‘12th Man’ movie review: Mohanlal-Jeethu Joseph combo doesn’t quite hit the mark this time around

The movie’s idea has sufficient in it to maintain the viewers hooked until the top, however most of the time, one will get the sensation of watching a sport present relatively than an investigative thriller

The movie’s idea has sufficient in it to maintain the viewers hooked until the top, however most of the time, one will get the sensation of watching a sport present relatively than an investigative thriller

On the centre of twelfth Man is a gaggle of buddies, whom we’re informed are nonetheless very shut, years after faculty. However in all these preliminary scenes involving them, we wonder if they’re buddies or sport present members who’re plotting in opposition to one another and gossiping behind every others’ backs. If this was not sufficient, the sensation is additional accentuated when the movie itself shifts right into a sport present mode with the characters viewing one another with suspicion.

The eleven buddies, together with their spouses, have gotten collectively at a hill station resort to have a good time the bachelor occasion of the final single particular person within the group. However the celebratory temper, regardless of interruptions from a perpetually drunken stranger (Mohanlal), rapidly disappears once they determine to play a sport to show that they don’t have any secrets and techniques to maintain from one another. Quickly, it seems that the general public within the group have secrets and techniques which may put their friendship in jeopardy. A dying which occurs later within the night time additional complicates issues.

In twelfth Man, Jeethu Joseph returns but once more to the thriller style, his most comfy area, however the script written by Ok.R.Krishnakumar, primarily based on Sunir Khetarpal’s story, brings again recollections of the various motion pictures primarily based on Agatha Christie’s works. The basic indicators of this are within the remoted setting reduce off from the surface world, and within the plot the place one amongst a gaggle dies resulting in the entire remaining turning into suspects. On prime of this acquainted setting has been positioned a novel concept derived from the a lot remade Italian movie Excellent Strangers, during which a gaggle of buddies at a get-together play a sport revealing the contents of all of the calls and messages that they obtain throughout that point.

It’s a idea which has sufficient in it to maintain the viewers hooked until the top, however most of the time, one will get the sensation of watching a sport present relatively than an investigative thriller. The attention-grabbing bits are of their behavioural shifts, initially uttering half-truths and even lies, and later trying to cowl up when confronted with proof on the contrary.

twelfth Man

Director: Jeethu Joseph

Solid: Mohanlal, Unni Mukundan, Priyanka Nair, Saiju Kuraup, Sshivada, Anusree, Anu Sithara, Rahul Madhav

After a degree, the scriptwriter appears to be labouring to show the needle of suspicion in direction of every considered one of them, with fairly a number of pink herrings thrown in. This additionally has to do with the film’s runtime, which at over 160 minutes, is a little bit of a stretch for such a plot.

The investigation will get long-winded and tiring after a degree, a lot in order that with the suspicion touchdown on each new particular person, one needs for the thriller to get solved quickly, solely to look at helplessly as one other particular person turns into the suspect. The thriller, when it’s lastly revealed after all of the twists and turns, doesn’t handle to shock us a lot too. However then, it’s unfair to anticipate a Drishyam from each different film of Jeethu Joseph.

In the end, the acquainted settings and a long-winded investigation turns into the undoing of twelfth Man, which has derived inspiration from a number of sources.

twelfth Man is at the moment streaming on Disney+ Hotstar

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