Many celebrated filmmakers have made careers out of making sufficiently dumbed down adaptation of cult Hollywood films.
Why else would we keep producing cheap imitations (and that’s putting it kindly) of Hollywood blockbusters week after week. The sad part is this kind of stuff is actually not bad by our general standards. Guess the audience (the reviewers included) have little option other than suffering the intelligence (the lack of it rather) of the filmmakers. So when Allu Arjun comes out sounding and behaving like Ram Charan after the ‘face transplant’ we are supposed to cheer for the star rather than the character he’s supposed to be playing. It’s something mana Tollywood filmmakers lack completely. While the biological merit of those purported surgeries could be contested, it reflects the filmmaker’s respect for the viewers’ intelligence.
The movie is laced with plenty of brilliantly conceived episodes that establish that it’s just the bodies that are exchanged and not the personalities. Sean Archer (John Travolta) has a micro chip implanted in his larynx to make him sound like Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage), and is shown undergoing a slew of corrective plastic surgeries on the rest of his body as well as plot device to get the audience in on it. The attention to detail is what made it believable.
Movie Review: What made John Woo’s Face Off a great film wasn’t just the premise of a face/identity swap. The face belongs to a guy called Charan (Ram Charan) and his past catches up with Sathya. Sathya is saved by a miraculous face transplant surgery and he returns to take his revenge. Story: Sathya (Allu Arjun) is left fighting for his life after Dheeru Bhai (Rahul Dev) and gang kill his girlfriend Deepth (Kajal).
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