Haneef Adeni’s ‘Marco’, starring Unni Mukundan, is a loud, blunt, spectacular, and very bloody action movie

Using a generic “revenge template”, the people in front of and behind the camera orchestrate one hell of a violent show. The film says that violence begets violence, and it says this with great amounts of gore and great style.

If there’s one thing Marco has going for it, it’s a purity of purpose. Writer-director Haneef Adeni wants to make a movie filled with blood, and right from Scene One, he teases us with the scent of violence. It’s a scene about two young friends meeting and talking. Their names are Victor and Waseem. Now, Victor and Waseem could have met and talked anywhere. They could have met at Waseem’s huge home, where he lives with an older brother who wants to sell illegal drugs. Or they could have met at Victor’s huge home, where he lives with his big family that’s in the gold business. But they meet, instead, at the venue of a caged fight, where a man’s bloody face is being slammed into the mesh, inches away from a salivating camera. That is Haneef Adeni telling the audience: “If you want to leave, this is your cue.”

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