Deeno Dennis’s ‘Bazooka’, starring the evergreen Mammootty, is a good idea lost in translation

The star is game as always, but this thriller about ‘gaming’ is weakly written, and makes you wish they’d get to the point sooner. Plus, the endless stylisation really tests your patience. The rest of this review may contain spoilers.

Right from the opening scene of Bazooka, something seems off. It’s one of those “Hollywood scenes”, something from a spy thriller where someone whispers a secret message to someone else, in an airport, and then walks away, leaving the “someone else” to do the job. But this “someone else” is dressed like a nun, and she doesn’t look like one at all. She is statuesque, like a fashion model, and she walks in her heels like a model would walk in a fashion show. It’s a deceptive scene, of course – but at least for that moment, we should buy this illusion (that this is indeed a nun), and we don’t. A little later, we get a Halloween party, where a young girl is almost lost amidst the costumed crowd. But again, something about the setting, the staging, feels off. Slowly, it becomes clear that Bazooka is a movie that wants to be cool but doesn’t quite know how, and the result is a tedious thriller.

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