My review: Miruthan
Ravi just sleep walks his way through the movie as does Lakshmi Menon. Kali Venkat's efforts to evoke laughter falls flat. R.N.R.Manohar irritates in one of the poorest written characters in recent times. Most of the extras look amateurish both in their heavy make-up as well in their over the top histrionics.
D.Iman's form seems to be fading after couple of stellar years. Songs are mediocre with only "Munnal Kadhali" striking a chord. Background score is loud and grimy.
Technically the movie is shoddy. Be it the make of the zombies which are a through back to the early 80's horror movies or the art direction where all they have done is to strew papers and burn couple of tires to show that the place is ravaged by the zombies with striking regularity be it in Ooty or the various landmark areas of Coimbatore. Paucity of both the budget and the imagination is evident by all these aberration which mar the movie to a great extent.
On the whole, "Miruthan" is how they would have made a zombie movie in Tamil in the 80's.
Bottomline: Mediocre and messy.
2/5
Touted to be the first Tamil zombie movie, Sakthi Sounder Rajan's "Miruthan" can be appreciated for making an attempt at this new genre. But making an attempt is one thing, doing justice to it is another. Take the case of "Miruthan". The writing and execution is so lackluster that the good intentions of introducing our viewers to a new concept goes down the drain in the final analysis. The writing is so dumbed down that the cognitive level that the director seem to have targeted is who are still in pre-school. I wonder if even them would find these proceedings interesting.
Too many digressions that dilute the seriousness of the main plot leaves you exasperated half way through the first half itself. Silly jokes, irritating gags, juvenile innuendos keep surfacing at the most important places which just make it impossible for you to keep engrossed with the proceedings. After a point you don't have any emotional connect with whatever happens on screen. The zombies keep cropping up like those animations that appear in the video games that you have to shoot down to gain points. Though the movie runs only for about two hours it bores you as nothing new is seen on the screen after the point when the whole town is infested with these zombies.
D.Iman's form seems to be fading after couple of stellar years. Songs are mediocre with only "Munnal Kadhali" striking a chord. Background score is loud and grimy.
Technically the movie is shoddy. Be it the make of the zombies which are a through back to the early 80's horror movies or the art direction where all they have done is to strew papers and burn couple of tires to show that the place is ravaged by the zombies with striking regularity be it in Ooty or the various landmark areas of Coimbatore. Paucity of both the budget and the imagination is evident by all these aberration which mar the movie to a great extent.
On the whole, "Miruthan" is how they would have made a zombie movie in Tamil in the 80's.
Bottomline: Mediocre and messy.
2/5
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