First of all, thank you Cliff for bringing this to my attention. Secondly, screw you Cliff for bringing this to my attention.
Enthiran (or Robot) is a film from India that is basically their Avatar. I mean, it looks and seems more like a mix of Robocop, The Terminator, The Matrix Revolutions, and Electric Dreams but it has profited like James Cameron’s juggernaut. It’s their biggest film and I don’t know if you are aware, it’s an understatement to say that India makes a lot of movies.
The movie is about a man who creates a robot and it goes bonkers. Straight bonkers.
What the movie is really about is unloading millions of pixels into your face at a retarded pace.
First watch the tame trailer. You won’t want to every see a moment of it ever again:
Now watch this and have your ass blown out your ass hilariously. It’s like the ill-advised physics of the Burly Brawl given three times as much screentime and treated with the subtlety and grace of Dragon Wars as envisioned by Mega-Alligator vs. Terror Shrimp:
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Now smoke a cigarette.
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WHY
Holy. Fuck.
There’s something so deliriously “kitchen-sink” about it (much like a lot of Indian cinema) – what it lacks in subtlety or budget, it makes up for in sheer bug-shit insanity and enthusiasm.
In its own way, that was awesome!
I’ll gladly see any film edited by Anthony.
And somehwere, Kurt Wimmer is seeing this and saying, “FINALLY!! Something that makes Ultraviolet look SUBTLE!!”
At least Ms. Rai is in the first film. You can just stare at her and think of nothing else.
if this was american youd be lauding it as a geek masterpiece and making excuses for the bad rendering. Some of the rendering, from what i can see is quite good. Statham wishes he was in action scenes of this calibre.
I’ve never wanted to see a movie this badly that I don’t want to see.
Ah, this has to be why MATRIX 4 & 5 are suddenly in the works. All those Smiths and not a single “Form Of …!” gag.
Some great hair in that trailer. Also, the part when the guy runs along the side of the train and hoofs some bloke in the face is awesome.
I notice that A.R.Rahman is credited with the music. He once wrote a musical with Andrew Lloyd Webber. I’m sad to know this.
All that jibber jabber is givin’ me a headache.
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