Christopher

Christopher Review by M. Siraj. Mamootty's never dying thirst for distinctive acting.

Those who loves mass thriller films, Mammootty's "Christopher" fills their excitement and anticipation.

Its stylish teasers and theme songs were made a hysteria of anxiety, director flourished in satisfying their expectations with a perfect thrilling entertainment package that validates it. Director has made this film with such speed and technical perfection that we don't want to take our eyes off the screen. Christopher is a senior IPS officer who has a reputation of having lot of fan-following on social media, for his strong belief on delayed justice is injustice and for encounter the accused people in rape cases before trials.

The film narrates the story of him, played by megastar Mammootty with the tag line Biography of a Vigilante Cop, who punishes criminals in a vigilante model with his own law as his justice, director succeeded in telling the story in a non-linear way mixing present and past of his life more convincingly.

We can comprehend Director B Unnikrishnan's excellence through this mass gripping film who always has a special talent for making stylish investigation thrillers, while writer Udaya Krishna has penned a tight, loop-holed rousing screenplay, Director's mode of sculpting the Christopher character can be said to be the film's biggest success.

Throughout the film, the director has managed to tell the story by combining all the entertainment elements, that Christopher stands out for being able to present the audience in a very funny and trendy way, despite dealing with a lot of social issues, it touches on the present viral subject of violence against women and harassment against them with piercing strong punchy dialogues.

Needless to say, footing of this film is the mass performance of Mammootty only, who gave life to his character very sophisticatedly and coolly, director very meticulously used Mammootty's stardom as an actor very beautifully in this. His patting on the shoulders of victims with his hand, director gives a clear indication to the audience what is going to happen to the accused. While listening the agonies of the victim Mamootty's facial expressions in side angle shot, his chin shrinks and expands clearly essays Mamootty's inner feelings, Oh My God, even 100 pages of dialogue cannot give the effect, Mamootty express it in a single 30 seconds' frame.

While Mammootty's energy and screen presence as Christopher is worth mentioning, Vinay Rai as an antagonist gets applause, in every scene he appears, Aishwarya Lakshmi, Sneha and Amala Paul have also given life to their characters in an attention-grabbing manner in this film.

The cool visuals and thrilling background music is another element that stood out the best in this highly technical thriller film.

There are some minor setbacks in this film, lack of ability to find interesting or new ideas, it is almost like they want to show Mammootty the star in more slow-motion walks and the pattern is highly predictable.

Keeping aside the negligible short falls, in brief, Christopher is a mass entertainer that exhilarates and excites from beginning to end with a good movie experience for the audience.

It's a poor and bad script and everyone doing it for sharing screen with Mammootty.

It can't be termed as a fiasco, since it's a dated story with too many cameos, this trend started after Gold directed by Alphonse Puthran.

In certain scenes even Mammootty doesn't seemed interested his expressions were bland (May be he sensed the complete blunder in writing but agreed due to some old commitments to the duo ).

But the stalwart has his moments.

The antagonist seemed complete miss cast.

Amala tries harder but the script was poor.

BGM and cinematography were good.

Thank God there are no songs.

I didn't go with much expectations but B Unnikrishnan and Mammooty delivered a watchable movie. First half was better than 2nd half. Action and BGM were the biggest positives of the movie. Too much violence against woman shown in the movie which may make some families uncomfortable in watching this together. The way of justice was shown the right way as system is corrupt. But many such movies in the past like Chintamani kolacase, kakki pada etc have shown similar script. It's definitely one of the better movies of B Unnikrishnan in recent times. Having said that it's just about average. Definitely worth a watch.

I count not believe thaat the director of Madampi directed this Aaratt and Christopher.

Its a disaster movie and they should improve on the script witting and direction, They are not developing the skills of direction. They just utilized the stardom of Mammootty, they did jot use the acting skills of him.

There are many actors from tamil industry which is played an un relevant roles in the movie. This many actors are here in malayalam industry and they could not find the suitable actors for these roles.

I could not believe, how Uday krishna wrote this type of scripts which has no logic.

Lookimg for a good movie from this director and script writer.

This easily is the worst film of 2023 I have seen and I am not looking forward to which other films compete with it. This sad excuse for a film royally wastes a Megastar Mammootty. The writing is tedious and that is a nicest thing I can say about it. More than a biography of a vigilant cop, it is more of a showreel of brutal rapes and murders added just to glorify the lead character.

Even with the non-linear narrative, there is nothing in the screenplay that could engage. It simply had a template, something worse is going to happen to the girls followed by Mammotty showing up in slow motion either while getting out of his car or walking. Then he kills the perpetrators in an encounter. There is no character arc or even redemption. Everyone around him gets murdered to a point it becomes unbearable to sit through.

There should be a petition to stop Vinay Rai from signing such characters. His character may be might have worked in 90s or early 2000s but it simply is a dud now. With the scene structure having no head and tail, the writer - director resorting to just one worn out template, this was indeed one of those Mammootty starrer which was outright painful to watch.