Not a War Film, a Disappointing Drama!

Rating: 9/10 (11 January 2019)

When you go for a war film, you watch out for a couple of hour long intense exchange of bullets, bloodshed and ultimately, the glorious triumph of one over another.
But URI is a film which fails to give you any of them!
I'll keep it short and simple. The first half of URI revolves around the lengthy backstory of the characters, especially our man Vicky Kaushal. The first half also tries to evoke patriotism amonst the audience through catchy one liners. In fact, the brand of patriotism that has been imparted is not very different from what we were taught in school about how we should respect our National Flag, our National Anthem,etc.So spoonfeeding primary school stuff would not really prove to be interesting experience for most.So summaryof the first half- An Overstretched drama!
And the 2nd half revolves around the operation- the Grand Surgical Strike. The makers potray the Surgical Strike exactly as it was carried out in real. So the audience gets to see nothing new, coz we have already heard all about it in the news.
I feel, a War film should be innovative, and innovation has to be brought about by adding new elements than what happened in real. That way you get to please the ones who have grown up watching Hollywood war films,the ones who know what a war film really should be like. Sadly, URI has nothing new to offer and it becomes exactly like a History Channel/Nat Geo documentary of the entire operation in the 2nd half!
But for those who just wanna lay back and enjoy a mindless massy movie, you can go ahead. The rest..... the movie is not for you all, unfortunately!