Vishnu Shivashankar

James is a stylized action entertainer with stylish action, set-pieces, lavishing songs and mass scenes. Chethan Kumar has tried something new after his rural drama films based in Uttar Karnataka and gave a stylish Hollywood style-Blockbusters. The director only focused on action and mass scenes. Punneth Rajkumar gave a brilliant performances an army major. The rest of the cast including Rangayana Raghu and Priya Anand (in the climax) play a major part of the film and also what lacks the film is a strong villian characterizations which is an important point in action films and also the writing is typical-mass masala-style and the interval block is inspired from Gopichand's Oxygen. The action scenes (from intro scene to climax scene) are stylized, gory at times and jaw dropping which are the main plus points. Overall, James is a fitting tribute to Punneth Rajkumar with intense action scenes, performances and bgm are the main highlights, but if you ignore the lack of strong villians and predictability. It is worth a watch, Go Watch it on Sony Liv on April 14th for an stylishly action-packed entertainer.