Mercury

The title of the movie and the plot is irrelevant. The movie starts with silence and we actually enjoy it. The place where subtitles are shown, we start feeling of watching completely an alienated film.

The story has plot holes in it but the actors save the show. Kudos to Prabhudheva who was the one man of the show. The story is made flexible.

To earn a wider range of audience and to convince the story, all the people in the movie are made deaf and dumb.

Two stars for acting and One star for nail biting scenes. Three stars for music.

Karthik Subbaraj begins with the routine horror built up which has a strong effect over the impactful events. While unfolding at somewhat leisure pace which keeps stimulating the horror effect inconsistently. The sound heavy silent thriller becomes chilling once the thrilling entity enters, we start absorbing and the need of "silence". Although, the scares are less - what builds up scarily and eerily is Karthik's effective handling of the sensory modalities - deprecating us to breathe for a while. The unique conflict between senses - sight and sound trembles into a thrilling cat and mouse game.

It's definitely a brilliantly-crafted thriller but that's not essential. The major tonal shift is abrupt which throws us off the dark track while Karthik tries to get hold of social theme - environmentalism. Nevertheless, it's commendably rendered for the effect along with fine bunch of cast including the gutsy Prabhu Deva.

"Mercury" is a noisy thriller at it's best though marketed as a silent thriller film, it makes us sick with the toxic green hue and Karthik's fearless and gutsy filmmaking sails safely through this interesting cinematic venture.

MERCURY: I felt the storyline is very vague, too many loose ends as well. Lots of Hows '?' .. The story doesn't keep you engaged, also draggy. Few portions that needs to be highlighted where just passing moments & portions that should've been short, were very long.

I appreciate the intention though, targeting the corporate hassles that affect the environment & ultimately human-lives. But this could've been easily dealt with through a short-film, if it's going to be a feature film, then audience like me, expect little more clarity, logic & story that justifies the 2 hours run-time.

#MercuryMovie is a hushed horror film, but it doesnt make your hair stand on end. A group of friends, 4 males n 1 female, meet in an isolated house. A late night drive results in a man getting killed. While trying to dump his body, they enter an abandoned factory where they get slain, one by one. Since there r no dialogues, sound plays a crucial role in the film. Prabudeva impresses, as the revenge-seeking dead man. His makeup is good. Performances r decent. Not a prodigious film, but worth watching as an experimentation. Rating 3/5.

A Silent horror movie , and its very differently and innovative portrayed. Even though it was a Horror movie i didn't scare of any moment/scenes but i did like the concept of the movie and loved the ending with a touch of love. And the first dragged and abit slow. Few sign languages in the movie were not conveyed to me properly as i'm not into the sign language thing. Its a one time watchable movie but a creative movie by Karthik with pretty good performance by Prabhu