Kadaram Kondan movie review: A flawed, yet engaging thriller.

Kadaram Kondan was like a firework. It took its own time to actually explode, but once it did, it got better.

The beginning of the movie, where the story was getting started, was dragging quite a bit, but once the story really got going around halfway through, the movie picked up the pace. The action started becoming the main thing.

The movie was honestly pretty good though, but there were a lot of basic things that kinda irritated me, and they were mostly about Vikram's character.

First of all, his character's backstory wasn't clear. The other characters kept saying that he had a very bad backstory, but we were never actually told what it was, so it just felt like watching a planned-out side character rather than a realistic main character that we could sympathize. He doesn't even have a flaw that was being tested in the movie. (Even if he did, it wasn't clear.) He kinda just showed up, went into a coma, was kidnapped, then kinda kidnapped his kidnapper, then helped his kidnapper/victim find his wife. It seems like a lot, but that's really it. He showed up, did stuff, then walked out as if literally nothing happened.

Then six years later, Vikram messes his life up again and sends Abi (Who plays the good main character/Vikram’s kidnapper/victim) a gift.

All we really knew about Vikram's character was that his name might be KK, and that he might have a dead brother.

Might.

But even through this confusion, the movie still had me. I wanted to keep watching. The movie could have been a little shorter though, even though it's already just under two hours. It felt a little stretched, like the movie HAD to be two hours. If the movie managed to have a couple more songs (not montage-style songs, but actual normal movie songs), the movie could've totally managed to be at least 2 hours and 15 minutes, but I guess the movie would feel diluted then.