It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The first must-see film of the year.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Here comes a Gladiator! The Khan loves to strip of his shirt once again and he likes it, as the character demands it. But again, leather jackets, rugged clothing, weapon in hand and horses... could be well suited only for Akbar Roshan (referring to Hrithik) and not the Khans (Aamir Mangal Pandey Khan, Shah Rukh Asoka Khan and now Salman Veer Khan). Having look alikes does not make the Jodi Hit. Humne Hit Banadi Jodi only of Salman - Ash and not Salman - Sneha Ullal (no Luck at all) and now Salman - Katrina lookalike in Zarine (strictly not a bit of Kaif at all). But Salman thinks so! He penned the story himself! Inspired by watching all old films of his father's era, this period film of 1862 in 2010 reminds you only of 1970 films. Director Anil Sharma makes Salman do the Sunny Deol way. But does not work for today's multiplex generation. The film is outdated and reminds you of the films that were made in the early 70's and 80's with Dilip Kumar, Dharmendra and even Bachchan (Mard). Jackie and Mithun support him as pillars while his brother Sohail looks like a junior artiste in the film. This British rule film is VEERy Poor and with ham scenes here and there, makes you laugh though. The best example to get bored is to watch VEER. And I doubt there will be VEERy little audience in the complex to watch it!

Veer directed by Anil Sharma is painful watch.High Budget,lavish production values and great stars do not make an movie super-hit,but it is the story which unfortunately Veer does not have.The story written by Salman Khan is childish.The screenplay is bad.Performances-Salman Khan and Mithun Chakraborty save the movie from going downhill.Salman Khan as always is excellent.Mithun Chakraborty is superb.Sohail Khan irritates.Zarine Khan is no Katrina Kaif.Her acting is bad.Jackie Shroff hams.On the whole,Veer is sheer disappointment.

This film should have been laughed straight out the preview cinema. The only reason I remained in my seat, was the astronomical disbelief that a film with such wealth behind it, could continue to produce such terrible scenes, one after the other. I sat, then lay, then practically wept waiting for the moment where I could see exactly where the money had been spent, apart from to airbrush a six pack on to the main characters.It was as if the special effects team had been given cartoon style dynamite, the animation team consisted of one small child, diligently copying and pasting characters, the small horse riding across the desert being a particular favourite, over and over again, the production staff were short staffed, the editing team had got drunk, and all of them were so bored by their own film that they even ended up writing 'insert foreign language' instead of the English translation during several excerpts of the film. Throughout the film, the editors enjoyed the popular old 'cut half-way through a speech and suddenly tag a second scene into it, without any attempt at linking the two together manoeuvre'.I think at one point, they discovered the pause button when several characters were leaping through the air and believed that stopping them mid-flight was to somehow symbolise their surprise? Rather than conjure a clearly expected look of awe from the audience, it must have been forgotten that fifty years of cinema has passed from the time that that was an acceptable form of conveying emotion on screen, and thus, the entire room dissolved into hysterical laughter.Finally, the collection of people producing sound on the back of this obviously took out a Yamaha keyboard circa 1980 when providing the effects, and played with a couple of the 'boing' and 'woooooo' and 'beep' buttons in the background to keep the audience entertained through the stiff and wooden dialogue, let's not even mention the corpse-like acting.I'm sorry, who green-lit this production? The script on its own was beyond terrible. Clearly the power of having a Bollywood star as both lead role and writer as well as chief funder, meant that nobody felt they were able to say that firstly, Salman Khan is hardly capable of giving a world class performance in a historical role, and secondly, he's definitely not winning the Booker Prize anytime soon, so perhaps he should have handed over the reigns to somebody who actually had a clue how to write a script? I cannot fathom how he could even consider taking on the epics; Gladiator and Lord of The Rings (cited as potential inspiration) with so little up his sleeve? Mastery, suspense, awe, groundbreaking cinematography, elegant scripting, time and effort put into picture perfect seconds and sublime acting; all elements that could be taken from those films. Instead - all he's taken is 'there's some big fights that happen in the middle, and it's all about good versus evil so let's just do that and say it's the same thing?' If this script was handed in at any film studio, without a title or an author, hands down, pages would be being used to wrap big sweaty pieces of take-away pizza in for the staff and by that very evening hurled into the rubbish truck, soaked in grease, shredded and ready for morning collection. Expecting this film to parallel the beautiful Jodhaa-Akhbar, I was both ashamed and to say disappointed, would be the understatement of the century. I would be embarrassed to see this at a small local amateur production, let alone a huge budget Bollywood film. This has the potential to be one of, if not the worst, film I have ever seen. For that, I am very sorry. Think of the good use this money could have been put to!

Veer suffers from formulaic overkill. There is just so much contrived jabber-jabber you can take about defending your honour, about duty versus love, and about drinking the blood of the British. The film's director, Anil Sharma, may have touched a chord with a similarly jingoistic approach in his Sunny Deol-starrer Gadar: Ek Prem Katha, but in Veer the chest-thumping melodrama appears mechanical and excessive. The film, then is watchable for Salman Khan's arresting screen presence, his charming romantic overtures, and a degree of involvement from him that you haven't seen before. Unfortunately, what lets Veer down in the end is the fact that it overstays its welcome. At almost two hours and forty minutes, it's way more than you can handle on an evening out. It doesn't help that key parts are filled by weak actors like Sohail Khan, Puru Raaj Kumar and Aryan Vaid who rob the film of any shred of credibility it might have otherwise earned.Watch it if you're a die-hard Salman fan. It's an epic-sized period film with tacky special effects. Unacceptable in these times. From Cameron's Pandora to Anil Sharma's Pindhari, we've come a long way. The film's action is visceral with several blood-splattered slaughter scenes, but often runs the risk of coming off as ridiculous. A Gladiator-style duel ends with Salman literally twisting a man's head 360 degrees around, and there's another one in which he yanks out a rival's insides with his bare hands.The film also suffers on account of too many songs that don't take the narrative forward, including one in which Neena Gupta jiggles and wiggles and heaves her bosom suggestively at the entire Pindhari clan including her grown-up sons who dance along merrily.Much of the film's first half holds up because there's conviction even in the stupidity. You may find it hard to believe that one man can single-handedly fight an armed gang, but Salman and his director dive into the most preposterous scenes unblinkingly.