Ludo

Like watching 2 separate movies! The 1st some sort of low budget hand cam slice of life from India, which was fairly interesting, but the characters were hollow and pointless. The 2nd was extremely interesting, a story about a game, similar to the game box in Hellraiser, which begs you to solve it, and if you don't, your body is forfeit, if you do your soul is. The board, like the box mesmerizes you, and you must play. If the 2nd half was more developed and a movie on its own, it would be a GOOD movie, but the first half, and the end, which happens in LITERAL FLASHES, and up close shots of faces, so you can't tell which of the 3 women you're looking at, what time you're looking at, it RUINS the end, because you DON'T know what happened!!! BOO!!! I even went back and watched it in slow mo, and if what I THINK happened happened, it would make no sense, because it would mean things in the past would make things in the future different....

Watch if you dare, because it will only leave you confused.

This started off so well with an interesting premise. This film was confused and lost it's way. Some good FX and a reasonable cast was let down by a poor story.

I am a huge fan of Q. Huge is an understatement but Ludo did not meet even 20% of my expectation. When I found Ludo was on Netflix I was elated and I spent my Thanksgiving afternoon glued to the screen. I have never felt so disappointed. Rii is as usual amazing but whoever did her voice for the movie ( I assume it was meant to be a Sakchunni - Bengali married woman's spirit) sounded ridiculous, raspy and horrendous. The four main characters are shallow and by shallow I mean not an ounce of depth. I grew up in Kolkata and I can vouch for the fact that we don't use so much of swear words in our daily vocabulary. I Know impressionable men and women feel that using swear words would be cool but it was a bit of an overkill.

Tilottama Shome as the Shaman could have been explored much much more. I was left with a palate of bile after the movie. It could have been so so much better had some of the background story been omitted and stress put on the present day scenario of the Shaman's existence. Over all, I think it is a mess.

I mean WTF!!!??? I thought That I had bad movies but This is the worst!!!

I am fan of the foreign horror genre, so needless to say i was excited to view this film. Foreign horror films often contain more in depth mythos and psychological scares than the mainstream films. The idea of this film was very interesting yet failed to deliver. The pacing was too slow and scattered and despite the typical gore, Ludo failed to grip me. The scenes combined with the soundtrack felt solely for shock value ( a la Martyrs sans story line).

The first act was, albeit too long, supposed to flesh out the characters. Which it did. It gave the viewer a sense of the environment and what is culturally accepted and not. Then, it switched from being a 'slow-burn'into a music video that bombards your ears with industrial type beats and seizure inducing lights. From here you are magically whisked away to a non-nonsensical time shifting quick explanation of the cursed game complete with gore and not much else.

To say more is really irrelevant. Many will disagree, but if you are curious in viewing this, it really wouldn't hurt skipping some scenes and just skimming through the rest to arrive at a flat ending.