2.0 Movie Review - A Visual Treat
Shankar's ambitious 2.0 serves as a sequel to the 2010 film Robot which marks the return of Chitti and Vaseegaran along with a new humanoid Nila.
Cast - Rajinikanth, Amy Jackson, Akshay Kumar, Adil Hussain, Sudhanshu Pandey
Directed By - S. Shankar
Genre - Sci-Fi, Action
The film industry in India has started competing with the world in terms of the scale. It was Shankar who back in 2010 gave us his successful sci-fi movie Robot. With 2.0, he levels up his ambition and scale to deliver an experience that is worth your ticket price. As far as I know, it was shot using 3D cameras and not converted from 2D to 3D as is the general trend. So yes, the effects are delightful and eye-popping. The whole team has put in a lot of effort which does pay off in the technical department and which is the major highlight here. If heading to the theatres, I do recommend going for the 3D. Although the VFX were noticeable in parts, it was not at all bothering. But all the stunning CGI aside, does this film still succeed in its motives?
In 1963, Alfred Hitchcock made a movie called The Birds in which the birds start attacking the people in the area. 2.0 is the "digital" version of The Birds. Digital because the birds here are inside the mobile phones. We have already been shown in the trailers how Akshay Kumar's character, known as Pakshi Rajan, has a hatred towards the cellphones. His name says it all - Pakshi Rajan - protector of the birds. He loves them, cares for them and feeds them. From a flashback sequence, we come to know how he got interested in these creatures which led him to become an ornithologist. Something weird happens during that sequence which leads to all this love and care. Coming to the phones, well, the cell towers are destroying and killing them, so he hates phones, the people who use phones and the telecom companies.
One can say that 2.0 teaches us to spend quality time with our families and loved ones. It promotes verbal, face-to-face communication rather than texting or messaging on WhatsApp. All that is understandable, but the problem is, it doesn't stick to the subject at hand. It becomes clear how obsessed the makers became with all the CGI work, which I say again was fantastic, that the attention from the plot was slightly taken away. Many unexplained things happen around here like mobile phones cover up the whole road in a split second, doctors unable to scan a mobile under a patients body, mobile screens displaying images even after being shot at with gunfire, all these things are made to work conveniently according to the story without fully explaining them.
Now some may say not to overanalyse these things. Okay, let's accept them for the sake of entertainment. We don't need an explanation for them, but how do you accept the way Pakshi Rajan gets his superpowers? Before you say that I would have accepted it if it was a Hollywood film then no, you are wrong. To me, everything looked too convenient and tailor-made for the plot and the characters. A bird enters a hospital and sits on a babies chest. Any person naturally would try to keep the bird away from the just born baby, but here no one seems to notice while the bird even revives the baby and flies away. A few seconds later we come to know that a woman does see the bird but again everything is explained with a line - very conveniently. Even the message we were talking about, of not using the phones is again told to us with a line in the end. The thing is, it was never about any social message at all. It presents some facts, uses it as a tool for the plot and then dissolves into a big CGI fight - which was the main purpose after all.
There are many Rajini moments here to satisfy the fans. The main cast involving Rajinikanth, Amy Jackson and Akshay Kumar gave a remarkable and convincing performance which was expected from them. The other characters were sadly not as effective. An actor like Adil Hussain was underused, or you can say wasted. Sudhanshu Pandey returns as that villain who is bad for the plot's sake. His father was a villain (Robot), and so is he. He barely does anything and is there for coming up with the worst idea in a scene for the sake of "development".
On the bright side, 2.0 does successfully deliver what it promised - A grand, visually rich CGI ride. I do recommend going for 3D if you decide to watch it in the theatres, Coming out of the theatre I asked myself whether levelling up the scale is enough to make a satisfying movie. A story is like a driver which moves forward the various elements of the film. Then why does it take a backseat? Why can't both the scale and the story be balanced together? It's when we would learn to master both of them can we compete with the others.
Rating - 2.5/5
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Cast - Rajinikanth, Amy Jackson, Akshay Kumar, Adil Hussain, Sudhanshu Pandey
Directed By - S. Shankar
Genre - Sci-Fi, Action
The film industry in India has started competing with the world in terms of the scale. It was Shankar who back in 2010 gave us his successful sci-fi movie Robot. With 2.0, he levels up his ambition and scale to deliver an experience that is worth your ticket price. As far as I know, it was shot using 3D cameras and not converted from 2D to 3D as is the general trend. So yes, the effects are delightful and eye-popping. The whole team has put in a lot of effort which does pay off in the technical department and which is the major highlight here. If heading to the theatres, I do recommend going for the 3D. Although the VFX were noticeable in parts, it was not at all bothering. But all the stunning CGI aside, does this film still succeed in its motives?
In 1963, Alfred Hitchcock made a movie called The Birds in which the birds start attacking the people in the area. 2.0 is the "digital" version of The Birds. Digital because the birds here are inside the mobile phones. We have already been shown in the trailers how Akshay Kumar's character, known as Pakshi Rajan, has a hatred towards the cellphones. His name says it all - Pakshi Rajan - protector of the birds. He loves them, cares for them and feeds them. From a flashback sequence, we come to know how he got interested in these creatures which led him to become an ornithologist. Something weird happens during that sequence which leads to all this love and care. Coming to the phones, well, the cell towers are destroying and killing them, so he hates phones, the people who use phones and the telecom companies.
One can say that 2.0 teaches us to spend quality time with our families and loved ones. It promotes verbal, face-to-face communication rather than texting or messaging on WhatsApp. All that is understandable, but the problem is, it doesn't stick to the subject at hand. It becomes clear how obsessed the makers became with all the CGI work, which I say again was fantastic, that the attention from the plot was slightly taken away. Many unexplained things happen around here like mobile phones cover up the whole road in a split second, doctors unable to scan a mobile under a patients body, mobile screens displaying images even after being shot at with gunfire, all these things are made to work conveniently according to the story without fully explaining them.
Now some may say not to overanalyse these things. Okay, let's accept them for the sake of entertainment. We don't need an explanation for them, but how do you accept the way Pakshi Rajan gets his superpowers? Before you say that I would have accepted it if it was a Hollywood film then no, you are wrong. To me, everything looked too convenient and tailor-made for the plot and the characters. A bird enters a hospital and sits on a babies chest. Any person naturally would try to keep the bird away from the just born baby, but here no one seems to notice while the bird even revives the baby and flies away. A few seconds later we come to know that a woman does see the bird but again everything is explained with a line - very conveniently. Even the message we were talking about, of not using the phones is again told to us with a line in the end. The thing is, it was never about any social message at all. It presents some facts, uses it as a tool for the plot and then dissolves into a big CGI fight - which was the main purpose after all.
There are many Rajini moments here to satisfy the fans. The main cast involving Rajinikanth, Amy Jackson and Akshay Kumar gave a remarkable and convincing performance which was expected from them. The other characters were sadly not as effective. An actor like Adil Hussain was underused, or you can say wasted. Sudhanshu Pandey returns as that villain who is bad for the plot's sake. His father was a villain (Robot), and so is he. He barely does anything and is there for coming up with the worst idea in a scene for the sake of "development".
On the bright side, 2.0 does successfully deliver what it promised - A grand, visually rich CGI ride. I do recommend going for 3D if you decide to watch it in the theatres, Coming out of the theatre I asked myself whether levelling up the scale is enough to make a satisfying movie. A story is like a driver which moves forward the various elements of the film. Then why does it take a backseat? Why can't both the scale and the story be balanced together? It's when we would learn to master both of them can we compete with the others.
Rating - 2.5/5
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