Aby Kuruvilla

A good concept ruined by poor script and bad direction. Even though Mohanlal put his heart,soul and money into this, the movie lacks a compelling story and pace. Now it's the most expensive movie in malayalam history with the worst execution possible. As a fan of fantasy movies and Mohanlal, it was great dissapointment. There's also poor acting from the supporting cast, a veteran director could have maybe ironed out those in multiple takes, but that was not the case here.

Fun Fact: Callum Drift is a real elf and his actual size is his smaller version. The tech keeps the soldier elfs bigger.

The movie is taking Indian film industry in the right direction and I found the stunts believable for a movie, not too overboard, yet "mass" enough to entertain. Unnimukundan's presence is amazing, his good looks and physique enhanced Marco's deadlines. On the way back when we were discussing there's literally only Prithviraj who could have pulled it off. The villains were equally menacing too. A few sour points were that Unnimukundan was incapable of doing any emotional acting, especially during the emotional scenes with Siddique, where Siddique was a 10 and Unnimukundan was like a 3. Like I mentioned before Prithviraj with looks and range in acting would have nailed it too. I also found Jagadeesh not delivering his 100%, but his 80% is already gold standard so no complaints there.

Really really really great movie....ha ha ha ha ha