Endhiran

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Movies: Science Fiction/Fantasy: Endhiran
By Luigi Novi (Luigi_novi) on Wednesday, February 02, 2011 - 4:28 pm:

Has anyone else seen this?

It's kinda cool, kinda cheesy. Some aspects of the effects are kinda bad (the wirework of Chitti, the main character, barreling through the car's windshield with his victim at about :27; the shot of him jumping onto the police car at 1:06, some of the greenscreen effects, etc.) On the other hand, some of the effects shots are pretty good, and way the story uses his magnetic abilities (and those of his "brothers") to create a shapeshifting mass of robots are pretty clever, and fun to watch, with each application of them expanding on and topping the previous one. The shots of the sphere and the snake, for example, actually seem fairly good, especially the medium and faraway shots, and the giant humanoid form looked really good. I actually wanted to know what happens next.

---Nits
At about :45, Chitti's car narrowly passes between two trucks. A second after his car passes them, he jumps from his car back toward them, landing in that very space, latching onto the front corner of those two trucks with each of his hands. But if the two trucks were spaced just far enough apart to accommodate the width of a car, then they were too far apart for the armspan of a humanoid. You can tell the space narrows just by looking at the scene, and there's not enough time between the split-second shots for the trucks to have moved closer together.

Shortly after Chitti creates a sphere of himself and his "brothers", they fly apart. But if he could do that, why did he initially battle the cops on the highway with guns? Why not just fly away? Why does he never do so in that sequence? (Can I assume that he never does so in the entire film up to this last, ten-minute section of it? If so, why not?)


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