Immortal Movie Synopsis:A young man gets trapped by a powerful mystical creature in a lonely apartment from which escape seems impossible.Immortal Movie Review: Mariyappan Chinna’s Immortal has the conventional horror film trope – a man gets trapped by an evil entity in a house from which there seems to be no escape – but what makes it slightly different is the fantasy angle that the filmmaker weaves into it.Instead of a ghost, we get a mystical creature – a vampire bat that can seemingly do everything, from turning into a human to knowing your thoughts and even making objects appear out of thin air. But unfortunately, the uniqueness ends there. The writing is so generic, with the filmmaker making up the rules of his universe as he goes along building a screenplay of convenience, with cardboard characters. The protagonist Magi (GV Prakash Kumar), who works in his uncle’s (Lollu Sabha Maran) printing press, is looking for a house, especially one that has a woman as a neighbour. Before we can begin to wonder at how many more times do we have to see GV Prakash play a lusty young man with no aspirations, Magi gets a call that is beyond his wettest dream – an offer from Sindhu (Kayadu Lohar), a young woman living in a premium multi-storey apartment, to move in with her. Obviously, Magi says yes the minute he checks out the place (and the girl). But it takes him quite a while to realise that there’s something wrong even in the simplest of things about the place. What’s the trap he’s fallen into? Who is Sindhu for real and what’s her connection to the events from 1,000 years ago that are shown in the prologue?Immortal plays out like a textbook of horror film templates with the blandest execution. In a film like Pizza, we worry about the Vijay Sethupathi character being trapped in a haunted house because of how the character has been presented to us, with relatable traits issues and motivations. Here, we hardly care for Magi and only feel that he deserves it as his entire personality can be defined as: a horny young man. Not surprisingly, the performances are just functional, with the team leaving it all to Kayadu Lohar’s glamour to rescue every underwhelming writing and filmmaking choice. Bereft of proper direction, the actress, who was so effective in the recent Idhayam Murali, tries hard, but the weak writing and generic score (by Sam CS) ensure that it’s never enough. The slick cinematography and the creature design are the only positives. No wonder then that for a film titled Immortal, ironically, there is very little about it that stays with us once it ends.
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