Fresh out of Ajay Gnanamuthu's Cobra, and it honestly feels like I watched 2 entirely different movies pre and post interval. We start off with a somewhat underworld assassin crime thriller of sorts, which while over the top at moments, had its fair share of enjoyable bites. And then with the interval, we have what feels like an entirely new movie; one that feels like every other wannabe-posh Tamil action movie, where some characters already established in the first half start acting nothing like it in the second, and some more being entirely sidelined making us wonder why they were even included in the first place.
I wouldn't say Cobra is a bad movie, nor that its not enjoyable, but it's not groundbreaking in any way. It just gets ridiculously over the top with every passing minute, building up to a mind numbingly lazy and disappointing climax. Technically too this movie has a lot of weaknesses. The music is very easily forgettable, which sad given how such a statement could even be said about an ARR composed soundtrack. The VFX was painfully apparent in some scene. The makeup got somewhat cheesy, never leaving the uncanny valley; where you know you're not looking at an actual human face, but a heavily pasted prosthetic. And even certain shot selections seemed questionable.
Being as critical as I am about this movie is only because I engaged with it enough to care about its own internal consistencies. It's certainly not a movie you'll ever regret watching in a theatre, but it's not one you'll miss out on if you don't either.
Plot summary
A genius mathematician doubles up as a hit man, assassinating people opposing a ruthless corporate behemoth. While he manages to stay ahead of the Interpol and the psychotic head of the corporation, who are after him, can he evade the mysterious hacker who is keen to unmask him?
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April 14, 2023 at 11:00 AM
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Cobra is not one, but two different movies; both mid
boring, irritating and below average
Happened to watch much awaited Cobra
Exteremly disappointed seeing the pathetic take. Chiyaan's obessession - as we can say "multiple get ups" only worked out in Anniyan, from that movie till this , he only put effort in getting into costumes.
The movie lags like anything, it doesnt have a decent stunt, unnecessory romance, songs, I was amazed to see the extremly low quality of vfx, it felt like some kid used MS paint to add vfx into the movie.
Story is clieched, unbearable acting of Srinidhi Shetty, Mrinalini Ravi, Meenakshi Govindarajan. I felt too irritated witnessing their clieched dialogues and over acting
Not sure why Irfan Pathan acted as a sub hero role but he did his role well
There are many roles which felt completely unnecessory Mamukkoya, Robo Shankar, Anand Raj etc
AR Rahman's music is below average,
Roshan Mathew as a villain is a failed attempt.
More over the 20 minutes cut, they did it in the climax portion, which was again a blunder. The story itself made up like "If we prove the story is complicated, then it will run" too many dimensions ruined the story .
On the whole , not even worth watching for OTT (coming in Sony live)
Only for Vikram
Once again Vikram gave dedicative performance in a average movie . Story was good but screenplay was poor and clumsy . First half , had some intresting assassination sequence , romance part was totally meh and interval twist was good . Second half was totally clumsy writing . Direction wasn't upto the mark . Main positive was Interrogation room hallucination scene particularly Vikram gave a impressive performance in that scene . ARR music was good and eventhough songs were good its placement was poor in the movie . Technically , editing was poor and visually not appealing for ME . Finally , they tried something different in commercial cinema unfortunately misfired .