Sky Force is the title of Akshay Kumar's latest Hindi-language action drama film. Released in theatres this Friday, the film tells the story of India's retaliatory attack on the Sargodha airbase of Pakistan in the Indo-Pakistani air war of 1965. Also starring Veer Pahariya alongside Sara Ali Khan and Nimrat Kaur, the big-scale movie is directed by Abhishek Anil Kapur and Sandeep Kewlani.
How is the movie? Most film critics have disliked it, some more harshly than others. NDTV, giving it a 2.5-star rating, stated, "The film devotes an entire hour to a segment designed to showcase a squadron of fighter pilots. Their exploits and exchanges are drowned out by the din of a gratuitously loud, persistent background score and the never-ending roar of the flying machines caught in dogfights."
The New Indian Express opined that the film is a drag. "Sky Force, touted to be a high-octane aerial actioner full of good old deshbhakti, is a drag and not just of the smoking kind. It is so by-the-book that even the revelation in its climax comes from one," the daily added.
Indian Express had a mostly balanced reivew."And while the background score swells and booms, especially during the aerial dogfights, the melodrama is kept mostly muted. Pahariya is efficient; Akshay appears distinctly older in the parts where everyone is young."
Hollywood Reporter India complained that there is no stillness to the storytelling. "Sky Force is a hurried loop of song, set piece, exposition, tragedy, speech, repeat," film critic Rahul Desai added.
