Baaghi 4 Review: Baaghi 4 is an unnecessary, cringe-violent mess with no story or acting
Rating: 1☆/5
Let’s get this straight: Baaghi 4 is not a movie. It’s a two and a half hour gym routine disguised as cinema. If you’re going in expecting a story, emotion, or even a plot, you’ve already lost.
This time, Tiger Shroff plays Ranveer Pratap Singh, a defense officer madly in love with Dr. Alisha D’Souza (Harnaaz Sandhu). Naturally, because this is a Baaghi film, tragedy strikes and Alisha dies. Ronnie (Tiger, once again) then meets with an accident that leaves him brain-dead. Don’t worry, in this universe, “brain-dead” is just another cheat day. He recovers months later but starts hallucinating Alisha everywhere. The people around him call it madness, but the film insists it might all be part of a dark conspiracy. Suspense? Not really. Hallucination? Absolutely, for both Ronnie and the audience.
Tiger Shroff is undoubtedly fit, but fitness and acting are two very different sports. His abs are in 4K Ultra HD, but his expressions remain stuck in buffering mode. His grief for Alisha is expressed with the emotional range of a robot trying to cry. At one point, you wonder if the filmmakers mistook “brain-dead” as Ronnie’s permanent character brief.
The action sequences? Think Diwali crackers on steroids. Explosions every five minutes, cars flipping for no reason, and villains flying higher than Tiger’s career expectations. The supposed emotional subplot with hallucinations gets drowned under so many stunts that Alisha’s tragic love story feels less like heartbreak and more like a warm-up exercise before the next round of punches.
Just when you think it can’t get louder, in swaggers Sanjay Dutt as Chacko, the blood-soaked antagonist. Draped in menace and dripping intensity, he briefly injects some weight into the film, until the script remembers its true calling: another round of slow-motion kicks. Dutt sits on his throne like a mafia don, but even his screen presence can’t rescue this protein shake of a movie from being all brawn and no brain.
By the climax, you’re no longer invested in whether Alisha is real, imaginary, or a PowerPoint presentation. You’re just waiting for the end credits to free you from this cinematic obstacle course.
✅ Pros:
- Tiger Shroff’s action stunts are slick and acrobatic.
- Sanjay Dutt adds some much-needed gravity.
- Harnaaz Sandhu is graceful, though underused.
❌ Cons:
- Paper-thin, predictable story.
- Emotionless acting — Tiger’s grief is robotic.
- Over-the-top action with zero logic.
- Far too long and loud, exhausting to sit through.
Hallucination “mystery” turns laughable.
Final words
Baaghi 4 tries to be a love story, a psychological thriller, and an action extravaganza all at once, but ends up being none of the above. It’s loud, predictable, and stretched longer than Tiger’s warm-up routine. Sanjay Dutt tries to add menace, Harnaaz Sandhu brings charm, but in the end, the film is exactly what it feels like: a rebellion against storytelling itself.
Verdict: More flying kicks than feelings, more firecrackers than plot. Watch only if your idea of cinema is chest workouts set to background music.
Baaghi 4 is less cinema, more chest workouts with background music. Unless your idea of storytelling is watching abs, kicks, and explosions on repeat, you can safely skip this rebellion against logic.
