 Wow You did but it bears repeating it helps the algorithm as you guys know which nothing in more in case you didn't know We live in the age of the algorithm nothing matters more help the algorithm help the algorithm wins always always Anyways today, we're doing a movie of you of the 2019 film Kythie And it's because And that was the comment on the YouTube thing like I saw the main header comment It was how many of you here to watch this because of Vikram coming out and you were told you should watch this before yeah We're we're in that group same same director as Vikram in which we are going to see today in just a few hours Actually, yep, and we the director came out I think on Twitter and then he was like I'm very excited about this film blah blah blah Please refresh your knowledge on Kythie. There you go my film before this and obviously everybody else obviously echoes those sentiments directed by Forgive the mispronunciation because it will be it's low cash I believe Kanagara and he also wrote it as well and then it's Starring Karthi as well and then a whole bunch of slew of the people yeah Karthi is the the the lead in this one. It's a Karthi and Kythie. Yeah Am I pronouncing it correctly? Yeah, you are you're good. So it's just a one letter differentiation. It's an action crime thriller That's true 2019 will be a hundred cents more if you haven't watched it go watch it come back It's on Amazon. We had to rent it on Amazon. It was nowhere It's I think it's on YouTube for free, but there was a bunch of ads yeah ton of ads and so every every seven minutes I don't want to watch a film with that. Yeah, especially a two-hour 20 runtime because that adds another like 25 30 minutes to it Absolutely, so it's be a hundred cents more if I want you to go watch it come back Rick your initial talk Talk about a mixed bag for me Ultimately more to like than complain about the stuff that I have a complaint about I'll share in a little bit but ultimately I I I enjoyed myself for the most part. There was far more to like about it than dislike Although the thing I dislike that I'll say in a moment really bother me however It's it it was there was some mixed bag literally some things in it that were Astonishingly good and then some other things that were astonishingly bad. Yeah, I actually really enjoyed this one But I do I have some stuff. It's it's mixed as well. Yeah, but I have a lot of notes I I actually thoroughly enjoyed it and I went in with almost no expectation because I right I we actually we've reacted to the trailer, but it was almost over two years ago And so I don't I don't even remember it. I don't remember Jack shit Yeah, I watch our thing and we were very excited to watch it because obviously a bunch of action and all that kind of stuff And but I didn't sure love the stunts anything. Yeah, but this is actually what I was expecting from Pushpa That's I guess if this I agree if push push gave us this I would have been very happy agreed Because obviously I wasn't expecting in terms of like acting gold or like this Incredible plot or anything like that from push, but I was expecting good action and fun and a simple story. Yeah Yeah, which is what you get here. I get that here. Yep, but I totally agree. And also I heard it was a Ridiculously low, but it's like 18 core. How do you say it core course? Yeah 18 course really I'm gonna do the math because last time I did some notes so that I always had it here for me to Reference so one crore is 10 million rupees, which comes out to like a hundred and thirty thousand dollars So how many crore 18 I believe so 18 crore so barely barely two million dollars American Barely a two million dollar budget. I mean, I obviously I know money is different and true you get for your buck but They did a phenomenal job for that little for an action film like this I agree, which I think the and we'll get into it all right now But I think the highlights for me are the cinematography score and editing. Yep of this film. Yep I man They were it was incredible some of the stuff they did with camera work and come on and and in cinematography in the That the I gotta say it. It's in here. I have it in caps that shot Between the three vehicles starting from the back of the farthest vehicle going straight through and in an action in the cab Yeah action in the front and then out the window into the next car. Yeah with all the action and the stuff Is that a wire? Do you think drone? I I I don't know. Yeah, I was it some CGI There was there was some CGI involved because they went through hard things and and windshields Yeah, so it was a pretty seamless Use of visual effects and editing It was like okay now you're you already impressed me with your cinematography and your gorgeous lighting Yeah, especially at night the lighting in this thing. Oh my stars Incredible like the tech I mean from there's a few technical things that I can gripe on but I have a continuity. Yeah Yeah, yeah, but the in terms of like cinematography gorgeous lighting gorgeous production design production design gorgeous just Everything outside of you know, it's still being dubbed But I if