The subject itself is quite serious and reflects on today's times as it revolves around a vigilante cop who investigates a series of crimes ...
The performances by the other actors were also quite impressive. The first half of the movie, like any decent investigation thriller, is really engaging. However, 'Christopher' is not that type of stylish film that depends solely on the heroics of the actor.
When a film proudly flashes 'biography of a vigilante cop' as its tagline, one certainly expects the narrative to have a few encounter killings.
What the film lacks in substance, it seeks to make up for in the star’s swagger and a loud background score that numbs one with its repetitiveness. The script sticks to the encounter cop’s story mostly, but without saying anything new and never attempting to spring a surprise, not even in the climax. When a film proudly flashes ‘biography of a vigilante cop’ as its tagline, one certainly expects the narrative to have a few encounter killings.
Christopher Movie Review: Critics Rating: 3.0 stars, click to give your rating/review,Absolutely no one wants to see a series of gory rape scenes spread ...
Justin Varghese's music adds to the moments Christopher shines on screen. If Mammootty's swagger and screen presence alone can keep the movie up, Christopher will pass the test. 7:30 PM The first half is mostly engaging and keeps us interested in the titular character. His swagger and style keeps us awake and get us excited at some points. However, in the second half, we can almost predict what will happen.
If crazy camera angles and the use of English dialogues could make a filmmaker's style appear fresh and contemporary, Christopher would have been enough.
This is when we come back to the initial point of how the film tries to do something new within this saviour complex. Add to this the way the film uses these characters to create twists and you can see better-written films employing this trick to reinvent the male saviour movie. The fact that he’s a social media superstar, familiar to everyone in his state, makes the case for a vigilante sound even sillier. This is the problematic aspect of the film that is even bigger than its dullness. At least on the surface, you feel like giving the film a little room to make its case (again for the hundredth time) when it underlines the fact that the central character is a morally ambiguous vigilante. The caption for the film describes itself as the autobiography of a vigilante police officer.
Christopher review: How many extrajudicial killings are too many extrajudicial killings? Well, the answer should always be, “Not even one must be allowed”.
Even though the movie is about how women are denied justice, the female characters in the film are very shallow and almost insignificant. Christopher might remind you of the Mohanlal-starrer in many places, including the appearances of both Mammootty and Sneha, which are very similar to that of Mohanlal and Priyamani in Grandmaster. The confrontations between Christopher and Trimurthi rarely make any impact and the dialogues of both Christopher and Trimurthi in these scenes are very sloppy. Characters, rape cases, and extrajudicial killings keep happening without giving the viewers any time to process even a single one of them. He doesn’t speak much, never cracks lame jokes, and the best part is that he is not a secret agent from any of the central forces. Christopher is the head of the Division for Preventing Crime Against Women (DPCAW) and an encounter specialist.
Director B Unnikrishnan and writer Udaykrishna have put together Christopher, which was touted as a crime thriller. Unfortunately, the story and screenplay ...
When Malayalam star Mammootty is part of a film, one expects fireworks in terms of the screenplay, the performances and story. The villain also doesn’t offer anything to the viewer and is quite cliched. B Unnikrishnan and Udaykrishna seem to lack creativity as far as this story is concerned and while it is touted as an action thriller, it is not. There is no hook to engage the audience nor any twist and turn that leaves us surprised. Is Christopher justified in these encounter killings or is he a murderer? [By Latha Srinivasan](/author/latha-srinivasan): Directed by B Unnikrishnan and written by Udaykrishna, Christopher, seems to be inspired from Kamal Haasan’s recent Vikram and Hollywood’s The Equalizer franchise, where a cop becomes a vigilante and delivers justice by taking the law into his own hands.
Mammootty, who has had considerable experience playing the saviour in numerous films, is apt for the part of a seasoned, brooding police official in ...
I also appreciated the anamorphic canvas (as seen in Lucifer), which helps lend a sense of scale owing to this format’s ability to accommodate more details which wouldn’t have been possible otherwise. I saw a woman with a kid sitting next to me, and I’m not sure bringing the child to a film with the constant threat of sexual violence in the air was a good idea. The movie makes it clear whose side it is on and whether it’s right or not depends from person to person. It occasionally feels like Christopher is relentless in its focus on only one kind of crime—and it makes sense given its protagonist’s past—but it also seeks justice for other forms of violence against women. Considering the last film of the former, and the last two films of the latter, I went into Christopher with zero expectations, but I’m glad to report that the film sees both names return to form. So it’s fitting the film opens with him sitting next to a hospital bed, distraught at the state of a survivor of sexual violence, and later exacting retribution for her and her murdered female friend.