#max review

After a series of unimpressive movies, KIchcha Sudeep delivers a strong mass masala action thriller

Inspector Arjun Mahakshay goes with the name Max– the name no one barely calls him but recognised by only one of the many villains. Max comes with the track record of multiple suspensions and transfers due to his unabashed sincerely. The typical honest police officer role. However, MAX is not about Arjun. MAX is a one-night crime cover up thriller; an escaping drama from two powerful ministers and their men after the death of the minister’s son in the police station. 

Writing strong villain characters and making the hero overcome the obstacles and dangers set by the villains is a perfect template for a mass masala action thriller that doesn’t treat its characters as just tools to elevate the heroism of the hero. But, MAX does use all the characters as tools for the sake of the hero. Sunil playing the gangster Guna is the main villain, Varalakshmi Sarathkumar as an insider cop working for Guna gets an interesting entry into the story with the hyped heftiness of a fox-like cunning cop. But, that doesn’t hold for long. We are made to believe that the villains are too powerful only through the shivering fears expressed by incompetent police officers. Vijay Kartikeyaa should have taken a bit more care to craft the intelligence of the characters rather than just telling the audience to believe that the politicians and gangsters are really powerful and dangerous. 

MAX is not a flawless movie. It has its flaws, far too many from the standpoint of characterization. However, MAX works well because of Kichcha Sudeep’s heroic screen presence as an all-powerful big-brain strategic cop who never loses his cool unless he is talking on a phone call. The Lokesh Kangaraj’s Khaidi like plot-line of one-night actioner and goons of powerful men covering up the entire isolated police station gives MAX an immediate sense of tense urgency that keeps the audience hooked for the next moves. And, the positioning of the police station– designed by  Shiva Kumar– in an isolated place is also a bit less convincing but it had to be that way for the plot to progress as Karthikeyaa had written it. 

The heroic swagger of Kichcha Sudeep fired up by the background score of Kantara-fame Ajaneesh Loknath saves this underwritten escape thriller that engages you throughout the film.

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This one was interesting to say the least.

As terrifying as it may be, the Controller Experience™ was pretty neat to read through. The beginning was kinda slow, but man if the hospital scene wasn’t stressful. Now that I think about it every book is stressful.

I’m pretty sure I was going through cardiac arrest the entire time the kids were trying to figure out whether Jake had been infested or not (props to Ax for noticing first). You didn’t really get to see much interaction between the characters, but I think that’s what also gave you the feeling of being so detached, just like how Jake must have felt.

This probably took up less than 1% of the book but I would’ve LOVED to hear more about Ax pretending to be Jake. I knew it was probably not the best idea to begin with given that Ax is still getting used to human senses but still, it was probably my favorite scene. 

Anyway, I liked how we got a little more insight to how yeerk life is. This one in particular had enough arrogance to rival Visser Three (though, I doubt anyone could hope to manage that). It was also sort of ironic that the yeerk that infested Tom was the one that found its way into Jake’s head, which just added more to the nightmare fuel. 

As expected, at some point I started to feel bad for the yeerk, which I probably wouldn’t in a real life situation but I just ?? cant’t help it ?? Especially when it started going through kandrona starvation. It was such a long and painful process and the image of a dead gray slug lifelessly flowing from a person’s ear will haunt me forever. On a lighter note, I liked how we got a little glimpse of how yeerks work. Yeerk biology is so odd ?? They’re literally tiny sentient brains in need of a body and this book really exemplified how helpless these little guys are without a host. I gotta say though, they’re pretty rude for space slugs.

OOOOOOOOOHHHH MAN This book was a trip.

There’s so much going on I don’t know where to start. For an animorphs book, this one was wild from start to finish. Marco’s pov is so entertaining & kind of a relief from the other kids’ serious outlook. That’s not to say Marco doesn’t have his serious moments.

Pretty much every scene with Marco and his dad was so heartbreaking. And as if that wasn’t enough, suddenly finding out your mother - who you thought was dead for two years - was actually a powerful yeerk leader while having been captured aboard a ship miles above your home isn’t exactly an ideal set of circumstances. Marco definitely did not have it easy.

And that’s not even all of what happened oh my lord. My view of ants keeps changing from seeing them as interesting insects (tbh I blame antman) to legit terrifying in less than a second. I admit I was a little scared for Marco when he started getting literally torn apart by actual ants. And him finding the head of an ant still attached to where it had tried to bite him in half was sort of unnerving. And I like how the experience affected everyone differently, like how it made Rachel more irritable and Jake & Cassie withdrawn.

On a lighter note, Ax was so perfectly awkward. He’s so confident in everything that he does even though he knows next to nothing about his environment. He tries & I can appreciate that. Although his outburst in the food court gave me a little secondhand embarrassment, I can see where he’s coming from.

Since I always save him for last, I really liked Visser Three in this one. He didn’t have that much of a presence, but from Ax’s commentary, you really got a sense of how powerful he is. He’s such an arrogant snot (which may come from his host but nevertheless), like, his fascination with cats is so weird and cute but he still manages to be the biggest asshole. And the dynamic between him and Visser One was lovely. You can tell that Visser One doesn’t have the time nor patience to be dealing with him and she makes him seem like he’s less of a big deal he’s made himself out to be.

