Review of Penguin

Penguin (2020)
3/10
An experiment gone horribly wrong!
19 June 2020
Warning: Spoilers
I usually don't write reviews. But this movie was one of the most frustrating films I've watched, so I had to write one. Ok, so they've set out to make a stylish slow boiling thriller. They accomplished half. The visuals are pleasing and they set the mood. But the plot? Its wafer thin. So many wasted characters who have nothing to do. Strange angles are presented but never explored. The whole point of the plot, which was of abducting a child, is left unexplored. And there are so many unexplained happenings. Here are some questions that are left lurking- Why doesn't any one in the movie react to any abnormality?? What was that interval scene about? Everyone completely forgot about superhuman qualities post interval and why wasn't the kid taken to a psychologist for PTSD? He assaults a man with a weapon! Which mom will be so careless with a kid especially after finding him after 6 long yrs? half the movie seemed to validate the first husband's accusal. She amost always seemed to lose the kid! And what was that nonsense about sign language and late night rhymes? How did the kid start talking suddenly?

The guy who played Gautham - was he made of wax?? The whole plot was rubbish and the payoff was the silliest. And the dialogues! I'm almost sure some one with an emotional quotient of a sixth grader wrote this! In one scene a friend compares a breakup with a lost child to convince the mom to cheer up. That sums up the movie for me.
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