Kabali film review: Weapon of mass attraction
Kabali film review: Weapon of mass attraction The expectations from Kabali are as high as the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the setting for almost 80% of the movie, not least because it's a Rajinikanth movie. The reasons are varied: the audience need a taste of the Rajinikanth of yore, not a do-gooder Samaritan ( Lingaa ) or a CGI generated version of a warrior Prince ( Kochadaiiyaan ). Thalaivar fanatics just wanted him to have fun, which was rarely the case ever since Sivaji . The teasers of Kabali suggested Rajinikanth is back to his glory days of Basha , Padayappa and Pedarayudu . You wanted badass, you get industrial levels of badass in this Pa Ranjith movie. His previous film Madras had a delightful off-kilter sensibility. Sadly, here he spends too much time deifying his larger-than-life protagonist. And that makes the movie a giant 150-minute slog. It opens with the erstwhile gangster get...