it's only two million dollars and I gotta say I wrote this in my notes. This is one again Dubbing sucks it it I hate it. We're talking about like Sound yeah non-sink sound is what we're talking about in a different sometimes you have to do ADR and that's it's inevitable because you miss something We're talking about million dollars. This was some of the best dubbing I've ever heard Yeah, I I thought they did a really good great job on the dubbing So like I don't know if this guy the director like location Was he originally a editor because we sometimes see that like when like that's the yeah Like I mean there's there's a there's more than just the standouts in the technical sides But when those are the main standouts you're like this guy clearly Loves editing. Yeah loves like putting film together in that way. Yep. Like I think the director of That that Fafa won the boat. He was on the internet. Oh, yeah The one that was during the pandemic. Yes. Yes. Yes. You soon that guy's an editor, right, right? We see that a lot actually But yeah, the way they edited the fight scenes. Yeah, and which I loved the fight scene I did too. I thought they were so fun. They were a lot of fun. They were like And I saw something like I've kind of given up on like saying like, oh, how could he do that? I I've kind of bought in into the Indian to a certain extent to the certain extent to a certain extent because that's one of the gripes I'll have a moment, but in terms of These they're just larger-than-life superheroes. Yeah. RRR is what helped me understand. Oh, you're a superhero Just because you're the hero. Yeah. Yeah makes it. Yeah, so I bought into that right and and I like I said I didn't have any expectations for this But as it went on and and I was impressed by all the technical sides and then the fighting was a lot of fun I would have actually preferred even more gruesome at times, but once again, it's 2 million bucks. Really? And I imagine for Vikram. He's gonna have a lot more I would say the last time I saw a film where I was so impressed with the Proverbial bang for your buck was rental Manari. Yeah, that's the last time I saw a film that I knew they had so little to use and did so much with it Yeah But and also so the score in this So fun one of the few times I've listened to a score and thought you know what go ahead and overscore it Go ahead. I'm loving what you're doing with the music so much They were only a few times a few times The emotional yeah, it got a little much, but it was every time the music came in. I was like it's great Yeah, yeah, great score. I'm very excited because it in Vikram. Mm-hmm. What's his face? The composer sorry that's okay in a rude. Yeah, Ravi Jandar. Yeah And all that's all yeah It's gonna be a similar rock because I think Vikram's gonna have a very similar vibe to the film Obviously you got three Probably much stronger actors. I don't think anybody's gonna disagree with that, right? Yeah in terms of Kamahasan Vik Vijay and in Fafa By the way, it's selling out here. Yeah, oh geez every single show I we we had to wait for for multiple reasons to watch it today But it was we heard like the front row almost yeah Because it's sold out everywhere We we were looking at the the things expecting we were gonna be fine and he sends me a text that goes we may have screwed out But anyway, but yeah, so I'm thinking you're gonna have a similar vibe in terms of score I think this is a pure action film Like I you know how we were disappointed with like push-by and stuff like that I'm not thinking we're gonna have that if it's anything like this. Yeah No, and I'm looking forward to what it is that's from this film that we need to have known Yeah, I'm going into this one. Yeah, I think they're I think what they said is they're trying to build a universe Yeah, okay, they're all like everything it's not a sequel, right? But you might see some people there might be some connections connection world in all that kind of stuff All that kind of stuff, but yeah, I love the score in this this film me too. It was Rock vibe to it. Mm-hmm. Just a unique some quirky to it. Yeah, I was good I don't think we shouted them out either so no the composer for this was Sam Cs Sam that's the listing on IMDB. I thought he did a great job phenomenal job. Once again lighting department cinematographer Yes, all of the tech of Sathya and sorting it all of the technical aspects of it are The best part. Yeah, but by far they built the world editing sound lighting cinematography And all of that also includes the lesser things that you see and you're wondering What's that on the credits when they talk about the gaffer and the ring and rigging and best boys That's all electrical and the people who hang the things they hang the lights they hang the you know It's so the whole technical crew did a spectacular job. They did a really good job making a very fun movie Let's talk about Kythi. Yeah, because obviously he's our main star, right? I thought he did a good job. I did it a very serviceable job in this role Yeah, and because obviously he wasn't asked to like carry it in terms of acting in terms