2017 · thriller · action · crime
Mersal
Directed by Atlee2h 41m2017
A few individuals in the medical profession are murdered or kidnapped, and the cop investigating the case suspects a doctor and arrests him. But is he the one who is behind these crimes? And why are they being committed?
Our read: Mersal (2017) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive thriller · action · crime entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured thriller / action, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- twisty
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“You want Tamil masala spectacle exposing hospital corruption with Vijay at full swagger.”
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