Antony Tamil Movie Review by Praveena | Lal, Nishanth, Paul Michael | Antony Movie Review
Antony Tamil Movie Review by Praveena | Lal, Nishanth, Paul
Michael, Kuttii Kumar | Antony Movie Review
What would you do if you wake up to
find yourself buried underground in a car with nothing to help you escape? That
is the premise of India’s first and the much-hyped claustrophobic film, Antony.
A cop, Antony, finds himself trapped
in a car when he wakes up and all he sees around him is darkness. The only
source of light is that of the car and he struggles to find a way out. He seems
to have left his phone behind and is unable to recollect how he got himself
into this situation.Meanwhile, his girlfriend, Maha is waiting to get married
to him at the registration office with the help of Antony’s father played by
Lal.
The film that should have been a race
against time becomes a drag within the first 20 minutes as it is ridden with
huge plot holes. For instance, in a bid to recall, the protagonist remembers
that he had a lot to drink with his father and friends on the occasion day
before his marriage. He remembers driving through a storm, and then he draws
blank. This is exactly how the audience feels throughout the film.
The people on the outside who are
supposed to rescue him are doing a half-assed job while Antony just comes up
with innovative ideas to stay alive. For instance, Maha was almost kidnapped a
few days ago and Antony got into a tussle with a mean man called Kiruba, but
she doesn’t recall this for the longest time. Lal, as the father, tries to
portray the frustration by chain smoking, and his friends, who are supposed to
help him rescue Antony, kill the goons who are supposed to be giving them a
lead on where Antony is.
If this was not enough to have you
exclaim ‘What is wrong with these people?’, we have Antony rummage through his
car storage to find cello tape, long thread and steel rods. There are other
things that he uses to hold the car together, as he finds that he is in fact
buried underground. It is at this moment that we see why the movie was rumored
to be a rip-off of Ryan Reynolds’ film Buried.
However, it is nowhere close. Antony
oscillates between trying to find out who buried him by going through a list of
his enemies and thinking about Maha. He holds on to his dear life for Maha,
even as he hurts himself trying to finding a way out, being hungry and thirsty
and bleeding.
Sadly, the audience might not
understand what Antony is hoping to achieve through his actions. He uses his
strength to push through rods connected by ropes through the ground and finds a
way to draw in oxygen and breathe. But when the car battery runs out and the
light goes out. He uses a lighter, which is in itself a dangerous act in a
closed space with not much oxygen, but he lights a newspaper and let’s smoke
through the rods. If this was supposed to be a smoke signal, it doesn’t come
across too well.
The film further suffers from bad
sound design, which more often than not is out of sync with what is progressing
on screen.The film with a promising premise loses to bad writing, poor
performances by the actors and the sound. The one take away remains the visuals
of the film, which are impressive.
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