Yes, at last the long awaited, slickly executed Kamal Hassan starrer is out. And the verdict...um-mm, I just dunno! Lets get the fundamentals first. Kamal Hassan plays a super cop, hunting down a serial killer who's finished off the whole family of Kamal's boss. The search takes Kamal down to New York city, where he teams up with a NYPD cop and uncovers further clues. In his spare time, he saves a girl (Jyothika) from committing suicide, and starts on a rather subdued like- you-turns-to-love-you kinda track.
The story shifts from NYC back to our land (Mangalore, Goa, Kerala, Madurai and every other place in between), leading to a final showdown where justice triumphs.
So whats missing? One fact that bugged the hell out of me was that the identity of the killers is revealed even before intermission (there goes my hope of out guessing the director). Two, there is no twist, or shocker. Its a very straight story from then on. All that detection leads to....something that we always knew.
Kamal is good (as usual), but much less experimental than we have grown accustomed to seeing him. Jyothika does a decent job, and the villains are stratospheres over the top.
A good movie. But with Mr Kamal, good isn't enough. He's taught us to expect superlatives. And this isn't even close.
The story shifts from NYC back to our land (Mangalore, Goa, Kerala, Madurai and every other place in between), leading to a final showdown where justice triumphs.
So whats missing? One fact that bugged the hell out of me was that the identity of the killers is revealed even before intermission (there goes my hope of out guessing the director). Two, there is no twist, or shocker. Its a very straight story from then on. All that detection leads to....something that we always knew.
Kamal is good (as usual), but much less experimental than we have grown accustomed to seeing him. Jyothika does a decent job, and the villains are stratospheres over the top.
A good movie. But with Mr Kamal, good isn't enough. He's taught us to expect superlatives. And this isn't even close.