Hooooooo boy have I been itching to read this one.

I already knew that at some point Ax was gonna join the team but UGH I loved his introduction much more than I thought I would. But before I get to that, lemme talk about some of the other things I liked about it bc boy this book is probably one of my faves so far.

I looooved Cassie’s pov, she just has a certain way of looking at things that remind me of how I was as a kid (bc if I had read this when I was 8, Cassie would’ve been my fave probably). Though, I did sort of disagree with her reasoning behind not acquiring dolphins. But I guess I can see where she was coming from??

Cassie/Jake isnt my my fave ship but I have to say they’re scenes were cute. Like, Jake is such a nerd?? And you can tell that they really like each other but they’re kind of awkward about it and that seems kind of real imo.

Aaand now I’ll get to the part I’ve been waiting for since day one. You don’t really get to see much of Ax’s personality (because it’ll probably get built on later in the series) but since I’m complete andalite trash I already love him. Like, I know arrogance is a common trait for his species, but I got more of an awkward confidence vibe from him more than anything. My only probably (albeit minor) was his reaction toward’s Elfangor’s death ?? I guess I expected more but who knows this might get touched upon later (or it might not, since I only remember the bare plot of the series so I can’t say for certain).

Plot-wise, there were a lot of things that I loved about this one. One of my favorite scenes was the part where Cassie was talking to the whale. Idk ?? it was probably really cheesy but that part gave me chills ?? One thing I did not like was the sharks’ portrayal,, I know it’s a dumb thing to be salty about but as a person who studies marine biology it’s just ??? that’s not how sharks work ??

Honestly?? As the first Tobias-narrated book, this one is straight up sad?? Like, out of all the kids, I relate to Tobias the most and this book kind of touched on topics I’m (and I’m sure a lot of other people) are too familiar with.

Throughout most of the book, Tobias is in a constant state of turmoil and I don’t blame him. He’s caught between his hawk instincts and human feelings and at some point you see the clash between his personas finally get to him. The part where Tobias is actively trying to ram himself into glass and ends up falling into Rachel’s arms hurts my heart sO much ??

I don’t really have much to say about this one. The Rachel & Tobias moments were really cute and I liked how their relationship was sort of established more. And Tobias coming to terms with him being a hawk was actually kind of scary in a way. Like, at some point he actually ignores his human mind and goes hawk for about a week (I think). Then there’s the internal conflict with him and the hawk he frees at the beginning. I admit even that was a little weird but you can’t blame the kid.

I got done with this one surprisingly quick??

I really liked Rachel’s perspective and how we got to see her thought process. When she cares about something she cares so passionately and she insists on doing what she thinks is right. She’s similar to Jake in that aspect, that they both have a habit of caring deeply about something they think is important and try so hard to do the right thing even if it’s risky (though, Rachel is more of a risk-taker than her cousin).

There weren’t that many Rachel/Cassie interactions in this book, but what stuck out most to me were the Rachel/Tobias interactions. Honestly, they are so cute and it’s so sad?? Tobias looks out for her the best he can and he worries about her because he’s beginning to notice that once she’s set her mind on something it’s practically impossible to convince her otherwise.

And of course, I have to talk about the asshole that’s quickly becoming my fave: Visser Three. It’s only the second book and I love how they’ve established his character. He’s so terrifying but also not outright scary. From the description that’s given, his andalite form doesn’t seem all that intimidating (although I’ve noticed the official art kind of beefs him up a bit lmao) but dude has a habit of trying to reach that Drama Quota™ and morph into the scariest creature possible. Like, how many aliens does this guy even have?? And based on the entire scene with him and Chapman, Visser Three sounds more like an annoying manager with anger issues more than a yeerk commander.

Speaking of, I loved the scenes with Chapman meeting up with V3 via hologram. It kinda gave me a star wars vibe?? And I think I’ve been screaming about Visser Three being amused by cats for a few days already. Like ?? It’s so left field coming from him?? And him trying to put two-and-two together by associating Rachel’s cat morph with Jake’s tiger morphs was strangely cute. And I think what makes it more ironic is that while he’s distracted himself with the cat, Chapman is literally fucking losing it (I admit, I would too).

And while I’m on the topic of the Chapmans, the scene where Mr. and Mrs. Chapman are rebelling against the yeerks in their head is complete nightmare fuel. Like, they’re literally warring against themselves in order to gain control even though they know they can’t, not really (and the fact that Mrs. Chapman is a voluntary host yet is still strong enough to rebel for barely a minute is amazing). And I think the scariest scene for me (next to Rachel’s maggot dream) was towards the end where the real Chapman talks to Visser Three, threatening that he can make life for his yeerk as difficult as possible. Obviously, the visser is not threatened in the slightest. But what actually scared me was the fact that Chapman was a host for so long that he had forgotten how to speak, how to put coherent thoughts together, for a moment. It was sad and I wanted to pity him because unlike his wife he didn’t want this. And his motor skills minus the yeerk’s control were so weak that it only took a gentle tap by Visser Three to make him fall.