Marco Movie Review- Malayalam (2024)

Movie: Marco (2024)

Director: Haneef Adeni

Production: Shareef Muhammad 

Cast: Unni Mukundan, Siddique, Jagadish, Kabir Singh & Others

Music: Ravi Basur

Editor: Shameer Muhammad 

Cinematography: Chandru Selvaraj 

Language: Malayalam 

Release Date: 20/12/2024

Censor: 'A' (Loads of violence & brutal scenes- NOT FOR FAINT HEARTED)

1/5

Another Noxious Animal in the Market

01. Plot & all about Marco.

It's the same old revenge -mass, action, vengeance drama with loads & loads of violence & bloodpools. Strictly not for faint hearted or who can't stomach violence, blood, body chopping scenes. Marco is simply a vengeance story of Unni Mukundan as Marco Peters avenging on Russel (Kabir Singh) who killed Marco's step brother Victor in a brutal way ofcourse. Why Ruassel killed Victor & why Marco is avenging him is something to watch for in the film. Siddique is Gorge Peter who's the head of Adattu family & Marco is his adopted brother. To know further dive into the film. 

02. What about violence & impact?

I literally wanna dump the directors Prashanth Neel & Sandeep Reddy Vanga for paving a noxious path for the future generations & making them misunderstand the term 'Violence'. When someone thinks violence is brutality at it's best & wanna test how much brutality can audience handle in theatres then definitely we are heading in a wrong direction. 

Though the plot is simple but the violence is all around driving the wheel then what can audience expect for when the director himself is showing that this is what we get in this film?! If not for the stupid impact or so called adrenaline rush for those action sequences however being claimed by these so called Genz generation should understand that howeverso strong can be the reason but this level blood & violence is always a strict NO in the society. 

How much more brutality is enough?! Will there be a fullstop to this?! We can't say it's not for weak hearted & keep making such cringe of films just based on brutality. There are numerous scenes in film where audience should close their eyes in horror or feel their guts churning violently because of the content. We find some or the other scene with blood fest, advanced weapons killing, acid dips, butchering of humans or dogs for God sake!! From my side rather talking unnecessarily about the impact, influence etc etc of such scenes- am concerned the way the film content is heading towards a completely grey negative world full of blood & horror filled of violence - so from my point it's a NO. 

03. Some more negatives. 

I don't care who it is in the film, but it is just too horrible to watch that 2hr45min long barbarous shit. Unni Mukundan as Marco killed the performance but for what use is my question? By adding that extreme cruelty & bloodthirst is someone gaining anything? So is the director telling that this is the new theme of Pan India? I don't get the whole point here- why such savage & gruesome scenes are required to tell a simple revenge story?! So the answer is very general - violence or brutality in today's films with ample bloodfest is just a bait for the so called action sequences lovers (unfortunately we have many of them here). 

Editing & screenplay fail terribly. Cinematography is somewhat ok. Ravi Basur sleeps for most of the time & wakes to remember that he's hired to score BGM for a action driven film & scores some thumping beats & again goes back to sleep. The worst direction by Haneef ofcourse. 

04. Any plus points?

You might have already known the answer - NO. But lemme just forget about the nauseating violence for an instance & just give a fair review. The film is fair enough on the story but is too routine. The gripping or almost far to reality brutal scenes placed over many junctures in the film ofcourse do create an eerie & horrific or thrilling impact - like the intro, interval bang, staircase fight, family murder, climax but all these scenes are high on bloodthirst & too ferocious that even the acquainted ones are troubled watching them. 

***SPOILER ALERT or ⚠️ SCENES*** 

There are scenes where the hero butchers a dog in the introduction & straigt away comes with all the blood on all his clothes - later another juncture where people slaughter eachother with chainsaw - another sequence where acid is involved to kill- yet another sequence & the most dangerous family slaughter sequence. ( Faint hearted can try avoiding all the above scenes )

05. In final glimpse.

Is this all required?! My straight question to audience, director, team & everyone reading the review too. How much is enough - is a question that we all have to answer to ourselves & later proceed. Am tired of arguing but infact vexed explaining this to people who support these films- violence is acceptable only if it is close to reality & wanna speak something too raw & uncut- but not in a manner that it slowly poisons the society - one can easily say a movie will never have such impact on society - but in a higher level - if influence or impact isn't an issue then it isn't advisable for such bold content which has no value at all in real life. A good film can go underrated & it's not an issue but a bad film shouldn't be left without criticism. (What is good & bad in films?- to answer this we need to understand how much bad in a film is actually bad for audience & then you can understand what am trying to mean) Even KGF or Animal is a no from my side- unnecessarily bragging over such far from reality/ brutal films is no use. 

Atlast you already guessed the answer - I hated the film emotional wise or logically too. No recommendation from my side.