Good Bad Ugly Movie Review: Ajith & Adhik deliver a max masala!
Good Bad Ugly Movie Review: Critics Rating: 3.0 stars, click to give your rating/review, The good news is that for Ajith fans, the film is nothing short of a celebration of their idol, wit
Critic's Rating: 3.0/5
Good Bad Ugly Movie Synopsis: When his son is falsely jailed for a crime he didn't commit, a feared gangster who has reformed his ways, decides to take up his violent ways once again to save the boy and have his revenge.
Good Bad Ugly Movie Review: With Good Bad Ugly, director Adhik Ravichandran cooks up an unabashed fan vehicle for Ajith Kumar that's overloud, chaotic and still largely entertaining. The good news is that for Ajith fans, the film is nothing short of a celebration of their idol, with almost every scene a providing a callback to the superstar's older hits. Adhik's approach isn't exactly new. We had Karthik Subbaraj doing something similar with Petta, though the way in which that film packaged in the references now seems more understated compared to this one's in-your-face approach. But the end result is the same: the fans just love it.
But the bad news is that those who may not be fans of the actor or are looking for something substantial or are not clued into Tamil cinema's pop cultural moments might wonder what the fuss is all about.
And the ugly bit here is that seeing the wild response from fans, more filmmakers working with top stars are now likely to put fan service as their top priority over coming up with an engaging script that might appeal to all sections of the audience.
But all said and done, this is an out-and-out Ajith show, and the actor seems to have had great fun revisiting the iconic moments from his previous blockbusters. In his last few films (especially his previous film, Vidaamuyarchi), he seemed to have made a conscious decision to pull back on hero glorification. While such an approach did get him a few admirers among the general audience, fans were largely underwhelmed. And this one seems to be Ajith doing a course correction to keep fans happy.
And in Adhik, he seems to have found the right director to pull it off. Adhik's films so far have been largely polarising - you either like his style of filmmaking or hate it, with no in-between. But his is definitely a unique voice, especially in the realm of our mass masala films - overloud (but in a very different way compared to someone like Hari) and visually distinct (but poles apart from a Karthik Subbaraj). It is cinema of maximalism, often breaking the third wall, peppered with throwbacks, and with only one goal - to deliver a high every few minutes. More than mass masala, it's max masala!
Good Bad Ugly Movie Review: With Good Bad Ugly, director Adhik Ravichandran cooks up an unabashed fan vehicle for Ajith Kumar that's overloud, chaotic and still largely entertaining. The good news is that for Ajith fans, the film is nothing short of a celebration of their idol, with almost every scene a providing a callback to the superstar's older hits. Adhik's approach isn't exactly new. We had Karthik Subbaraj doing something similar with Petta, though the way in which that film packaged in the references now seems more understated compared to this one's in-your-face approach. But the end result is the same: the fans just love it.
But the bad news is that those who may not be fans of the actor or are looking for something substantial or are not clued into Tamil cinema's pop cultural moments might wonder what the fuss is all about.
And the ugly bit here is that seeing the wild response from fans, more filmmakers working with top stars are now likely to put fan service as their top priority over coming up with an engaging script that might appeal to all sections of the audience.
But all said and done, this is an out-and-out Ajith show, and the actor seems to have had great fun revisiting the iconic moments from his previous blockbusters. In his last few films (especially his previous film, Vidaamuyarchi), he seemed to have made a conscious decision to pull back on hero glorification. While such an approach did get him a few admirers among the general audience, fans were largely underwhelmed. And this one seems to be Ajith doing a course correction to keep fans happy.
And in Adhik, he seems to have found the right director to pull it off. Adhik's films so far have been largely polarising - you either like his style of filmmaking or hate it, with no in-between. But his is definitely a unique voice, especially in the realm of our mass masala films - overloud (but in a very different way compared to someone like Hari) and visually distinct (but poles apart from a Karthik Subbaraj). It is cinema of maximalism, often breaking the third wall, peppered with throwbacks, and with only one goal - to deliver a high every few minutes. More than mass masala, it's max masala!
