Red Alert

It may be politically correct in its tenor, but Red Alert does make you sit up and demand attention.

Watch it for the sake of encouraging thoughtful, relevant and truly scorching content!

...it is a triumph that in such charged times, the film not only got made but found a release.

Though it has its share of flaws and is nowhere in the league of its predecessors named earlier, it does manage to strike quite a few chords.

You’ll enjoy the gritty tale if you can forgive the lack of depth and the film shirking from taking a stance.

The movie is for the discerning people, mainly intelligentsia, and deals with one of the burning topics of the day.

...the movie suffers from the same problem that all Bollywood films on controversial subjects do--how to present both sides, equally well, not offending anyone.

The movie, dull on drama, doesn’t take a stand. The backdrop is its only purpose, and doubles up for its skeletal plot.

...what could have been a knockout blow barely shakes you up.

...doesn't hit you hard. In fact, it leaves you numb.

Mahadevan doesn’t leave anything out of his worthy plot, which seesaws between keeping it straight and creating a shoot-and-scoot drama, but doesn’t have the skill to pull it off.

Red Alert's tragic flaw is the over-simplified resolution of strife that is as old as our nation itself.

It's not a typical entertainer, but if you are in the mood for something different, this engrossing film -- full of super performances -- is not a bad idea.

Though the base material remains gripping, Red Alert is a bit slow in patches, with the complex Naxal issue getting a slightly filmy treatment.

...an earnest movie that is low on melodrama but equally lacking in dramatic tension.