User Reviews

The movie is awesome and keeps you engaging until the final climax where suddenly characters started making sillying mistakes and allowing the killer to slip from their hands. Which really was frustrating.

Given that the actor asking in few scenes before to another police officer to shoot at killer without thinking but when himself presented the same opportunity doesn't do so. He has a clear shot ahead while the killer is just paused prior hammering the kid. Actor could have simply shot at killer's hammer holding hand but instead he simply moves near and allowing the killer to slip again.

In several instances I found it dumb for police officers to gave up their vehicles and chase killer on foot when apparantly the killer is in vehicle.

The entire buildup and suspense was truly engaging and the story went quite good untill it reached its climax and closure sequence. Unnecessary past reference that too out of context which lead to illogical conclusion of teasing the killer just to distract didn't made sense. And killer in-spite being diagnosed with hormone disorder disease had surprisingly super natural stamina to keep attempting to arise after every blow. Actor was literally giving the killer third degree kind of beating still killer was amazingly agile and quick on feets.

To sum up the frustrating mistakes were: 1. Police officer not shooting (at least on legs) even when Hero is explicitly repeating to do so on phone.(Atleast he fires at tire. Bless him for that); Plus why he allows the killer to play with cards?

2. Hero not shooting killer (hypocrite) when had clear chance. Was he afraid that killer's speed of swinging hammer being faster than bullet?

3. The actress while running upstairs away from killer is clearly trying to save the kid but surprisingly she somehow manages to forget the kid in very next scene. Lol. Killler was too scary for her consciousness maybe

4. The doctor driving the car when found the kid ahead and after having a glimpse of killer surprisingly turns to feet instead of car to run away. How smart!

5. In a chase scene where the actor is chasing on feet and other officer on bike, the killer gets rid of them easily by applying the brakes and making bike officer to bump on the Van. And amazingly the unhurt actor prioritise to console bike officer instead of continuing chase by bike or foot. Bike officer wasn't really fatally injured!

The main advice for watching this film as said in Idharkkudhaane aasaipattai Balakumara "It should not be watched by 1) People less 18 of age 2) Pregnant ladies 3) Heart patients"

Though it's not a Horror film, the movie is scarier, especially second half.

Story: The movie started as a usual crime film, but tone became darker when the movie started to progress. The backstory of Psycho was good.

Screenplay: The screenplay in this movie is engaging and brilliant. First half seems to be normal. But, the true fear starts in its second half, though there are very few loopholes.

Music: The best one about the movie is its BGM. 80% of the fear is because of its BGM. The dark music which completely matched the film. Gibran again proved himself to be the best music director.

Acting: All actors did their best. This is the best movie ever for both Vishnu Vishal and Amala Paul in terms of acting. All the other actors dedicated well.

Other things: The runtime in this movie is too long which is around 2 Hours and 50 minutes. But one doesn't feel that the movie is dragging, because of the engaging screenplay. Each and every scene in this movie is essential. Moreover, editing was crispier which added more thrill to the film.

On the whole, it would be a great movie if you watch it in theatre.

My rating: 4.5/5

Being #5 on IMDB ratings (India) , expectation was a lot more. Watched this movie just to find out it's not worth the hype. 1. Primarily it doesn't keep up with raw-crime thriller genre. Why do the Indian directors feel the need to dramtize things so much? 2. The editing at the very initial part of the film seems like the creators were in a hurry to narrate the actor's story and the killings. It was like watching too many cut scenes in sequence. Also some scenes could have better cut off to save too many explanations. 3. The diseased villian so strong that he could stand up even after the brutal bashing by the actor at the end part. 4. The killings were well planned and brutal but the killer seemed to be just an average one. (No he isn't a raatchasan). Atleast the teacher psycho seemed more terrifying. 5. There are no CCTVs on the streets. May be the police might not find it handy. 6. Prothestic department still stuck on dashavatharam days. 7. Thankfully the music is incredible.

But the plot still kept the audience engaging and some good screenplay would have matched the hype. If you guys feel this one of its kind watch Anjaam Pathira.

It didn't have the cringe that south movies usually have in-fact the director's storytelling skill is highly commendable, the story was very well written and amazingly portrayed on screen, the fight scene with Christopher was really artistic - But the ending felt a little stretched - other than that, it was awesome. AND, I an my wife both knew the magician was the killer as soon as we saw her...umm...him solely because he stood out --- white - bad makeup and male body shape, he/she stood out so much, it was obvious - had they used a general brown Indian older man - we would never have guessed it - that was a huge blunder from the director's part for absolutely no reason but kudos to him for trying to divert the audiences attention to the pedo pervert teacher when they first showed the magician on screen but it wasn't a big enough distraction.

Overall the ideas are interesting but I'm sure most of the reviews already covered these ideas.

Plotholes and conveniences are jarring and annoyed me more than they should because I expected much more from the film:

1) How did a serial killer suspect easily break from his arrest at the hospital? Remember he's not the killer, he's was just a school teacher.

2) How come the school teacher has the same doll in his house? Remember the teacher only invited the student because they use the same taxi.

3) The killer was too overpowered, easily entered the school teacher's house to plant the evidence (like that baby doll). Not to mention overpowering a cop only using playing cards.

4) The cops are so incompetent to the point that the only competent cops in the film are the protagonist and some cop that let the protagonist out of the jail. His supervisor constantly being a hindrance, his friend who has aim a gun at the serial killer yet wouldn't shoot him, and even the protagonist himself sometimes would do stupid things like waiting for the schoolgirl to be captured while sitting in the car for about 1 kilometer away.

5) Almost everyone would see the twist coming from miles away (the serial killer is the son)

Overall, I think it's a solid 7/10. Good thriller but could've been better.