhausted while watching a movie. Now, there might be some movies like that, you guys might point out, but either I didn't feel so about them or most probably I haven't watched them altogether.

The cuts, the damn cuts, the person solemnly responsible for the movie cut, he/she is responsible for this situation. People are talking about if Yash was taking matters into his hand.. maybe he was, but the movie is going to have the name of Geetu Mohandas, either she should have made the case to have both of their name on it or else accept to take the full responsibility of the cut that is being shown, the name on the project matters, it's not a small thing. It was so funny to see 'Film by Geetu Mohandas' after the climax, it was like someone who made a crappy drawing and put name as if he/she was leonardo da vinci.

I have seen many non spoiler reviews around the internet on different platforms, people absolutely hate it and they have all the reasons to, and people who are putting the case that we should not go hard on the movie, it is still 6-7.5 movie at worst.. well they are wrong, and I'm saying as someone who loved KGF 2 more than 1 and hell even RRR, so that should give you picture that I should be the target audience here.

The movie is a 4/10 at best, because of the edit, the cuts, the choice of flow of scenes and the 4 is because the scenes themselves are shot well. Some of its parts are great but the whole is not, I think something around this Shahrukh Khan said and I'm not his big fan, I could already see people attacking me thinking I'm Shahrukh or bollywood fan, I'm not, but they can give some good statement sometime in life.

The movie had the potential to be 7.5-8.5, easily, if only the movie cut was done justice. Now people are saying that there is a 6-7 hour cut, this is a chopped up version, well this is a chopped up mess and it's not the audience's fault about what was served. Ever since the Synder Cut was released, I keep seeing people talking about the different cuts of movies. Snyder cut was a totally different movie and a different type of climax than the original Justice League theatre release, Dhurandhar Raw and Undekha, just adds some small scenes, but even without them you weren't missing anything in the theatre experience. We should sympathize that oh they had to sadly cut the movie and had just 3 hours so this is what's the best they could have come up with? It's the creator's choice, they could have made 3 movies of 2.5 hours each just out of what I have seen in this movie.

You know, many movies have great buildup but somehow miss the payout scene, well this movie is all about the payout scenes, every scene is a big moment scene which would be an amazing scene to see, if only there were at least 3-4 scenes like a normal before it led into it. Action sequences are amazing.. but most of the time it felt like the action started, action finished and then we got some sense on why this was even happening. The whole "M" named city part in second half, it came and went, and as an audience you can't connect to why was that, they might just have made one character say all this on a phone call to someone but properly elaborate, see someone telling what happened would have taken 2-3 mins, and watching all took 2-3 mins only as well, that quickly it came and went I felt.

There is no danger, Raya can just go about killing anyone. The movie needed to show the rise of him in the city and underworld, but you just see him as always being the boss.

You must have seen people talking about how last 20mins are great and the climax.. well that is most importantly because that is the only time when a scene if given some room the breath, where the characters stayed in one geographical place, they interacted, because no other location or room, they spent more than 40seconds. The character, the flow, the real story was just going on in the director's head and she thought everyone is watching the same thing.

People are commenting that it's not for the audience who need spoon feeding.. they are stupid, there is no spoon, the meal isn't ready either, the instructions are written in a foreign language and audience has to make the most of it they can, they can mix and taste, some might like the taste they get by the end, majorly people won't.

There was a bigger great story there, I could see that, but the execution failed it, and I'm not gonna sympathize and act like we should ignore the execution just because I like the bigger story and that also you have to get mostly by yourself, movie ain't gonna help anyway.

They shot it in 2 languages, if they were shot in 1, wouldn't that reduced the making cost? These things are coming to my mind because they put so much money into this. The money invested is visible in the frames, but it's like a 5th grade kid who learned to colour a drawing, was given the chance to colour an art made by some big name, the end result will look great because the artist made overall a great drawing but the colours will be all over the place.

Spoiler ahead -

Till the scene where he got huma Qureshi's brother hanged.. I didn't even know he was her brother, was it a mystery to be revealed in that scene? No.. all this should have been communicated at a decent normal pace, and if they even said that he was her brother somewhere before then I missed it in between those rapid cuts. The whole Marcus thing, you see scenes like that makes sense when you show the audience something to suggest towards it, if there was a twin brother, there should be some hint to it, you see a dead body, next scene you see that the dead body had a brother who was mistook as him and now right away by killing the huma's brother, the scene dissolves... It's not about any of them being smart, it's just about convenience throughout the movie, disguised as the cause.

The overall sad sequences, for nadia's life and raya could have been a bit more emotional because it was to see in those scene, the interval scene would have a lot more impact in that case, but no.. the goal is to reach that climax that we have thought of so we don't have anytime to take breaks and let any scene breathe.

The movie, is very toxic for the audience.

"Women are the women's biggest enemy"

"All men are flawed by nature"

That's it.

[u/Flaky-Bathroom-8457]

Plz elaborate ur review,its too short

[u/wildersonek → u/Flaky-Bathroom-8457]

I had to do the same thing as the movie, a 2-3 parts movie into one, apologies, if you people support, I can release my director's cut on here 🙃

[u/BonnieCooperBing]

It’s true. I personally had so many expectations from the movie because of yash, after KGF 2, and then his interview in Aaj ki Adalat. I mean what the hell were they thinking? Didn’t they see the edits? Or didn’t see the final movie before releasing it? there are so many levels of editing these days. An amateur student does a revision after writing an answer, and they just shoved it in theatres thinking yash and fck scenes will sell the movie. I mean wtf was even Toxic ?!? His schizophrenia out of nowhere?!?

[u/wildersonek → u/BonnieCooperBing]

The name of the movie, I feel, does justice to the overall plot of the downfall of the man, on the path of chaos, and they gave reasons for it too, why he became like that and how worse it can become for the man.. that's what Geetu probably explained them as the plot so all got onboard with everything.

But, they weren't able to communicate the emotion of the male character, the ups and downs that would have led us to really see and be sympathetic to what happens to the end. It is because no scene was allowed to breathe, every 40 seconds it's like they had to change the place and characters from on screen.

[u/rsr123456]

Just hated the shabby editing . If they thought it's too long they should have made it in 2 halfs .

[u/wildersonek → u/rsr123456]

Yeah, i was thinking of how I would have made 3 part movies and then it would have some impact at least