of like this big Right emotional performance, but I believed in I believed he was about kind of like similar in KGF one I believed Yash was a badass. Yep, and I believed he could do the things that he wanted to do, right? And I believed his he had emotional availability. I wish there's just nothing you can do about it when you're not filming in sync But his nice little monologue Yeah Suffered because it was dubbed. Yeah, and it was still he still did a great job Yeah, you just lose the emotional connectivity. It cannot be replicated. You can't be in the moment twice Yep. Nope. Not not in the same moment. No, sure And I don't want to harp on it, but this is just I think I really like this home I think I could have loved it even more if they would have given the actors the I mean I get it It's money and all that yeah the opportunity to actually hear them on the day I agree because it we had always never always takes something away from the performance and the believability Always doesn't mean it's gonna be bad. No, it's gonna take it away And I think almost everybody and at least the main people did a good job Yeah, nobody could have been a much better job. Thankfully there were no white actors. Nobody was bad Everybody did a solid job. So I thought he did a really really good job. Yeah, I did too And I really enjoyed his performance everybody else. I thought did fine. Yeah, and I don't think anybody really there was some I mean the crying guy with them all the time. He kind of added some comedy Yeah, and so that's kind of reminded me at points It reminded me a little bit of like Mad Max when they're on the road and they've got that guy That's with them as their little sidekick. Yeah guy who's constantly got the blood on him And you know it kind of reminded me of that and I also appreciated that the bad guys They they were almost at the line, but they never got to it across the line of being your stereotypical bad guy Yeah, you know, even when he's doing the fiendish laugh when the guy's throat was slit and I was like, okay Not too much. Yeah, but it was still I enjoyed the bad guys Yeah, yeah, if you and that's what I was saying with with like I thought it was a question with pushbar I expected pushbar to have some flaws I'd have been happy with push both it was this good, but Give me some action. Give me some fun. Give me stuff in the cinematography that I'm like, oh, this is great I'm just enjoying myself right now. Yes, and then I can forgive some of your other flaws This is also a great example of how you don't have to have an important story or a deeply Complicated or compelling story. This is a really simple. They tell you about the entire thing in the beginning It's a very simple story that for the run time It only dragged for me in a small section of the drive before they got to the standoff because I love that standoff So standoff yeah once once they hit the branches and the windshields, which is beautiful the glass flying it on them Great job. There was just there was a slight drag compared to the rest because it started off nice Yeah, I agree that right before that that tree thing. Yeah, there's a little bit of a drag I do and I also felt I compelled a level of care to see this guy get to his daughter Yeah, I felt that was a good why for his character That let me see if there's other positivity things because I wrote so many things You know love the score best of sound it did start to drag cinematography and lighting and that shot the standoff So the only the only other things now I would have would be a couple of things that okay Really bothered me go ahead with the first one that really there's three, okay? There were a couple of major continuity problems. The first one was when our bad guy The brother who's trying to save his other brother when he did his big snort of cocaine and got cocaine all over his nose and his face When he was fighting it was gone. Yeah, the other continuity issue was when our Main character with Karthi when when he gets stabbed and slashed there was some moments There was no blood on his back But the other thing that was even more bothersome to me. I loved that I didn't see the backstab coming Yeah, I didn't either that was that was nice, but okay So it's one thing to ask your audience to strain credulity which we get in an action film Especially an Indian action film straining credulity is pushing you to the edge of believability and almost going past it That's one thing reaching the point of absurdly impossible Blows me out of the appreciation There is no way anybody unless you're doing an absurdist movie where the whole thing is absurdist No one gets stabbed in the back twice and then slashed in the back twice and Does what he does and survives and then Holds a freaking m134 that nobody even in their strongest healthiest moment could hold That for me was the big kicker that dropped it from me from being something I was really loving to like Now you're insulting me. I didn't I didn't find it insulting Nobody can know I not even come close to that. I'm not debating that aspect I totally obviously he got stabbed and I was like and and