Weapon

chambers, refusing to look beyond and above their own fascinations and perspectives. Guhan Senniappan’s superhero film Weapon is the latest testimony to that. Despite all the fuss behind Marvel and DC’s poor show in the last five years; despite how some Hollywood productions have popularly managed to deal with growing superhero fatigue; despite previous attempts in Tamil cinema teaching us the perils of not rooting the story to the milieu; and even with an Indian title like Minnal Murali breaking formulas, we have Weapon, a two-hour showreel of done-to-dust superhero tropes that comes across more like a child’s make-believe story with action-figures..." Full review here: