Sadly, it flounders even before it can take off and soar.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 28, 2020

Power, passion, revenge, heartbreak, heartache, tragedy, joy, lust, and love. Let yourself soar with KITES and a love that knows no boundaries, no barriers, a love that is eternal.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 6, 2019

After Life In A Metro, you would have thought [Anurag] Basu's considerable story-telling skills could have only have ratcheted up. But both for him, and for [Hrithik] Roshan, who comes out after three years, Kites is a good-looking disappointment.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 16, 2019

The technically accomplished result is cheesy, engaging but unmemorable 'time-pass'

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 21, 2017

Instead of being moved by the story, I was thinking more about the many illogical plot points in the film.

Full Review | Jul 3, 2016

Roshan anchors the film with a solid, believable performance and a palpable chemistry with his co-star that will remind audiences just how hot a good Bollywood romance can be.

Full Review | Jul 6, 2010

Deliriously entertaining and shamelessly derivative.

Full Review | Jul 6, 2010

a straight-to-video tale that somehow mysteriously managed to find its way to the silver screen.

Full Review | Jun 11, 2010

To anyone versed in Bollywood conventions, it's a natural outgrowth of the genre, and a comically overwrought but still generally fun time.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | May 27, 2010

The pulp is served thick, with so much sincerely purple passion it's disarming.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | May 26, 2010

It's a film that proves the concept "overwrought" is the same in every language.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 26, 2010

Often terrible, yet completely engrossing film from Indian director Anurag Basu.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 25, 2010

A lush, lavish Bollywood-meets-Hollywood fantasy, available for viewing in both a shorter and longer version, courtesy of Brett Ratner.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | May 23, 2010

By the third act, you find the characters and story growing on you and the romance, despite the histrionics, moving.

Full Review | May 21, 2010

The result is a lovers-on-the-lam blast of pure pulp escapism, so devoted to diversion that you probably won't even notice the corn.

Full Review | May 21, 2010

Kites is, essentially, a love story. With exploding cars.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 21, 2010

Director Basu also has a tendency to backlight scenes, giving them epic, otherworldly glows that become all the more distracting with their increasing predictability.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 21, 2010

A weird fusion of romantic excess, overwrought violence and crudely-staged action, all played to the rafters, filmed in garish colors and accompanied by a bombastic background score.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | May 21, 2010

There are many words that could be used to describe "Kites" in a review--indeed, even the trusty Oxford English Dictionary almost seems inadequate for such a task--but "boring" is most definitely not one of them.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 21, 2010

Kites morphs into an action picture, complete with unfathomable chase scenes and a Thelma & Louise ending that is laugh-out-loud hilarious.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 21, 2010