Grandmaster

If you want to know the meaning of screen presence, just watch this movie. A technically brilliant movie and a commercial script, executed to near perfection, it is all about Mohanlal. Man he just eats up others and he is all over the screen, such dominance and screen presence, this is what real charisma!!! No one other than Mohanlal could have pulled the role of a middle-aged cop who is returning to duty with such élan and magnetism! The riveting climax and decent contribution from the support cast drives the movie home, definitely a must watch for crime thriller lovers and Lalettan fans! A one time worth watching movie that wouldn't disappoint you!

For a crime thriller about a serial killer, GRANDMASTER conceives a good premise but the tepid execution plays a huge spoilsport. The film is about the killing of women with the first name of their alphabets sequentially i.e. The first person who gets killed is Alice and the next is Beena and so on. Gradually Chandrasekhar(the investigative officer and the protagonist) establishes a connection between the serial killings with the murder of a wealthy man a few years ago and it's explicitly stated in the film that he had no close relatives. But for the sake of a twist in the climax, a relative is created out of thin air, and that too a pretty close one.

Apart from the poor screenplay, there aren't many redeeming qualities either. The action scenes are very haphazardly shot and have so many cuts that you don't know what the hell is going on. The overall film is shot in such a way that it gives the movie a tv-serial aesthetic. Mohanlal plays his role in a straightforward manner as the writing doesn't give him much. The film just trudges from scene to scene without creating much suspense or excitement. Even the red herrings are poorly done.

Directly copy from series Agatha Christie's Poirot season 4 episode 1. Very much disappointed.

A serial kills women in alphabhetical order and a police go after him... There is no unique way in story and screenplay just an ordinary serial killer movie nothing more than that... Climax has twist but not surprising.. All I can say that this is a one time watchable movie...!!!

Looking at the big picture, it's a fine movie with a surprising climax at the end. But the movie was just ordinary. B Unnikrishnan had wonderful script and just directed the movie plainly as you would direct any movie. I didn't felt that adrenaline pumping effect on me. The soundtracks was exceptionally good especially the background scores, best for malayalam movies. Kinda sounds like its Hans Zimmer. And at last the villain after being caught comes up and confess all the process.. OMG.. can't we live out of this total concept of confess.. gross!! I'm sick of it. He should have tried something else to reveal the things, not this one. There are a lot better crime thrillers from Malayalam movies. And I don't think grandmaster is one among them standing tall my ratings 6/10 for ordinary direction