Boat

I have been meaning to watch my favorite director Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944) for a long time but haven't had the chance yet. I guess this movie is somewhat inspired by that work. The legendary Chimbudevan, one of my favorite directors, has done beautiful work with this film. It serves as a counter-argument to the ideologies being widely advertised in present-day Tamil cinema. At its core, it aims to convey that the British were the ones who spread their divide-and-rule ideology, leading to the problems we are still experiencing today. Fans of the iconic Andha Naal (1954), directed by the legendary S. Balachandar, are in for a treat with this movie-it's something you won't want to miss. I even recommend that all of you watch Andha Naal-one of the best movies ever made.

Of course I had never heard about this 2024 Indian movie titled "Boat" prior to stumbling upon it by random chance here in 2024. However, I opted to watch it on account of it being a movie that I hadn't already seen, but I virtually didn't know what I was in for here. Writer and director Chimbudeven delivered a movie that utterly failed to entertain me. I have to say that watching seven people sitting in a boat far out at sea, talking and doing very little else, didn't really count as being entertaining in my book. Needless to say that I was bored senseless with the script that Chimbudeven delivered, and I just couldn't make it through 126 minutes of this ordeal. I managed to suffer through 35 minutes of the ordeal before I tossed the towel in the ring and gave up. The movie was nothing but dialogue between the seven characters sitting in a boat, and it wasn't even remotely interesting dialogue, much less particularly detailed or interesting characters. Given my limited exposure to Indian cinema, then I wasn't familiar with the cast of actors and actresses on the cast list. But I can't claim that I was impressed with the performances, because the actors and actresses virtually had nothing to work with. This movie was a massive swing and a miss of a borefest of a movie. And it is not a movie that I will ever return to and attempt to finish watching. I just simply didn't care one bit about the characters or the storyline. My rating of "Boat" lands on a one out of ten stars.