Bazooka film evaluation: Mammootty’s easy suave and expertise is wasted on this poorly written movie
Bazooka film evaluation
Forged: Mammootty and Gautham Vasudev Menon
Director: Deeno Dennis
Star score: ★★
Making a film with a star is not any imply feat and debutant director Deeno Dennis tries very arduous – and fails – to place Malayalam star Mammootty aka Mammukka on the pedestal he deserves with Bazooka. This film is a recreation thriller that looks as if an thrilling proposition however by no means takes off and tries to redeem itself in direction of the tip when the viewers has fully given up on it.
What’s Bazoooka about
Kochi is ravaged by crime, and in comes the hotshot ACP Benjamin Joshua (Gautham Vasudev Menon), who is able to clear up the town. However then there’s a twist. One specific criminal makes use of video video games to commit crimes and outwits ACP Joshua and his males each step of the best way, and the crew can’t determine how that is potential. The ACP decides to usher in former forensic skilled John Caesar (Mammootty) to assist them decipher the clues this gamer is giving tem. All that is narrated via conversations between Caesar and his annoying neighbour, a gamer known as Hakkim Shah (Sunny Varghese). So, does Caesar lastly assist the cops nab this gamer who’s an uber-criminal mastermind?
Bazooka, which accurately means a protracted tube-shaped gun held on the shoulder and used to fireside rockets, is full of thoughts video games between the cops, the gamer (who goes by Mr Mario) and Caesar, and bafflingly, the video video games one anticipated the director to hook us with usually are not high-tech ones however youngsters’s video games like Tremendous Mario, Snakes and Ladders, and Temple Run. That is then amped up with quite a few motion sequences all through the movie to showcase Mammootty’s swag and suaveness. However does the movie actually have a robust story that makes it a compelling and thrilling watch when the complete thriller unravels? The reply is not any.
The place Bazooka fails
Author and director Deeno Dennis clearly wished to make a visually slick movie primarily based on a brand new premise the place he may present a modern and trendy Mammukka, whom he appears to revere, in a particularly interesting method to his followers. He has added loads of slo-mo and close-up pictures and scenes to raise Mammukka, however whereas doing all this, he has missed the actual plot of the story. Working example – the police investigation has quite a few loopholes, and logic flies out the window, with a number of the dialogues not serving to both.
Together with such inane traces, there may be thunderous, uplifting BGM by music director Saeed Abbas, who’s additionally added a foot-tapping rap music known as Loading Bazooka by actor-singer Sreenath Bhasi to brighten up the proceedings. Cinematographer Nimish Ravi has ensured that Mammootty comes alive on display screen and stands tall in each body, whereas editors Nishadh Yusuf and Praveen Prabhakar do justice as greatest as they’ll to the movie given its shortcomings.
A gaming world-driven thriller is a brand new style for the viewers, and Dennis squanders the chance by not likely delving into how such heist gangs work in the actual world and giving Mammootty, the star, a task and movie to be proudly related to. By the movie’s finish, the viewers is enjoying the sport of ‘why Mammootty signed on this movie’ when it doesn’t do the actor in him – and the star he’s – justice in any approach. Bazooka is watchable just for Mammootty, however even he can’t save this movie.
