Official Trailer:
It takes around 15mts to figure out what the team – director, writer, and the actors – is going after. They are having fun within the movie, and you can get on the insane ride if you succeed to get into their wavelength. Rifle Club is stylishly made with colorful characters, excellent performances, tangy background score. And then tons of bullets, from antique to modern guns. Plot is very simple – Daya’s, an arms dealer, son gets killed. He along with his men attacks the Rifle Club where the murderer has taken refuge. Now the Rifle Club clan members retaliate, and a fierce gun fight ensues – that is it!! What the director and writers have done is to fill the movie with Addams Family kind of characters, great one liners, interesting moments, and fierce gunfights. We are not asked to root for any characters since there are too many of them. Once we get that it is the rule of the jungle (story is set in western ghats) that prevail, you are either a food or predator, we don’t care about who lives or dies. Tiger kills a dog, and we get Daya putting on a Tiger skin dress before he attacks the Rifle club. Humans exhibit animal behavior blurring the difference – Daya pees on the wall as if he is marking his territory 😃 We get profound statements like Great guns don’t have owners, only successors. We get a great moment where a woman, Ittiyanam (Vani Viswanath), holds the gun at her waist level and says I am as good as a man at the rifle club. Movie is filled with moments like this, how Ittiyanam breaks she is pregnant message to her husband Avaran (Dilessh Pothan), Shahjahan (Vineeth Kumar) being quizzed about his kissing scenes, comment on wild boar’s private areas, Lonappan (Vijayaraghavan) relishing the gunfight showdown. Smart use of Hanumankind’s track when Bheera (Hanumankind) enters the Rifle Club and the thrilling showdown that follows.
Rifle Club is more about form than content. Don’t look for well-developed character arcs. Striking visuals, lively characters, blazing guns, witty exchanges between characters and cool climax make Rifle Club a fun watch.