Baaghi 4 Review: A Desperate And Brutally Boring Film, Bollywood’s Worst Nightmare
Release Date : 05 Sep 2025
A catastrophic punch to the face of cinema, and a brutal reminder that some franchises are best left in the past.
Director – A Harsha
Cast - Tiger Shroff, Sanjay Dutt, Sonam Bajwa, Harnaaz Sandhu,Shreyas Talpade, Pawan Shankar, Upendra Limaye, Saurabh Sachdeva, Sheeba Akashdeep Sabir, Mahesh Thakur, Sunit Morarjee
Duration – 157 Minutes
Rating - 1
If you thought the Baaghi series had already hit peak absurdity, buckle up — Baaghi 4 takes the franchise’s trademark nonsense and cranks it into a catastrophic meltdown of cinematic disasters. It’s like the filmmakers took every bad idea from the past three films, tossed them in a blender, and hit puree. The result? A painfully incoherent mess that should’ve never seen the light of day.
The plot is a half-baked, headache-inducing tangle of amnesia, lost love, and villainy, but told with all the grace and logic of a toddler’s tantrum. Tiger Shroff’s Ronnie wakes up from a coma (because why not?), struggles to remember his girlfriend, and then proceeds to punch, kick, and karate-chop his way through what feels like a series of random scenes stitched together with no narrative glue. Watching this plot try to make sense is like trying to decode a drunk’s rambling voicemail — frustrating, baffling, and ultimately pointless.
Tiger Shroff’s acting is as wooden as ever. The guy’s apparently mastered the art of looking perpetually confused while delivering lines like a robot with a short circuit. If you thought his earlier films hinted at some potential, this one smashes that hope into a million pieces. Sanjay Dutt shows up halfway through looking like he wandered onto the wrong set, hamming it up so badly he might as well be auditioning for a cartoon. Harnaaz Sandhu, supposedly the "lost love," delivers her lines with all the charm of a botched school play, confirming she’s not ready for the big leagues. And Sonam Bajwa? Reduced to eye candy and cringe-inducing scenes, proving even glam can’t save a sinking ship.
Technically, Baaghi 4 is a cacophony of clichés and sloppy execution. The action sequences are a brutal parade of recycled moves — violent, yes, but thrilling? Not in the slightest. The cinematography tries to sell grandeur but ends up looking flat and uninspired. The background score is forgettable noise that could have been replaced by silence and no one would notice. Editing is patchy, pacing is a disaster, and color grading swings wildly, making you question if the film was finished or just thrown together last minute.
Credit where it’s due: the production design shows some ambition — the sets look huge and expensive — but that’s where the gold ends. This film is a classic case of style over substance, where all the money in the world can’t buy a coherent story or decent performances.
In the director’s chair, A. Harsha seems utterly lost, powerless against a script that’s less a screenplay and more a collection of terrible ideas. Producer Sajid Nadiadwala and writer Rajat Arora might as well hand over their paychecks to anyone willing to do a proper rewrite, because this disaster needed to be stopped way before cameras rolled.
Baaghi 4 doesn’t just fail — it’s an embarrassment, an endurance test that crushes whatever goodwill the franchise had. It’s a film so mind-numbingly bad, it makes you question how this trainwreck managed to get greenlit. If you want to waste your time on something that’s neither entertaining nor remotely watchable, by all means, give it a shot. Otherwise, steer clear and let this franchise finally die a well-deserved death.