Review of the movie Game Over: An unequal affair

The cast of Game Over: Taapsee Pannu, Vinodini Vaidyanathan, Sanchana Natrajan, Ramya Subramanian, Anish Kuruvilla
Director of the movie Game Over: Ashwin Saravanan
Movie note: A star and a half

What would you do if you were petrified by the darkness after a traumatic incident? Game Over rises quickly to the main act, in which the shaken Swapna (Pannu) was trying to rebuild her courage, using her work as a distraction, and her loving housekeeper Kalamma (Vaidyanathan) as companion.

The prelude has some horrific murders and the victims are all young nubile women. So we know that sooner or later, Swapna will be the target: no surprises there.

We saw Pannu grow as an actress in her latest films (Manmarziyaan, Mulk) and here she is almost in the center of the frame almost all the time. The work of the films that rub shoulders with this trope – a young woman terrorized in the dark – is to foresee enough surprises and keep us on the edge of the razor. In this regard, Game Over fails the test.

The writing is blurry, the key sequences are repeated, the threads that are woven into the plot are weakly treated: a tattoo and the tattoo artist plays a role, just like a mother in mourning. but at no time do these elements feel entangled. Even worse, the disclosure comes too early and suspense escapes.

In addition, we ask ourselves too many questions: why are Swapna's inner arrangements what they are? Who are the bad guys? Why do they do what they do? Is it about a horror / supernatural movie or killers on the street? There is confusion and we are confused.

The other problem is the dubbing in Hindi (the film is shot in Telugu / Tamil) and, in too many places, the lines seem out of sync.

Clearly, Pannu worked hard. , and there are some really scary moments, but the rest is too stretched: even the 102 minutes run time seems too long.