‘Siren’ movie review: Jayam Ravi struggles in a vexing, dull drama

The loud squeak from automotive tyres after a sudden brake. Scratching fingernails on a harsh floor. Rubbing two polystyrene items collectively. Slurping an empty drink with a straw. Dragging a metallic chair throughout a tiled flooring. If even imagining these sounds might annoy and drive somebody insane, think about being restrained to a chair and being killed through the use of the high-frequency sound produced by grating a metallic sheet on the bottom. This is among the many killing strategies utilized in Jayam Ravi’s newest outing, Siren, a movie that’s so annoyingly loud and uninteresting that it will make all of the above sounds really feel like a melody to the ears.

All the things concerning the movie feels just like the product of a screenwriter who received carried away after writing an intriguing one-liner and an inexperienced filmmaker who struggles to transform the concepts on paper to display with readability and cohesion. What has piqued the curiosity of the storyteller in debutant Antony Bhagyaraj is ambition in holding your consideration by revealing bits and items of data, whereas a seemingly intricate plot unravels. A person named Thilakan Varman (Ravi) who had allegedly killed his spouse comes out on a 14-day parole after 14 years. Destiny has it that simply as he will get out, a sequence of murders happen and police officer Nandhini (Keerthy Suresh) has motive to imagine that it’s Thilakan who’s behind all of them.

So as to add to her doubts, Thilakan, alongside together with his parole officer Velankanni (Yogi Babu, the much-needed comedian aid), additionally unusually discover themselves on the crime scene across the time of the murders, however Thilakan pleads that he’s harmless. Nandhini vows to seek out extra proof to help her claims, and this solely pushes Malar, Thilakan’s daughter who despises her father, for all of the social stigma she suffered, additional away.

Now, who’s Thilakan? Did he actually kill his spouse? Is he the man behind these killings? Antony needs to withhold solutions to make you extra curious however fails disastrously in deciding when to disclose what, as you may just about sum up how the movie would pan out. Proper from the start, you additionally start to note a way of plasticity in how we’re launched to this world and force-feeding in conveying the feelings of the central characters. One thing as trivial as what this man launched from jail after 14 years instinctively appears to be like at whereas stepping out of the car ought to provide you with a warning to the logical area this movie needs to function from, however the pitfalls in logic and emotional reasoning change into evident as issues unravel.

Keerthy’s cop, then again, takes the crown as probably the most infuriating on-screen cops in current occasions. She hardly follows process or makes an attempt to seek out some stable proof, bases each resolution in her investigation on hunch or rumour, and it takes actually lengthy for her to piece info collectively. We’re advised that she was suspended following a custodial dying; simply as you surprise if she was the sufferer of the politics by her soiled superiors, watching her arrest males randomly or use violence recklessly makes you would like she will get detained.

You additionally by no means really perceive the place she is coming from or the motivations behind no matter she does, and it does get tiring to see Keerthy alternate between a handful of inventory expressions as this cardboard cut-out of a cop. Alternatively, you solely really feel dangerous for Jayam Ravi, as his delicate makes an attempt so as to add depth to his character are actually seen in fairly a couple of locations—to little avail.

It’s amusing to surprise why this movie was titled Siren, however with background scores enjoying so loud and a predictable narrative that strikes so restlessly, it actually does really feel like watching a generic, forgettable movie for the second time with a loud siren enjoying on one finish of the stereo.

Siren is presently enjoying in theatres