Captain Review…production worked against this movie

Year: 2022
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Action
Cast: Arya, Simran, Harish Uthaman, Kavya Shetty, Raj Bharath, Gokulnath, Adithya Menon, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Thiagarajan, Malavika Avinash
Director: Shakti Soundar Rajan
Writer: Shakti Soundar Rajan
Cinematographer: S. Yuva
Summary: A weird phenomenon is taking place in a forestial area: Aliens, named Minotaurs, are terrorizing and killing people; consequently the Indian Army sends Captain Vetri and his team to investigate

Overall Rating: Water
Captain…We watched it with the hope of being surprised but the visual effects, script, and acting, sadly, worked against the film
~Yours To Explore~

Delicious
—Big up to the casting director for selecting the right faces for the right roles; we loved Vetri’s team, their looks complemented each other. And the General (Adithya Menon) was tall, dark, and robust 😍
—The story was told through the 4 stages of battle: Identify the enemy, fight the enemy, find out the enemy’s weakness, and deceive the enemy.
As these stages were constantly reiterated, they became good reference points to understand where the movie was headed
—Aishwarya Lekshmi (playing Kavya), as always, was graceful. Though making a brief appearance, she left an unforgettable mark with the gentle touch she added
—Besides the Sci-Fi element, Captain quietly advocated for the preservation of nature by condemning chemical pollution. Vetri (Arya) even noted “People like you [i.e. scientists/researchers] cannot be reformed or destroyed, instead we must be more alert and careful”.
So, minotaurs, in Greek mythology, represented the primal fear of the unknown in the mind of humans, and what Captain did so well was using minotaurs to point Vetri and his team to the greater enemy they were unaware of

Bland
—The visual effects were the major downfall. The minotaurs, gunshot wounds, and other CGI elements appeared very fake to the extent that it was disengaging. Images looked grainy and lighting wasn’t properly controlled in some scenes
—There was way too much music than necessary 🙁
—We didn’t have many expectations on acting and weren’t blown away too. The cast couldn’t accurately portray their emotions, e.g. when Vetri and his team were struck by the minotaurs, they immediately recovered from pain within a few minutes
—The screenplay lacked a lot of logic like how did Vetri quickly believed in the existence of minotaurs? If gunshots couldn’t hurt minotaurs, why still use guns?
—Overall, Captain didn’t invite us; we just watched without being transported into the story