Good Bad Ugly Tamil Movie Review
2/10
This is worse than Mark Antony. Where the story is fine but this isn’t a story movie right?
Why is it so unrefined? Why is the CGI so bad. Why are some of the CGI colours overblown. They went to cool locations and had cool cars, did cool stunts but we can’t enjoy it as the editing was bad. Why? Was the film edited by a blind person? Why did T-Series and Mythri look at this and said, Yes? Why didn’t they postpone the release and fix these issues?
It feels unfinished.
It feels like an insult rather than an homage.
Petta and Jailer are homages, but they are way better and more refined. Why? As they are done under the New Gen school of thought. Whereas this director should be New Gen, but is worse than some Old Gen directors. And look at what happened? Jailer grossed over 600 CR. This should have been like Jailer.
Spoofs can be really good, fun and smart. This was just mediocre. There’s a lack of connect and caring. There are plotholes and just blatant cheating, like one person is shown shot in the head, but later we see that they are alive. But we aren’t shown how.
AK isn’t as good as he needed to be. He should have been the SJ Surya of this, where he saved Mark Antony. He seems to be just coasting rather than acting.
Mark Antony was also crazy but better, why? It was cleaner and less lazy. This feels like they don’t care.
One scene has someone backed into a corner by 2 guys with weapons. But they need to escape with another person there. And in the next shot, we see them outside running with that person. What? How did they escape? The makers don’t care. Another scene of someone splashing in water. The body disappeared as the fake looking CGI splash was shown, but shown well above where the body would have hit the water. Why? Was the CGI person also blind?
There are old songs used for action scenes, where I liked the old songs, but the songs made no sense, when they could have. Like show a speaker and someone playing it. But the worse part is that the action scenes with the songs don’t match. The least they could have done is to make the vintage songs and the action match. But also have the context match too. Like Elamai Etho should have matched the setting where it should have looked similar to the original music video for example. Or at least have Kamal fandom shown. Like the people AK is beating up could have said they are Kamal fans and their place should have Kamal’s pictures or something.
Arjun Das was good and his dancing to old songs was great. But his character, when not dancing, was just normal. Why? Why couldn’t he be the same eccentric self?
The end fight between AK and Arjun was also mediocre. Why? One of the best villain actors vs AK should have been the level of the Vidaamuyarchi and Leo end fights.
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Saying something is fine being bad because the fans don’t care or it’s a commercial film is stupid. As that’s not how it works and we see that all the time. “Commercial” doesn’t mean bad or stupid. There are plenty of good and great works of commercial cinema and fan service cinema, such as Lokesh films, Nelson Films and RRR for example. Also commercial and class are merging. So why go backwards?
Also fans don’t care isn’t the same thing as “lets make it purposely bad”. As if they don’t care then why not make it good? As if they can’t see the difference then why not do the right thing?
As if you do it well, you can also get the non-fans, make more money, get good reviews, make careers, have a legacy and get more big films.
We see this time and time again in Indian cinema, for example bad commercial fan service Tamil and Telugu (and Hindi with Salman etc) films that try to be commercial and do fan service that get bad reviews and fail at the box office or just scrape by. Like Beast and Thunivu. But then comes a Leo and Jailer that get insanely more money, get good reviews and are loved all over. As they have the non-fans, who are the majority of the audience.
Makers look at crazy fans and think that they are the majority. But far from it.
Varisu is a bad movie, but fans were satisfied. That was the goal, so the makers can milk them for money. But it and Bigil, another fanboy film, got about Rs 300 CR each at the box office. Varisu got another Rs 290 CR from pre release business like OTT. So about Rs 600 CR altogether. But Leo, a Mass/Class non-fan (mostly) movie got Rs 600 CR from the box office alone! And about Rs 400 CR from the pre release. So about Rs 1000 CR! And this is from a manly Tamil/Mallu/South Audience. They screwed up the North Indian release so only got about Rs 30 CR from there I read. But it still made a Bollywood level Rs 600 CR!
So why are makers still making these mistakes?
As bad movies make less money, get bad reviews, get made fun off, ruins legacies, can’t even make a legacy to begin with as people forget them, and even lose money. I read that Rajinikanth personally returned money to investors of Lingaa and Annathee. This is stupid.
Even if they make money, the films is trolled or forgotten. Whereas Lokesh’s films have a legacy for example.
Fans will like anything you make, as all they want to see is their hero look good. It doesn’t mean anything specific, but Indian filmmakers have got it so wrong where they keep doing backwards garbage. Again Leo and Jailer has proven this, as well as bad films losing money, trolled or being forgotten.
What I mean by specific is terrible editing, unrefinement, laziness, crap action, fast motion, amateurish direction and a sense of not caring and not knowing what you are doing.
The problem is that these things are not necessarily done on purpose by the makers thinking that the fans don’t care. No, thats just some things people say to defend such crap.
No maker purposely does bad work. They do bad work, as they are bad filmmakers. But scrape by as the fans don’t care.
We see these things in most Indian films. It doesn’t matter if they are fan films or not. It is unacceptable. In this day and age especially. I was talking about commercial and fan service movies as these tropes get defended in those films and may get put down in other films.
But in a day and age where we have Lokesh, Nelson, the two Karticks, Pa Ranjith, and more, we can’t have this unrefined mess.
