anonymoustacheon 11th Dec 2008, 4:28pm | Permalink
i think the film belongs more to trivikram than to mahesh, though, of course, it's hard now to imagine anyone else in the role. and the romance is more intersting than the action...
Athadu borrows a whole lot from the entire glut of great Western action movies. There is the stylized action of the 1990s muscle-man trio (Arnie/Stallone/Willis). The Patrick Roberts open-palmed running scene of Terminator 2 (down to the clinically piercing eyes). The dispassionate look with the hint of inner calculation on Stallone in Assassins. And of course, the ubiquitous time-slicing, panoramic photography and bullet-time, to finish the seasoning for the exact effect.
But guess what? With all that borrowing and inspiration, Athadu manages to make one of the higher decibel b....