India, April 10 -- Good Bad Ugly doesn't try too hard to disguise which camp it falls into-it's loud, indulgent, and unabashedly tailored to celebrate its star. The film banks heavily on Ajith Kumar's charisma and larger-than-life screen presence, but beneath the gloss and fan service lies a wafer-thin story stretched across an uneven narrative.

He is dreaded gangster Red Dragon, who gives it all up when his wife Ramya (Trisha Krishnan) tells him he can't touch their son Vihaan until he atones for his sins and leaves his criminal life behind. And that's exactly what Red Dragon-aka AK (Ajith Kumar)-chooses to do by surrendering to the Mumbai police.

As AK, who longs to be a doting father, serves out his sentence, Ramya and Vihaan move to...