Hello Movie Maniacs
If only stylish camera work could make a movie work. That is a one-line review for loop lapeta, the latest offering from Netflix India, an official adaptation of the cult German movie, Run Lola Run.
Having enjoyed the original plenty of times I decided to sit down for this 2-hour long movie. Well, I didn’t have too many expectations considering how Bollywood has time and time again ruined remakes (Cough… Italian Job… Cough), but with an impressive cast of Tahir Raj Bhasin and Taapsee Pannu, I had some expectations that this will not be total trainwreck.
I sacrificed for you
Well, here I am after having barely survived 2 hours of excruciating pain, and with just a mission to save others from wasting their precious life watching this piece of trash.
The plot
Those of you who have watched to Run Lola Run a pretty familiar with the story. For those who haven’t let me summarise it in as few words as possible.
The lead female protagonist has to run and arrive at a certain place, where her boyfriend is in serious need of some money, or else he will be killed. She starts running and during her run, she encounters different characters whose lives get interconnected to her mission. The loop in the title refers to a time loop in which female protagonist gets stuck, and every time she fails, she wakes up at the same place from where it all started.
Why it is a disaster
While Run Lola Run used this concept in an artistic way and there was an incredibly beautiful use of the three colours of a traffic light in the theme of the three runs, she takes to complete her mission, loop lapeta has nothing going for it in any of the scenarios. The luck lustre acting performances and cringy attempts at invoking laughter, spell doom for movie in every scene.
The use of slow mo camera work and split screens looks interesting at the start but when you over do something, it becomes a pain to watch.
Everything is a mess
On the acting front there is not one actor who has not over acted but the worst performance has to be from Taapsee Pannu herself.
The fact that neither of the characters has been developed properly, and nor does their motive to do things look compelling enough, is evidence of lazy script writing.
One line warning
Overall, this is one movie that will do a lot of good to your own mental peace, if you decide to skip it.
