Captain Film Assessment: By now, any self-respecting film buff is aware of what to anticipate from a Shakti Soundar Rajan movie. The director has made a profession out of desi-fying Hollywood style fare, one movie at a time. So, after his makes an attempt at making heist film, a pet comedy, a zombie thriller, a sci-fi thriller, and a fantasy buddy comedy, the filmmaker goes after the creature function style with Captain. His sources this time are the Predator and films of its ilk, together with the sequels, Doom and Riddick.
However the issue this time is that the movie really appears like one thing shot with a primary plot define as a substitute of an entire script. Captain Vetri Selvan, for whom his staff is household, is tasked with going into an unoccupied forest space and uncovering the thriller behind the unexplainable deaths of the earlier groups that had gone on a recce to the world. Can he succeed on this harmful mission?
Even when his movies are derivate, till now, Shakti Soundar Rajan managed to provide us one central relationship that served as an emotional hook for us to remain invested within the proceedings. However right here, all we get are one-note characters and a bland set-up that features a half-hearted stab at constructing a romantic observe. These parts are so perfunctory – introduce the protagonist and his world, have a tune to point out the camaraderie between the hero and his staff introduce the battle, add a compulsory romance – that they barely do something for us. Even the bits involving the creature, which the movie describes as a minotaur, are sketchy. Some scientic mumbo jumbo, like bio radio alerts, and a little bit of eco messaging. It is all so uninvolving that we hardly take care of the survival of the characters. We get a doubtful scientist character, performed by Simran, and the director resorts to an archaic concept – an bold lady who’s OK with sleeping with somebody to achieve her objective – to ascertain this character.
However with the writing hardly giving them something to play with, the actors all carry out in clueless vogue. Past earnestness, Arya hardly shows any emotion, and it’s laborious to consider that it’s the identical actor who we had seen in Sarpatta Parambarai. Regardless of the gray shades in her character, Simran, too, comes throughout as a cardboard cutout. The much less stated about Aishwarya Lekshmi’s character the higher, for all it does is make us surprise how the actress, who picks up very attention-grabbing movies in Malayalam, stated okay to this position!.
Even the creature – the one cause to checkout the movie – is underwhelming. It appears like an affordable knock-off of the Predator in look, and does issues that an unintelligent villain does, together with not killing it is greatest menace – the hero – when it has the prospect. The identical might be stated of the movie, too – an underwhelming, underwritten motion film.
