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Chennai City Gangsters Review
Chennai City Gangsters sets up an interesting premise with a large ensemble cast, but it falters in translating that potential into an engaging or entertaining watch. A few glimmers of promise exist, but they�re not enough to sustain the film.(more)
Source: MovieCrow, MovieCrow
2.00
Gangsters without the gang or the stars
Director Vikram Rajeshwar seems to operate on quantity over quality, firing jokes like a malfunctioning comedy cannon. The film treats its plot as optional scaffolding for sketch comedy, but forgets that even sketch comedy needs timing. Characters exist purely as one-note gags: Pandi moons over his crush Jeni (Athulya Ravi) between bungled crimes, while each gang member gets exactly one personality quirk milked dry. It's comedy by committee, where everyone's a dimwit by design, hoping collective stupidity equals collective laughs.(more)
Source: TOI, Times Of India
1.50
A comedy of errors, minus the comedy
These four with their individual limitations, such as deafness, memory loss, split personality and alcoholism, do have the makings of solid comic characters, but the writing barely scratches the surface. The setups are promising, but the punchlines fizzle out before they can crack the vault of real humour. In the end, Chennai City Gangsters feels like a heist movie where the biggest thing stolen is the audience�s time, with no getaway car in sight.(more)
Source: Jayabhuvaneshwari B , CinemaExpress.com