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Critics Review
2.50
Half Baked Thriller
If one moment is enjoyable, the one right after is a dud and the pattern follows almost throughout the whole movie. Engaging to an extent, but the lengthy, also predictable screenplay never allows us to be invested in the happenings. (more)
Source: Ashwin Ram, MovieCrow
2.00
Jayam Ravi-Keerthy Suresh crime thriller is an underwhelming timepass
Siren is too melodramatic as a crime thriller and is an underwhelming timepass.(more)
Source: Latha Srinivasan, Hindustan Times
2.50
A mixed bag of heightened emotions, convenient writing and first-rate editing
In the first half of Siren, Keerthy�s Nandhini constantly says that she hasn�t killed anyone. In the second half, Jayam Ravi�s Thilagan is the one who is recurringly saying the same dialogue. But while the latter gets a fleshed-out character, Nandhini fails to emerge as a fully formed character. She is intriguing and strong, but also very one-dimensional in the way she is written.(more)
Source: Roopa, Times Of India
2.00
Jayam Ravi-Keerthy Suresh's thriller is ruined by spoon-feeding
Jayam Ravi does his best to salvage the convoluted mess that 'Siren' is. He is earnest in his attempt, but the story doesn't aid in elevating his performance. Meanwhile, Keerthy Suresh feels miscast as Inspector Nandhini. Her character comes off as brash and violent without clear justification. If it is just to show that she's tough as a police inspector, it is a huge failure. Because she gets put down in every situation by her superior and even by prisoner Ravi.(more)
Source: Janani, India Today
2.00
Jayam Ravi-Keerthy Suresh crime thriller is an underwhelming timepass
Siren is too melodramatic as a crime thriller and is an underwhelming timepass.(more)
Source: Latha Srinivasan, Hindustan Times
2.00
Jayam Ravi's latest is decent as a thriller, dragged down by its 'packaging'
. A film that bats for progressiveness has a celebratory song when the teenage daughter attains puberty. Then we have a chase sequence involving Thilakan trying to take his dying wife to the hospital in his ambulance. Now, the wife gets stabbed by the villains. For reasons unknown, they wait till Ravi�s arrival, wait some more till he gets her to the ambulance, and start chasing him the moment he starts the vehicle. There isn�t anything novel about the chase either. And that begs the question, what is the point of the illogical chase at all? The only sensible explanation is that it exists just to massage of the ego of the star, and of course, the packaging! As part of the package, it is only fair we get a good social message too. What we get out of Siren is that: �Say no to casteism�. With films like Siren, which try to do all at once, it is hard to tell whether the writers and directors genuinely care about such issues or exploit them because it is in trend.(more)
Source: Kirubhakar Purushothaman, Indian Express