September 5, 2025: Tiger Shroff’s Baaghi 4 is less of a movie and more of an endurance test. The real action isn’t on screen, it’s in the audience, trying to stay seated through two and a half hours of relentless noise, pointless fights, and narrative chaos. If cinematic fatigue were a genre, Baaghi 4 would be its poster child.
Returning to the big screen after five years, producer Sajid Nadiadwala revives a franchise that seems determined to test the limits of logic, and patience. While previous Baaghi films operated on their own brand of over-the-top action, this one takes that to a whole new level of absurdity. Unfortunately, the bigger the stunts, the smaller the stakes.
A Plot Stuck in a Dream, and Not the Good Kind
Ronni (Tiger Shroff) wakes up from a coma, only to be told that the woman he’s grieving over never existed. The audience, by now, is also questioning the reality of what they just saw. Plot points vanish without explanation. Scenes dissolve into nothingness. It’s like someone turned a confused fever dream into a full-length feature film.
Alisha (Harnaaz Sandhu), the supposed love interest, is the definition of decorative writing. Her presence is limited to montages, dramatic exits, and emotional close-ups that don’t land. The story doesn’t need her, but neither does it know what to do without her. Her exit is as irrelevant as her entry.
Tiger Fights. And Fights. And Fights Again
To be fair, Tiger Shroff is committed. He punches, flips, and flies through scenes with energy. But the script offers him no character arc—just a series of extended action sequences stitched together with weak dialogue and even weaker motivations.
By the second act, even the action feels repetitive. Every fight is staged like a music video, loud and over-edited, and none of it carries any narrative weight. You’re left wondering what the stakes are—if any.
Supporting Cast: Misused, Miscast, or Missing
Shreyas Talpade, once a celebrated actor, is relegated to another thankless role. His character serves little purpose beyond emotional bait. Meanwhile, Sonam Bajwa, who deserved more than a blink-and-miss appearance, is completely underutilised. Her role is a classic case of a talented actor wasted in a template character.
And then there’s Sanjay Dutt. His villainous role is so lazily written that it becomes a parody of itself. Dutt looks visibly disinterested, and who can blame him?
A Franchise That Forgot to Evolve
The Baaghi series once promised stylised action with a pulse. But Baaghi 4 feels like a dated product, stuck in a loop of toxic heroism and outdated storytelling. The film drowns in its own excess, and never quite figures out what it wants to say, if anything at all.
The screenplay is confusing, the editing choppy, and the background score blaring at all the wrong moments. The result? A cinematic experience that leaves you disoriented and disappointed.
Review in short
Baaghi 4 is not just a misfire, it’s a film that doesn’t even aim properly. It fails to deliver as an action film, stumbles as a romance, and collapses as a coherent story. You don’t walk out of it entertained; you walk out relieved.
Skip it unless you owe the universe some serious karmic debt.