At one point, a child traces fluorescent tire marks to solve a crime! Chozhan just taps on laptops and finds dark-web account details of an assassin - code name: bounty hunter - who has been paid in bitcoins.
As a result, a lot of clues fall into Chozhan’s lap. When one Indian businessman suggests that they resort to murder, a Chinese businessman responds with “wait, we need to put this decision to vote!” There must be a joke somewhere there about democracy, China and crime.Īfter introducing Rajiv, the film stops taking any interest in suspense and resorts entirely to action. The boardroom discussions among Chinese businessmen about killing the Indian foreign minister is almost worse than its 7 Aum Arivu counterpart. The half-interesting butterfly effect-inspired trick - of setting up an apparently unrelated incident to change the course of action for something more sensitive - is rehashed so often, it feels ordinary. Rajasekhar makes the action sequences, with tall glass buildings, colourful night clubs, big cranes, highway chases and what not, perfectly engaging, even if not entirely innovative. Vishal gets a loud, traditionally-mass intro, standing on top of Singapore high-rises, jumping through glass walls, breaking high-security safes and feeding people biriyani for good measure. Thankfully, the film moves to the present day and to a zone where writer-director Anand Shankar finds himself more comfortable in: Action.
Enemy is the kind of film that forces a dialogue that the get up is fine, but the over-enthusiastic salute is not, an explanation so stale that Prakash Raj himself was part of one such scene in Anniyan over 15 years ago. This police officer, on arrival promptly salutes Paari, stomping his feet on the ground and all, before asking, “how is my civilian clothes, sir?” Paari could have simply laughed this idiocy off. For instance, to test the “photographic memory” skills of Chozhan and Rajiv, Paari asks a policeman to pretend to be a pickpocket. Sometimes, the annotations are insulting. It moves fast, and in annotated milestones. The film spends over 30 minutes establishing his childhood, his father’s (Thambi Ramaiah) risk-averse nature, his relationship with retired CBI officer neighbour Paari (Prakash Raj) and his son Rajiv (Arya). Enemy is the story of Chozhan (Vishal), a departmental store owner by day and maverick vigilante do-gooder by night.