Venue - Cinepolis, Seasons Mall, Pune
Audi - 04
Showtime - 02:00 PM
Status - 100%
The biggest issues of this "trend" is that most of the movies tends to be formula of the most successful movie of the list. Do you remember all those "Pretham/Yakshi movies of 90s when Aakashaganga became a sleeper hit? Indriyam, Summer Palace, Bhadra etc. The last time I recall a trend hyperlink movies which was commenced with Traffic. Now the neighboring movies becoming a huge success through psycho serial killer genre, we are now following that trend.
Forensic has all the cliches you see in the psycho serial killer genre. A victim is kidnapped, killed brutally and left it in public. Then we have a police officer in form of Rithika Xavier (Mamtha Mohandas), who really didn't have anything to contribute to the investigation other than moving here and there. So the cerebral part of the investigation is handled by an officer from the Forensic department, Samuel (Tovino Thomas), who is handpicked by Rithika (for reasons best known to her) and yet taking his suggestions seriously (then why did she bring him into the team??) because of a family issue. Then we see psycho killer killing one by one until Sam finds breakthrough. Of course there are some misunderstanding, misleads, psycho killer's past, bloody sequences to show brutality, etc etc.
Now except for some moments here n there which includes the interval block, there was nothing brilliant or fresh in any sequence. The makers have taken an anticipatory bail with a quote claiming, "The serial killer doesn't have any motive. The killing is the motive". So if you guys reach a point asking "What the heck?", this is thrown onto the face!!!! Still I couldn't understand certain things in the movie or in this current trend.
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Tovino was fine while Mamtha Mohandas was below average. Saiju Kurup was good while Giju John was bad. I really don't remember any other actors. Jakes Bejoy was the soul of the movie.
Overall, I am not impressed by the formula based thriller.
Ratings - 5/10