Can’t wait for the new Mission: Impossible movie? Just watch the Bollywood spy blockbuster Pathaan

polygon.com:

We’re all excited for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, right? One of the most consistent franchises in Hollywood returns in for its seventh installment, promising globetrotting thrills and death-defying Tom Cruise stunts once again. The movie’s biggest problem: It comes out in July, a whole four months from now.

But what if I told you there is a new movie out that would scratch many of those same itches? And you can watch it right now at home.

Pathaan, the highest-grossing Indian movie at the box office in 2023 and the fifth-highest of all time, just arrived on Prime Video this week. The fourth installment in the (loosely connected) YRF Spy Universe series, and the second directed by Siddharth Anand after 2019’s exciting War with Tiger Shroff and Hrithik Roshan, Pathaan is a globetrotting spy thriller highly influenced by turn-of-the-century espionage blockbusters like Mission: Impossible 2 and Die Another Day.

In Pathaan, two former secret agents abandoned by their country respond in opposite ways: protagonist Pathaan (Shah Rukh Khan) with unwavering loyalty, and antagonist Jim (John Abraham) with anger and revenge. The plot is pretty perfunctory, as far as spy things go — there’s a complicated scheme with a virus and plenty of betrayals and double (or triple) agents — but it’s all dressing for gorgeous, globetrotting spy thrills with some very beautiful people.

Pathaan has everything you could possibly want from a globetrotting international spy thriller: car chases, explosions, helicopters, hot people in a litany of amazing outfits, big stunts, rippling muscles, fights on top of moving vehicles, romance, song-and-dance numbers, motorcycle chases, an impenetrable vault, exotic locations, a fight on a