'Kandahar' (Amazon Prime Release) movie review: Slow-paced, unexciting melodrama

Updated On: 15 June, 2023 05:28 PM IST | mumbai | Johnson Thomas

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Kandahar

Film: Kandahar (Amazon Prime Release)
Cast: Gerard Butler, Navid Negahban, Ali Fazal, Bahador Foladi, Tom Rhys Harries, and Nina Toussaint-White
Director: Rice Roman Waugh
Rating: 2/5
Runtime: 112 mins

This film isn’t the juicy, action-packed movie that one expects action star Gerard Butler to star in. This is a film that wants to have its geopolitics taken seriously. Unfortunately, it`s not interestingly presented nor does it have enough tension, action, or smarts to keep you invested and interested throughout.

In this picture, director Rice Roman Waugh ( “Angel Has Fallen” and “Greenland”), has Butler play Tom Harris, a CIA black ops agent who we first see planting explosives to disrupt Iran’s nuclear preparedness. This sort of storyline is well in keeping with America’s attempts to stay numero uno in the nuclear arms race. Harris and his partner do the job successfully and are all set to stealthily move out of the country…but Harris, who is addicted to his profession, is waylaid by another assignment in neighboring Afghanistan and his half-hearted attempt to get back in time for his daughter’s graduation might be in jeopardy.

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