24 movie review

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24

Review by zulfi

Rating (1.5/5)

            Vikram Kumar’s ‘24’ (telugu dubbed tamil movie) is amateurish at the best. Since the start of the movie, he treats us to a mindless gimmick of time travel, which I can’t help but criticize. The concept isn’t novel, neither is the treatment. This isn’t the first movie on time travel and as it is the time of to and fro moving screenplay, he tries to create some inquisitiveness regarding interplay of sequence of actions, which he fails miserably.
            In addition to that, the performances of the actors aren’t something to write home about. Suriya’s scientist performance depicts a very docile persona with compensated overgrown intelligence. He doesn’t foresee his brother’s villainous moves when he is on the verge of creating history in time travel. The foolishness comes when his smart son decides on his father’s intelligence at the end to take care of the family against his fiend uncle. Come on, the scientist father wasn’t a match, what is the point in giving him second chances to resurrect their lives. The villain Suriya thinks he is smart, when he doesn’t have the smallest sense to check the function of the watch before he reveals himself to his hero nephew.
            Vikram Kumar’s previous movie ‘Manam’, one of the best in the telugu cinema is followed by a very ill performed and a foolish concept of a movie. Time travel whenever handled in either English or Indian movies had been considered as a light hearted concept and even the actors treat it with comic sense. And if ever there was a serious consideration, there has been some attempt by the makers to explain the situation. (like in edge of tomorrow). But ‘24’ treats it with serious sense not making an attempt to explain the situation. There are a few scenes where the characters play with the functionality of the time travelling watch. They create some fun, but there it stops. The rest looks childish.

            There are a few light numbers to hum in between. The heroine (Samantha Ruth Prabhu) was used just as a prop for prolonging the time. I really pity her. There is an emotional scene where the director gleans on the love of the mother and he is really good at it, as he does the same in ‘Manam’. But calling the spade a spade, I expected a lot more from him. If I ever had that watch, I would go back in time and book tickets for any other movie. But as I can’t, I could only sigh.

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