Game Over

The writing of the film is good as the script has different layers. Sometimes it feels like you are watching a horror film and then proceedings have a lot of suspense and create good thrills especially in the second half.

One cannot say that it is a drawback but the entire first half is way too slow and takes forever to get to the actual point. 

One the whole, Game Over is a psychological thriller which gets interesting only in the second half. Taapsee leads from the from the front with her standout performance. 

Tapsee has carried this film frame by frame on her shoulders. As a lady with psychological disorder she excelled. The lady who played maid role has done decent job as well. 

GameOver is an intelligent, engaging, new age thriller that is genuinely terrifying at couple of moments. On the flip side, first half is patchy and theme of the film is complex for masses. This film will find critical acclaim, we need to wait and see about Box-office performance.

 

The film has less characters and almost entirely revolves around Taapsee and a maid. As a girl with a traumatic past and one who panics and one who takes on the perpetrators, she gets the act neatly.

The film has excellent technical skills. Cinematography is first rate; the cameraman has created the mood of a video game-like act and the dark visuals have really created gloomy effect.

Even the second half of the movie is totally set up up like a game, she keeps on dreaming, and every dream is like a check point. When she has lost point, she has no other option but to fight to survive.

I didn’t walk into Game Over expecting a Red Dead Redemption II poster in the heroine’s bedroom. The 2018 game is a moral struggle set around the fading of the Wild West, and a genuine milestone in game storytelling, with astounding details and an encouragingly interactive open world.

It’s a solid concept. The idea of a ‘memorial tattoo’ — where people mix a loved one’s remains into tattoo ink to keep them bonded under their skin — is novel, and feels both beautiful and macabre.

This could so easily have been a smart film. We are never told why the heroine loves or makes games.

Hollywood has time and again made films based on video games and Game Over is a novel attempt by director Ashwin Saravanan.

Taapsee returns to Telugu screen after playing the cunning con-woman in Neevevaro and she sinks her teeth into the character with élan.

The jump scares are more due to what the eyes can see and not because of a fear of the invisible and Vasanth’s cinematography does a good job of capturing them well.