Sukanya Verma calls Alpha Movie a botched-up opportunity, and Rediff’s review says the film lands as a generic, lacklustre actioner. The criticism goes beyond taste: it argues that the female-led spy story never gets the action identity it promises.
Girls Just Wanna Have Guns
The review is blunt: "Alpha is a botched up opportunity" and "Girls just wanna have guns." It places the film inside the YRF spy universe, where earlier entries have already trained audiences to expect cameos and showcase moments that register as events rather than filler.
That frame makes the comparison sting harder. The review points to Katrina Kaif’s towel clad fisticuffs in Tiger 3 and Deepika Padukone’s ice skating chase in Pathaan as the sort of set pieces that gave earlier films a sharper visual identity. Here, the review says, the promise gets diluted before it can become a payoff.
Alia Bhatt and Sharvari
Alia Bhatt plays a super soldier who takes on an army of commandos, with an all-powerful serum in her bloodstream and the character name Sita. The review says she does not have the aura to pull off the larger-than-life daredevil role, despite her best efforts, and that the character leans on empty attitude and endless gunfire to find its feet.
Sharvari, playing Durga, gets less room than the setup suggests. The review says her warrior skills are phased out to focus on Alia Bhatt’s solo scenes, which leaves the film looking like a female-led cover story shaped by men in power rather than a true action showcase for its leads.
Shiv Rawail and the boys club
Shiv Rawail’s direction is described as failing the girls’ cause, while Uday Chopra is credited for the story and Anil Kapoor and Bobby Deol play army men. The review also says the film borrows from Black Widow, La Femme Nikita, Hanna, Stranger Things, and Kung Fu Panda, but those echoes do not add up to a distinct action identity of its own.
"There's not one fun bone in Alpha's body." That line is the review’s bottom line, and it lands hardest because the film is sold as a face-changing entry in the spy franchise but is judged to still be controlled by the same power structure it tries to sidestep. The schezwan sauce ad placement in the middle of a reunion only sharpens the sense of a movie reaching for flair and missing the point.
