{"id":626012,"date":"2024-06-29T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-kalki-2898-ad-review-an-unabashedly-derivative-spectacle\/"},"modified":"2024-06-29T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T01:30:00","slug":"watch-kalki-2898-ad-review-an-unabashedly-derivative-spectacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-kalki-2898-ad-review-an-unabashedly-derivative-spectacle\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Kalki 2898 AD&#8217; Review: An Unabashedly Derivative Spectacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af3f4bceccd8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af3f4bceccd8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-kalki-2898-ad-review-an-unabashedly-derivative-spectacle\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Kalki_2898_AD_Review_An_Unabashedly_Derivative_Spectacle%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Kalki 2898 AD&#8217; Review: An Unabashedly Derivative Spectacle&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-kalki-2898-ad-review-an-unabashedly-derivative-spectacle\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Kalki_2898_AD_Review_An_Unabashedly_Derivative_Spectacle%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Kalki 2898 AD&#8217; Review: An Unabashedly Derivative Spectacle&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Kalki_2898_AD_Review_An_Unabashedly_Derivative_Spectacle%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Kalki 2898 AD&#8217; Review: An Unabashedly Derivative Spectacle&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Kalki_2898_AD_Review_An_Unabashedly_Derivative_Spectacle%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Kalki 2898 AD&#8217; Review: An Unabashedly Derivative Spectacle&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    With \u201cKalki 2898 AD,\u201d Telugu cinema filmmaker Nag Ashwin rifles through a century of sci-fi and fantasy extravaganzas to create a wildly uneven mashup of everything from Fritz Lang\u2019s \u201cMetropolis\u201d to Marvel Comics <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>, underpinned by elements from the Hindu epic poem \u201cMahabharata.\u201d It\u2019s billed, perhaps optimistically, as the first chapter of the Kalki Cinematic Universe franchise \u2014\u00a0which makes it part of a larger trend, since it launches the same weekend that Kevin Costner\u2019s multi-film \u201cHorizon\u201d saga does in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    International viewers unfamiliar with the specifics of the ancient Kurukshetra War between the Kauravas and the Pandavas \u2014 think Hatfields and McCoys, only with chariots and spears \u2014 may want to brush up on Indian mythology before <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roaching \u201cKalki 2898 AD,\u201d if only to make some sense of repeated references to that clash. Such foreknowledge could be especially useful during the CGI-amped opening scenes that illustrate how Lord Krishna cursed the warrior Ashwatthama to an eternal life as punishment for a grave misdeed, but allowed him a shot at redemption if he someday assisted in the birth of Kalki, the tenth and final avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    On the other hand, moviegoers throughout the world should have no trouble identifying (and in many cases appreciating) Ashwin\u2019s numerous visual and narrative allusions to \u201cDune,\u201d \u201cThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale,\u201d \u201cStar Wars,\u201d \u201cBlack Panther,\u201d \u201cBlade Runner,\u201d \u201cMad Max,\u201d the Harry Potter movies and a dozen or so other pieces of intellectual property. Extended and unwieldy hunks of \u201cKalki 2898 AD\u201d are devoted to world-building and character-introducing in parallel plotlines that take a long time to intersect. As a result, there are too many sluggishly paced stretches where the passing of time is keenly felt and the storyline is obscured by confusion. But the aggressively spectacular (and, again, CGI-intensified) action set-pieces are generously plentiful and undeniably thrilling, and the lead players are charismatic enough, or over-the-top villainous enough, to seize and maintain interest. Will that be enough to justify two followup flicks? It\u2019s hard to say from early box-office reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    After the fateful encounter on the centuries-earlier Kurukshetra War battlefield, \u201cKalki 2898 AD\u201d fast-forwards a few thousand years to Kasi, a familiar looking but impressively detailed dystopian slum described variously as the first and the last viable city on Earth. High above the huddled masses, there is the Complex, a humongous inverted pyramid where, not unlike the elites in \u201cMetropolis,\u201d an Emperor Palpatine lookalike ruler named Supreme Yaskin (Kamal Haasan) and other members of the in crowd savor an abundance of luxuries \u2014 including, no joke, their very own ocean \u2014 while served by manual laborers recruited from below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Bhairava (Telugu superstar Prabhas), a roguish bounty hunter who rolls in a tricked-out faux Batmobile equipped with a robotic co-pilot, yearns to earn enough \u201ccredits\u201d to buy his way into the Complex, where he can crash the best parties, ride horses through open fields and avoid all the debt collectors hounding him in Kasi. He seizes on the opportunity to make his dreams come true when a colossal reward is posted for the capture of SUM-80 (Deepika Padukone), an escapee from the Complex\u2019s Project K lab, where pregnant women are routinely incinerated after being drained of fluids that can ensure Yaskin\u2019s longevity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    While on the run through a desert wasteland, en route to the rebel enclave known as Shambala, SUM-80 is renamed Sumati by newfound allies and, more important, protected by the now-ancient\u00a0Ashwatthama (Amitabh Bachchan), who has evolved into an 8-foot-tall sage with superhuman strength, kinda-sorta like Obi-Wan Kenobi on steroids, and a sharp eye for any woman who might qualify as the Mother, the long-prophesized parent of \u2014 yes, you guessed it \u2014 Kalki.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Bhairava and his droid sidekick Bujji (voiced by Shambala Keerthy Suresh) follow in hot pursuit, and are in turn pursued by an army of storm troopers led by Commander Manas (Saswata Chatterjee), a cherubic-faced Yaskin factotum who always seems to be trying a shade too hard to exude intimidating, butch-level authority. Ashwatthama swats away the storm troopers and their flying vehicles like so many bothersome flies, and exerts only slightly more effort by warding off Bhairava and his high-tech weaponry. (Shoes that enable you to fly do qualify as weaponry, right?) <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    For his own part, Bhairava has a few magical powers of his own, though it\u2019s never entirely clear what he can or cannot do with them. After a while, it\u2019s tempting to simply assume that, in any given scene, the bounty hunter can do whatever the script requires him to do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But never mind: He and Ashwatthama do their respective things excitingly well during the marathon of mortal combat that ensues when just about everybody (including Manas and his heavily armed goons) get ready to rumble in Shambala for the climactic clash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    All of which may make \u201cKalki 2898 AD\u201d sound a great deal more coherent than it actually is. Truth to tell, this is a movie that can easily lead you at some point to just throw up your hands and go with the flow. Or enjoy the rollercoaster ride. 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