Game Over - There's a series of gruesome murders by the countryside. Sapna (Taapsee Pannu), a video game addict who is battling a past and personal demons is in the line of sight, and a soft target.
Game Over is a dark, intelligent and cleverly made thriller with inspirations from Premonition and Happy Death Day. It has an understated suspense building around Sapna's psychological state in the first half that's very slow, torturous and you wonder when the killer will strike, without any sign. The second half splits things wide open and shoots like a rocket - deliciously thrilling and nail biting. Actually director Ashwin Saravanan through the first half is busy depicting Sapna as an emotional wreck and almost a weakling, so that he is able to accentuate her fierce capabilities to fight back and think more intelligently than her assailant. We all have two lives, the second one starts when we realize that we have only one! Read this carefully - PAC MAN is here to play!
Game Over is a dark, intelligent and cleverly made thriller with inspirations from Premonition and Happy Death Day. It has an understated suspense building around Sapna's psychological state in the first half that's very slow, torturous and you wonder when the killer will strike, without any sign. The second half splits things wide open and shoots like a rocket - deliciously thrilling and nail biting. Actually director Ashwin Saravanan through the first half is busy depicting Sapna as an emotional wreck and almost a weakling, so that he is able to accentuate her fierce capabilities to fight back and think more intelligently than her assailant. We all have two lives, the second one starts when we realize that we have only one! Read this carefully - PAC MAN is here to play!