Kishkindha Kandam review

Just finished watching Kishikandha Kanda movie.

Merely ok story. Some of it doesn't make sense at all/not explained. Acting is also not particularly great. Don't understand how it got such that highly positive reviews.

Comparisons to Drishyam? You cannot be serious!!

First half is slow and too much buildup. Asif Ali is ordinary except for a few scenes. For majority of it, his emotions and delivery dialogue is flat. Aparna (Asif wife role) and Vijayaraghavan (Asif father role or grandfather for kid) are clearly better, Aparna even more so. Yes, even if Vijayaraghavan character annoyed me a quite a bit.

Overall: 6.25/10 for me.

Spoilers below:

1. How on earth does a kid know how to put in the bullets, remove the safety and actually fire properly?

2. The grandfather hits the kid, but doesn't remove the bullets and hide it elsewhere after kid has fired and shot the monkey? WTF.

3. The gun is still hidden within a compartment of the grandfather's room. really?

4. The loop about monkey holding the gun is not closed.

5. If the first wife wanted to commit suicide, she had the gun as an option.

6. Importantly, could have lied and made up a story and have the grandfather write it down. Rather than have him repeat the investigation in a loop while feeling possibly guilty? Having him keep his pride is important, but avoiding possibly guilty loop is not?

7. Sumadathan move to bury the monkey in the same land was foolish.

8. What actually happened with police investigation of the missing kid? Not explained in proper detail

9. Someone else pointed this out online -> Don't think you can live with such a disease for so long. It's degenerative.