Chakra is a poorly made cyber-thriller that makes you go WTF more times than you can count. I wasn't a big fan of Irumbu Thirai, and I definitely do not consider it the benchmark for cyber thrillers. That being said, there was a certain level of finesse in its making, and the cat-and-mouse antics in the second half made for mindless popcorn fare. Chakra, initially touted to be its spiritual sequel, is unintentionally hilarious in many scenes, wastes an efficient actor like Shraddha Srinath, positions Vishal's character Chandru as "always-one-step-ahead-of-the-villain" (which is a terrible move for thrillers), and has cringy one-liners from Robo Shankar.
Regina Cassandra, I'd say, was a weird choice to play the antagonist in this movie. I get it that writer-director M. S Anandan was going for a suave, stylish villainess in Leela but the writing for the childhood portions (played to great effect by baby Krithika) of this character towers over her adult counterpart. Yuvan's score is also a letdown this time around. The biggest bummer here is the writing - replete with unbearable lectures, a puppet of a police department that simply sucks up to a military officer, funny coincidences, idiotic-but-massy moments and what not!
