Happened to watch much awaited Cobra
Exteremly disappointed seeing the pathetic take. Chiyaan's obessession - as we can say "multiple get ups" only worked out in Anniyan, from that movie till this , he only put effort in getting into costumes.
The movie lags like anything, it doesnt have a decent stunt, unnecessory romance, songs, I was amazed to see the extremly low quality of vfx, it felt like some kid used MS paint to add vfx into the movie.
Story is clieched, unbearable acting of Srinidhi Shetty, Mrinalini Ravi, Meenakshi Govindarajan. I felt too irritated witnessing their clieched dialogues and over acting
Not sure why Irfan Pathan acted as a sub hero role but he did his role well
There are many roles which felt completely unnecessory Mamukkoya, Robo Shankar, Anand Raj etc
AR Rahman's music is below average,
Roshan Mathew as a villain is a failed attempt.
More over the 20 minutes cut, they did it in the climax portion, which was again a blunder. The story itself made up like "If we prove the story is complicated, then it will run" too many dimensions ruined the story .
On the whole , not even worth watching for OTT (coming in Sony live)
Plot summary
A Turkish Interpol officer, Aslan Yilmaz investigates the assassinations of Chief Minister of Odisha, Mayor of France and Prince of Scotland, where he, along with a young Tamil criminologist Judith Samson, deduce that Cobra, a flawless assassin is the mastermind behind the assassinations. The duo learn that Cobra assassinates his targets using mathematical skills, leading them to believe that he is a professor of mathematics.Meanwhile, Mathiyazhagan "Mathi" is a mathematics professor, who is actually Cobra, receives his next assignment from his mentor and senior journalist in Kolkata, Nellaiappan. He is to kill the Russia's defence minister, Dmitri Yugolsav. He travels to Russia and manages to successfully assassinate him and escape, despite tight security from the Interpol. Before Yugolsav was killed, Aslan and his team watches a telecasted conversation between Nellaiappan and Nawab, who works at a company named Rishi Corporation, where he concludes that the victims are connected to the company's owner Rajeev Rishi, a psychotic and sadistic business magnate, who inherited the company from his father. After his engagement to his criminologist girlfriend and Judith's teacher, Bhavana Menon, Mathi learns that Nellaiappan has been kidnapped and learns that someone has targeting him from the beginning of his assignments.After a clue from Sudoku, Mathi receives a call from the person, who is Mathi's doppelganger, where he challenges Mathi to save himself from him. In a turns of events, it is revealed that the person who is referred to as Mathi is actually Kathir, Mathi's schizophrenic long-lost twin brother and the person who challenged Kathir is the real Mathi. Rishi sends men to capture Mathi, but Kathir manages to kill them. Mathi had been holding a grudge against Kathir, as he was responsible for the death of his girlfriend, Jennifer Rosario, who was the daughter of the Kolkata city commissioner Rosario. Mathi learnt about Kathir's identity as Cobra and planned to seek vengeance for Jennifer's death, where he reveals that he was the one who was sending clues about the assassinations to the Interpol.Mathi hands over Kathir to Aslan, where Anand Subramaniam, the investigating officer and Rishi's mole, takes Kathir's help to capture Mathi. Kathir brings them to Mathi's hideout which is an under-constructed mall. Rishi arrives and a fight ensues between the gang and Kathir, where he successfully manages to subdue them. Mathi confronts Kathir about Jennifer's death. Kathir reveals that he had arranged for Mathi and Jennifer to leave for Bangladesh, but her father and relatives followed and killed her. After clearing the misunderstanding, Kathir reveals that he had killed Jennifer's relatives and locks Mathi in a room. Kathir shoots Rishi and his men, but gets shot in the process and dies, thus leaving Mathi and Bhavana devastated.
April 14, 2023 at 11:00 AM
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boring, irritating and below average
Only for Vikram
Once again Vikram gave dedicative performance in a average movie . Story was good but screenplay was poor and clumsy . First half , had some intresting assassination sequence , romance part was totally meh and interval twist was good . Second half was totally clumsy writing . Direction wasn't upto the mark . Main positive was Interrogation room hallucination scene particularly Vikram gave a impressive performance in that scene . ARR music was good and eventhough songs were good its placement was poor in the movie . Technically , editing was poor and visually not appealing for ME . Finally , they tried something different in commercial cinema unfortunately misfired .
Vikram does the same mistake again and again
Vikram does the same mistake again and again over the years. 1 getup per movie is enough to make it success for him. I don't know why he always get stuck with dual roles or more than 2 roles.
Irumugan was such a nice movie until the love character introduced. It went on to become a super flop just because of that 1 character. 'I' movie was mislead by the beast getup which came just for 1 song. Rajapattai was mislead by the pirates character and many hollywood villain getup which come for 1 useless song.
Next mistake he makes is adding love scenes and commercial content. Sketch, Rajapattai, Irumugan, Kanthaswamy. Thaandavam, saamy2.
This movie does the same 3 mistakes. The movie gets more confusing after the 2nd Vikram is introduced. 1 is more than enough. It was already established he was having multiple personalities and then 2nd vikram and then sentimental scenes are all boring. Heroine running behind vikram and lost interest for another 20-30 mins.
Original movie is 3h 3m 3s because director's lucky number is 3. Come on grow up guys. You are wasting your own career. It was trimmed 20 mins of villain portion. Cut 20 more mins of romance portion too. 2h movie is more than enough.