Kannai Nambathey (2023) User Reviews

Actually liked it barring the last 45 minutes

[JakDexxter · 7/10 · 18 April 2023]

Just finished watching this movie on Netflix. I quite like the director's previous outing (Iravukku Ayiram Kangal) and the protagonist's previous outing (Kalaga Thalaivan).

Coming to Kannai Nambathey, I was actually quite impressed with first 90 minutes of the movie. Unfortunately, the same clarity in writing is not maintained in the last 45 minutes.

Had the last 45 minutes of the movie handled differently, the result would have been a little better. However, if you are into crime drama thrillers this a very good watch for the weekend.

Quite liked the performance of Vasundhara Kashyap. Snall role though.

Only Twists, not narration!

[sriramthestranger · 7/10 · 20 April 2023]

The story picks off when the protagonist decides to help a stranger and gets caught in a murder after murder case. The characters are all connected and looks too contrived. The reveal does not bring any surprise, and predictable at places. The motive of antagonist lacks punch, and is only focused on twists rather than a compelling narration.

The Director in the pursuit of surprising the audience made it difficult to comprehend and it just appears twist after twist with poorly established characters. Satish character and auto driver character are not needed for this storyline, but just kept for so called comedy relief!!

Totally messed up and poor screenplay.

[castingaloysius · 2/10 · 15 April 2023]

Plot could have been way better and movie direction could have been more systematic . Lost interest in the movie through mid way. Gained little bit attention when Srikant was shown on screen but the role failed to provide any justice to Srikant's character.

Throughout the movie I had a messed up feeling as if too much of information is being passed rather than building a sequence or building the character.

Logics in the movie did not make any sense and the fight scenes looked as if I was watching a 80's movie.

Bhumika did a good job and carried her role very well.

It is a one time watch movie and I would not recommend anyone for this movie.

Kudos to the hardwork and dedication shown by the cast and crew members to keep us entertained unfortunately this movie failed to impress me.

Unexciting twists - to and fro, loose story and nothing else

[appusnikhil · 3/10 · 4 June 2023]

The movie had a good start and I saw I'm going to witness another interesting Tamil thriller movie but sadly this was a total disappointment. The director just focussed on giving some twist instead of giving focus on the character development. Many characters are not even needed in the movie.

For a movie to be watchworthy then the creator should give focus on the screenplay and the story. Here he had a good story but the loose screenplay totally ruined the film and the lighting used for the film makes the movie duller.

The acting however was fine, I wont say great but it was just fine. Go for it if you are bored and I'm sure you are gonna fast forward it.

Big mess!

[ravikumarchandran · 1/10 · 18 April 2023]

There were some promises early in the movie deserving the one star rating. As the plot became more and more convoluted, the movie becomes bigger and bigger mess! I had some hope that it will all make sense somehow in the end and God I was so wrong!

The plot was thin. Had lot of holes all the way. Add the seemingly endless co-incidences and it is a recipe for a very poor movie! This movie is ripe with such impossible co-incidences where all the characters happen to be at the right place at the right time with the right weapons and right reasons!

I liked the ending because it was the end of the excruciatingly painful movie!

God, I wish I did not see this!

CRAP

[saru2020 · 1/10 · 13 August 2023]

This is probably the worst movie of the decade from Tamil Cinema, what a waste of time, energy, money, and other resources.

Though the plot was good enough to make a good film, the screenplay was so poorly designed and the overall making was spoiled so much that it felt like watching something awful.

All the characters probably did their job well as was expected but the overall outcome felt like a mix of awful in-digestible ingredients stirred up.

The reason I watched this anti-EPIC was just because of the protagonist as he has recently chosen somewhat decent scripts but this one was utter nonsense and the last phone call from ArulNidhi just didn't work at all.

A total waste of time.

A Big Mess Up

[yasiru1991 · 1/10 · 4 May 2023]

Story is really boring . Story has huge plot holes which makes you leave the film halfway. Director tries to make a fancy thriller movie plot by connecting dots of several events. But he failed it really badly and resulted in no continuous story whatsoever. Director/Writer was trying to mimic a great thriller crime genre movie but springing a surprise twist at the end. But there was terrible connection with the events and the way film connected the events was hilarious.

Indian cinema have produced some fantastic storylines under this genre such as Raatchasan but this movie seems just a commercial movie made hurriedly for Netflix.

Please avoid watching this.!