Director: Prithviraj Sukumaran.I only watched this because someone whose film tastes I appreciated recommended it. Oh boy, was I wrong for that. Now I see how the person who recommended this to me is supporting propaganda. I won't be listening to his recommendations again.The outrage over it is groundless, though. The film fails in the shocking political ideologies down our throat as well, even with using the classic “balancing act” — throwing in Muslim terrorists to show an equal threat to Hindustan, while explaining Hindutva terrorism as merely a symptom of "politics gone wrong"? That’s a bit too neat. On the surface, the film appears anti-Sangh, which, let’s be honest, is still a big deal in today's India, but it ultimately reduces the Left and Congress to little more than irrelevant jesters, trembling in the shadow of Hindutva. Instead of showing Hindutva as wrong, they showed how incompetent the Left is. The censoring and banning of the film makes no sense. It is a shit film irrespective of its political agendas.The politics of the film just left me puzzled. His grasp of national and local political currents still seems rooted in a kind of hollow, pseudo-balanced centrism that ends up being apolitical and even borderline anti-democratic.I had thought that Malayalam cinema is the future of India, but watching such types of films makes me feel that, luckily, they have made some good films in recent years otherwise, they just make mediocre to shitty works.Till now I had seen shitty right wing propaganda but this is the first left wing propoganda release I have seen in recent years.This film is a premium quality of recycled slop, which has been reused many times before. The action, the BGM, and even the set design are all copied from films of this massy nature in the past.The original was massy slop but even that was at least mindlessly enjoyable, this one though is straight up crap.The writing in this is in no way good enough, and the acting itself is flawed. There are also unnecessary scenes in the film, like when Govardhan meets Qureshi. Govardhan is seen carrying a 1990 model satellite phone that is impossible to hack. The super-secretive Qureshi meets him at one of the most popular places on Earth instead of meeting him at some undisclosed location or somewhere private, but no, they. I think the scene only exists so that Sukumaran gets something to film abroad.The angle of rival cartels is also thoroughly uninteresting and downright boring.Mohanlal acted in this film only because it is a sequel otherwise I don't think an actor of his calibre should be doing such shitty films.There are also needless scenes of violence against random people which adds fucking nothing to the movie except some kind of trauma porn. Also, the atrocious score keeps on playing even with its lack of tension. Even if the music was designed to create tension, playing it the entire god damn time makes it nonsensical. It made it difficult to understand what the characters are saying sometimes as well. It is good, I watched it at home, otherwise I would have had to ask for double my money back from the guy who recommended this subpar work to me.The film is rightfully called L2 because it is double the L.
Director: Prithviraj Sukumaran.I only watched this because someone whose film tastes I appreciated recommended it. Oh boy, was I wrong for that. Now I see how the person who recommended this to me is supporting propaganda. I won't be listening to his recommendations again.The outrage over it is groundless, though. The film fails in the shocking political ideologies down our throat as well, even with using the classic “balancing act” — throwing in Muslim terrorists to show an equal threat to Hindustan, while explaining Hindutva terrorism as merely a symptom of "politics gone wrong"? That’s a bit too neat. On the surface, the film appears anti-Sangh, which, let’s be honest, is still a big deal in today's India, but it ultimately reduces the Left and Congress to little more than irrelevant jesters, trembling in the shadow of Hindutva. Instead of showing Hindutva as wrong, they showed how incompetent the Left is. The censoring and banning of the film makes no sense. It is a shit film irrespective of its political agendas.The politics of the film just left me puzzled. His grasp of national and local political currents still seems rooted in a kind of hollow, pseudo-balanced centrism that ends up being apolitical and even borderline anti-democratic.I had thought that Malayalam cinema is the future of India, but watching such types of films makes me feel that, luckily, they have made some good films in recent years otherwise, they just make mediocre to shitty works.Till now I had seen shitty right wing propaganda but this is the first left wing propoganda release I have seen in recent years.This film is a premium quality of recycled slop, which has been reused many times before. The action, the BGM, and even the set design are all copied from films of this massy nature in the past.The original was massy slop but even that was at least mindlessly enjoyable, this one though is straight up crap.The writing in this is in no way good enough, and the acting itself is flawed. There are also unnecessary scenes in the film, like when Govardhan meets Qureshi. Govardhan is seen carrying a 1990 model satellite phone that is impossible to hack. The super-secretive Qureshi meets him at one of the most popular places on Earth instead of meeting him at some undisclosed location or somewhere private, but no, they. I think the scene only exists so that Sukumaran gets something to film abroad.The angle of rival cartels is also thoroughly uninteresting and downright boring.Mohanlal acted in this film only because it is a sequel otherwise I don't think an actor of his calibre should be doing such shitty films.There are also needless scenes of violence against random people which adds fucking nothing to the movie except some kind of trauma porn. Also, the atrocious score keeps on playing even with its lack of tension. Even if the music was designed to create tension, playing it the entire god damn time makes it nonsensical. It made it difficult to understand what the characters are saying sometimes as well. It is good, I watched it at home, otherwise I would have had to ask for double my money back from the guy who recommended this subpar work to me.The film is rightfully called L2 because it is double the L.
