📽Leo (2023)

Watched Leo today in the cinemas.

Overall it is a decent watch. It has many things going for it — a good premise, technical brilliance and good action set pieces.

My biggest dissatisfaction with the movie was the writing. It lacks the drama required to justify the actions of its characters. It all feels flimsy, ridden with logical loose ends and very non-practical stuff.

Sample a couple of things that I just could not let it slide by—

• For being an animal rescuer, the titular character after been clawed in by a wild beast, doesn’t even bother to wash the wound. He is specifically shown to just see it in mirror, change his shirt and go about business as usual.
• In the climax the hero has setup traps along the walkway to his house, which his family is unaware of. Yeah it adds to the thrill, but if you are a parent and that too of a young child, you would know that this is just not how a parent would function. That too on the bloody walkway, for a unaware family that is indoors without you at home!

For a director who gave us Maanagaram and Kaithi (where the the ton of action was ably supported by the drama set pieces), this feels like a decline.

I just wish Lokesh takes some more time for some solid writing, instead of this frantic pace of movie making!