I was looking forward to Retro so much after the spectacular DoubleX. On paper, it has everything to be great: a writer who knows his craft, a music director who knows exactly what works for the movie, the lead actor producing it, a production house that has backed good works of art, and all the hype was positive until the release. It has been two days since I watched it, and I’m still wondering how the hell did this fantastic bunch of people make such a terrible movie.
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Where do I even start.
Nelson also probably had the same question when he had to make this movie. Without finding much answers, he stuck with the usual formula that everyone thinks vijay’s fans enjoy for some reason? Action-Sentiment-Comedy-Romance. He ticked all these boxes in the first 10 mins of the movie, starting with Vijay helping a child out and then accidentally killing it, single handedly defeating all of the terrorists in a foreign territory, sexist and inappropriate jokes about women, psychiatry and PTSD, and then followed by the tomboy girl acting cool with the hero and hero wanting to hold the girl’s iduppu. The movie had everything and every single thing was made in the worst possible way.
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