Grandmaster (2012)
Chandrashekhar lives alone in a dark and violent city. Even with crime occurring all around him, he withdraws from all responsibility and lives quietly. Soon, change is forced upon him in order to catch a serial killer. Like a grandmaster who anticipates his opponents moves well in advance, he proceeds forward. But only once, just once, he makes a fatal mistake.
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Excellent adaptation.
It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.
The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
the work of director unnikrishnan can only be termed as tremendous. the grandmaster,which has variety theme with good acting performances from lead actors like mohanlal,priyamani,anoop menon and babu Antony.after much of awful mohanlal movies like Casanova,and a lot another dump movies ,the universal star is back on track with a tremendous performance in grandmaster.the movie grandmaster is a type of bollywood or Hollywood and improves the quality of south Indian cinema.it has action,brain-work and tremendous suspense at last.at last it is a much watch investigating thriller
The theme of this movie, an intelligent good character and an intelligent bad character, tried and tested formula. the movie failed to impress the intelligent audience. that translated to its average performance. As a movie lover this movie reminded me, my old time favorite, Assassins, by Stallone and Antonio Banderas. Also the branding, reminded the 'Glorious' Bastards. About the casting, MohanLal secured his job as usual. rest of the characters are supporting as usual. Anoop Menon too did a good job. I think the first time I see them both together. Overall The movie has nothing new to tell. 4/10
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
In one word, a good movie with a good script flavoured by excellent direction by Unnikrishnan and class performance of the great actor Mohanlal.The movie starts simply and had a simple intro of IG Chandrasekhar. Film takes the track without any lagging and parallelly shows the family background of Chandrasekhar. Unni did the mixing of both well, which satisfies all kind of the viewers.Looking to the performance, Lalettan was superb as IG Chandrasekhar. Amazing performance by him. Priyamani was good as Adv.Deepthi Chandrasekhar. Narien, Jagathy, Anoop Menon,Babu Antony etc. were good.B.Unnikrishnan,the craftsman of GrandMaster is deserved to be praised. Good scripting and excellent way of execution. Surely his career best till date. Script shows Unnikrishnan's large habit of reading. Good standard in dialogues and way of presentation. Hats off.Music department was good. Especially the 'Akalayo ne' song. Also the BGM was good.Cinematography was an apt one for a movie like this. Good work.