2.0 Film Review By Manya Malhotra

2.0

2.5
Sci-Fi

Cast: Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson, Sudhanshu Pandey, Adil Hussain

Director: S.Shankar

Story: After mobile phones start mysteriously disappearing from the city of Chennai, its up to Dr. Vaseegaran and robots Nila and Chitti to find answers.

Review: You want to use great VFX and CGI and make the film a visual treat for the audience, then please go ahead, I have no complaints. However, in doing so if you want to show us a man with wings flying around and stealing the cellphone’s of every single person in the city to get his revenge or teach them a lesson or whatever.. then that’s where you have lost me. A lot of research has gone into making this film and that shows. While researching about the concept of this film if a little research was done on how to hold the audience’s attention it would have been highly beneficial for some of us who fell asleep towards the end. (Or was it just me?) To give the film credit where it’s due an effort has been made to explain why this man is behaving the way he is and the makers have even tried to send out a message through the story. Frankly speaking, if 2.0 was 30 minutes shorter it would still have been watchable but towards the end it just became a bunch of powerful robots/ creatures/ evil thingies trying to kill each other. The fact that I saw the dubbed version of the film in hindi and most of the actors seemed to talk like robots themselves, didn’t help either. Also, to establish the evilness of a character it is not necessary to show them laughing in a creepy way, that just makes the whole thing unintentionally funny for the audience. (Superstar) Rajinikanth as the credits announced rather unsubtly plays a double role in this one. (Just) Akshay Kumar has less screen time but does complete justice to his character. 26 year old Amy Jackson is here too, opposite 67 year old Rajinikanth........just saying.

Sure, 2.0 is a visual delight but the cost of watching it ( tickets, popcorn, a mild headache and a lot of patience) is a bit too high! Watch at your own risk!

Comments

Sabba said…

Too funny! .. and yes the cost of watching it is too high!

9 December 2018 at 02:43

Sushila Sharma said…

I would say that this is hilarious...but then all of your reviews are! can't pick a favourite!

15 January 2019 at 06:45

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