Samaritan is the story of a young boy who learns that a superhero who had gone missing years back might still be alive. The story didn’t quite excite me even at the concept level. It did seem like a traditional good vs bad kind of a drama packaged into a superhero origin story. But I was hopeful about the screenplay that stands at just about a 100 minutes which made me skeptical of the drama being half cooked.

The screenplay for me was all too vanilla right from the onset. The hook in the drama was missing with one cliché thrown in after another. It begins on a somewhat interesting note through the start credits wherein the drama was given a background almost like a fable. Soon you are introduced to the characters with the intention of sucking the audience in their world. But the template is not too different from any superhero film, instead it is all uni-dimensional.

The drama is watchable wherein a few action sequences are well choreographed and something which will keep you mildly invested. However, the predictability of the drama(barring that final twist) is a deterrent here wherein you can exactly predict the beats of the screenplay. The fight of good vs evil is an age old concept, however the onus is on the writers to make it interesting which here is clearly not the case.

The final act did have a few moments including the shocking twist but the way it was executed coupled with a hurried narration, made it almost implausible to the viewer. You needed the viewer to settle in to the twist atleast in the pre finale, dedicating the final act only like a rescue mission of sorts. But the blotched writing ensures that the drama nosedives before ending. Overall, just a mishmash kind of writing which plays it all too safe thereby making the drama predictable.