Remo

My review: Remo

"Remo" is 9th film for Sivakarthikeyan as a lead hero but still he has not learnt to act on his own other than in comical portions . A top mimic he is, he only mimics the actions of actors mainly Vijay, with situational mimicry of Rajnikanth, Karthik, Madhavan, Surya, etc as when the scene warrants. Even in the lady get-up what we she is a spoof acting that one can see in the Sivakarthikeyan's most famous TV show of the past, "Adhu Idhu Ethu". He can scrap through with such histrionics in movies like "Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam" and "Rajni Murugan" as emphasis is mainly on comedy in those movies, but when it comes to mass movies like "Kaakki Sattai" and for that matter even "Remo" his efforts can be seen as nothing  but a mimicry of a Vijay wannabe. 

Bakkiyaraj Kannan seems to be content with playing it safe with what he considers as the mandatory ingredients of a commercial entertainer, but only mistake is that all these ingredients are a decade older.  Good for nothing roadside romeo falling for a girl in matter of seconds, stalking a girl in the name of love, misogynist dialogues, female bashing love failure song, child sentiment, etc, etc, etc, have been battered to death in tamil cinema. Hence this movie is so predictable that it  just bores you no ends.

Coming to comedy which is Sivakarthikeyan's forte, this movie boasts of nothing in that regards, except may be couple of scenes in which now in form Yogi Babu enthrals. Keerthi Suresh is getting type cast as a "loosu ponnu" whether her character is a doctor or a makeup assistant. After a neat introduction in "Rajni Murugan", things are going downhill for her. Satish doesn't evoke any laughter anymore. Saranya is terribly typecast.

Movie's only positive is it's cinematography which is awesome. The colour tones are stuff only a legend like P.C.Sreeram can produce. Anirudh's music is only average. "Senjitaale" is a good song but others are letdown. background score is loud and scratchy. 

On the whole, Bakkiyaraj Kannan has wasted a golden opportunity. Touted to be a romantic comedy, "Remo" is neither romantic nor comical, utterly predictable and boring except couple of sequences here and there.

Bottomline: Misogynists' delight 

1.5/5