there's pride Predominantly, it's pride on predominantly meant to be a story that you're believing the activity with some straining Credulity and some of the stunt work. Yeah defying physics. Yeah, but that for me was like Yeah, it's just I I mean, of course, I would prefer a much more believable always, but and no guys You can't you get unless unless you are a superhero Which I don't I guess was he supposed to be a superhero It's just when you're when you have a film that for the most part is trying to stay grounded in reality Like a real gang thing and a real thing to go to the place of you know bulletproof now I think even though I do agree. It was strange when he got up after being stabbed. I do twice and then slashed I'm not saying it wasn't But it's just I literally wasn't thinking too much into it at that point. I was like, okay, cool I thought the machine gun moment was really cool. We see where it comes from in Vikram now, obviously Obviously then in the trailer that we saw obviously and so when everybody said it was a kithy moment. I understand I get it Totally get it. It didn't and I had the same feeling obviously when he got up. I was a Not really believable. Okay A bunch more people in the face, please. Thank you so much. Yeah, I agree and I do agree. It's a flaw I I really enjoy the Rambo kind of which it is very Rambo, isn't it? Yeah, I really enjoy the Rambo kind of Holding of the machine gun and shooting it the way you do but the gun that Stallone's holding in Rambo Wasn't even remotely close to the level of that style of Gatling gun and the way it has and the actual Kick that it gives. It's just those are mounted Weapons that are really cool cinematically but when you have a again a film that for the most part is trying to make you believe what's happening is kind of Grounded except for the big fight scenes those so those those were my idea I think I could just kind of equate at that moment to also those Outlandish moments in some of the fight scenes and so that's it's I don't think it bothered me as much But I just I understand where you're coming from and I still thought the exact same thing Yeah, Wayne obviously got it from being kind of like you'd probably be bleeding out, but okay Not probably yeah, you would have 100% you would be dead, but even still it didn't ruin my experience of this film I still had a blast. No, that's why I can have a strong gripe about something on the hunt piano playing and still love a movie And still love a movie Just don't rant about it Rick. Just don't rant about another thing I Really enjoyed this film and it I don't maybe if Yeah, I don't know because I obviously certain times with a grade certain times We have certain expectations for certain films Vickram obviously high expectations, right? I'm actually happy. We saw this before but I am I'm actually expecting something along along this line And so I have a parameter in my mind agreed I'm actually I'm expecting better acting in terms of even though it was not bad in here, but it's just some of those three actors Yeah, I'm not expecting like a thespian style film. No, I think it's going to be an action film I do too I think it's gonna be an action film and if they give me this style of action and fun agreed I think it can be so what what I'm gonna go with you great on the grading system out of 100 Yeah on a scale of 0 to 100 give it a grade. I'd give it probably an 82. I was gonna say an 83 So we're right on the money. Yeah solid B I think it was a lot of fun if I didn't have those other moments with like yeah blatant continuity failure and The credulity being exploded. I think if it had more money, you probably could have solved some of the issue I was not the maybe getting up obviously Yeah, yeah, no, but I'm talking like continuity that helps when you have more money because obviously there's more people people Keep their eyes on things you also have time sometimes you catch it afterwards and there's nothing you can do You can do dubbing you can do via you could you can add some people miss the onset They'll miss continuity and they'll see it in post and they'll have a special effects crew that can add it And they could put the cocaine on his face They could put the blood on his back so that so I get it. I agree. There's there's that's where there's grace You can so solid B But the fact that it kept me engaged almost the entire time agreed and it was a lot of far more to like I would watch it again. Yep I'm glad we watched it before just so I have a parameter for what I'm expecting from Vikram I think you you phrased it the the takeaway line from this would be it's the movie. We wanted push, but it be I Don't know if that upsets you sorry And you know what we live in a world where people have different opinions about movies and it's really okay You don't have to be thought moonlight was better than La La Land. I didn't Now you're just an idiot Anyways, let us know what you thought about this film and yes We were watching we're going to Vikram and say two hours two hours Yep, and what should be the next Tamil film outside of these two that we should watch down below