Force 2

Five years after 'Force', John Abraham takes his shirt off again as ACP Yashvardhan, the Mumbai cop who can lift a car with his bare hands. This time the enemy isn't a drug lord but a mole inside India's intelligence service. 'Force 2' is directed by Abhinay Deo, the man behind 'Delhi Belly', and produced by Abraham himself with Vipul Shah, with more chases than dialogue and much of it set in Europe.

In China, RAW agents are being picked off one by one. One of them, Harish, is Yash's best friend, and before he dies he manages to get him a coded message hidden in a book. Yash takes it to RAW headquarters and ends up partnered with KK (Sonakshi Sinha), a by-the-book agent who prefers analysis to fists, the exact opposite of him.

The trail leads to the Indian embassy in Budapest, where someone is passing the agents' identities to China. There a game of cat and mouse begins with Shiv (Tahir Raj Bhasin), a hacker who's always one step ahead and turns every attempt to catch him into another chase through the city.

The cast also includes Adil Hussain as a government minister and Boman Irani in a brief role. Shooting began in August 2015, and much of it plays out in Budapest and Berlin, shot by Imre Juhasz and Mohana Krishna. It opened on 18 November 2016, ten days after India withdrew its 500 and 1,000 rupee notes, and demonetisation hit its box office. In the UK it started 15th from 22 cinemas.

Indian critics were split. They praised action scenes worthy of Hollywood and Bhasin, a villain having more fun than anyone on screen, but picked at the plot holes and at Sinha, who after 'Akira' never convinces as a field agent. In the UK it's available to rent or buy on Apple TV.

• Action
• Thriller
• Crime