Climate Activist

Looking at the ratings on IMDB and Google, it indicates that either there are a large number of brain dead people who watched this movie or they are all blind loyalists of Dulquer Salmaan. I am neither of them and this is why any sane person will rate this movie 1 stars or lesser if it was possible. This review is going to be a long read, but I want to help anyone save their precious money before they decide to go to this abomination of a movie. Like others I was swayed by biased reviews online and booked recliner seats for what I thought would be an awesome theater experience after a long time. But at the end this movie gave me high BP so much so that I snapped at an unsuspecting autowallah who demanded for extra money when I tried to get back home. So here's what I thought was all things wrong with this movie - 1. The "protagonist" If you thought Edward Cullen was the OG at playing a bad vampire, the protagonist of this movie gives a worthy competition. Like Edward Cullen who is poker faced the whole Twilight series, the actress beats him with the most poker and stoned face she could render. It's so much so that you feel a relief when she smiles for 0.5 seconds in a scene which also disappears quickly. We get that she is not human, but it you want a "heroine" to inspire you will have to give her "human" characteristics for the audience to relate to. For example, Wonder Woman was able to connect because she showed empathy for human suffering albeit being a demigod. You see the heroine here beat up goons for harassing women but her expressions remain stone cold. Her costume throughout the movie with oversized jacket shows her as very casual and uninspiring. She shows up standing in the dark most of the time and it's honestly becomes boring after some time. 2. The "action" Nowadays showing a lot of blood equates to good action then you are absolutely wrong. There are scenes with dead dogs, dead mother's and dead what not. And it doesn't make you feel good at all. The camera keeps moving around in crucial fight scenes with excessive slow motions and the whole sequence remains very dull. 3. Music Nowadays BGMs are meant to give you a seizure. Every 5 minutes you have a "Naaaaaaa naaaaaaa" blaring from the speakers. It honestly will give you the worse headache. For people with migraine, I warn you in advance, be ready to carry your ibuprofen. 4. Side characters Noone knows why they were even shown. There was a "goblin" who magically disappears when the heroine is outnumbered by the anti terror squad and noone knows why. 5. Villain Needless to say, I don't even know why they had a villain in the movie. Their performance was very cringey and uncomfortable. It doesn't make you cheer the heroine for beating him at all. You just want the dude to die to stop watching anything related to him because up until that time you would have already given up on enjoying anything about the movie. The concept is very promising, but the execution is a hot pile of pathetic mess. Save yourself some headache and migraine by skipping this movie.

It's a cheap imitation of the drug cartel movies with absolutely no plot. The director just wanted to show gore in the most worst form. You even appreciate Animal's fight scenes compared to this mess. Also Animal has a plot, even though it's another bad film but atleast it has a STORY even though it's a bad one. This movie doesn't even HAVE A STORY to begin with. Words like "f£&k", "bis@x#al" is thrown around just to incite some reaction but you are obviously numb at this point. Not sure what the creators aimed for and have no idea who is giving this mess of a movie 5 stars. Skip this one for sure otherwise watch it out of peer pressure. If there was negative stars I would have given. This movie single-handedly spoilt the reputation all the Malayalam movies worked very hard to earn.

What can I say? I went with a lot of nostalgia of the 1996 classic. It turned out to be a bad idea. I am not sure what went wrong as it started on a promising note. By the end of it, I was just glad it was over. 2/5 because VFX was top notch.