Bazooka 2025 Unfavourable

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Bazooka

TezScore30/100 Unfavourable reception Unfavourable Early coverage · 1 scored of 2 Indian-media reviews How TezScore works
151 min 10 Apr 2025
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Synopsis

Bazooka

A painting is smuggled from abroad and spotting it amidst a road check, Benjamin Joshua, an ACP in Kochi, intervenes and transfers it into an encrypted location. Months later, in a Bengaluru-bound bus, a hardcore gamer Sunny acquaints with his co-passenger Aryan Achary, a seemingly introverted accountant, also traveling to the city. Due to a turn of events a curious Sunny goes through Aryan's laptop which reveals that the guy is neither Aryan Acharyan nor an accountant. With his identity leaked, Aryan, revealing himself as John, confides to Sunny about himself. John is a former police forensic professional who is on sabbatical due to some reasons, and Benjamin Joshua's childhood friend. In Kochi, a mysterious gang of serial robbers who disguise themselves and loot strange items from certain locations create chaos. During the investigation, Benjamin learns that the killers are following the pattern of a video game - each time an officer in Benjamin's team is picked, and sourced with a random clue which should be cracked before the loot happens, which Benjamin's team fails every time. John arrives to aid Benjamin in tracking down the criminal gang. The gang even bugs Benjamin himself by luring his son with a Mario gameset, which the boy keeps despite Benjamin warning him to not take it. After missing the gang a couple of times, Benjamin nabs one of the boys in the gang who reveals nothing despite being tortured by the police.

Director
Deeno Dennis
Release
10 Apr 2025
Run time
151 min
Language
Malayalam

Cast & crew

Mammootty Mammootty Cast Gautham Menon Gautham Menon Cast SU Sumith Naval Ansari / Big B SN Sneha Ajith Tamil Nadu Police Officer BH Bhama Arun SI Saniya DI Dinu Dennis CI Tony AB Abin Bino Conductor ZE Zena Shankar Mia / Superblondie VA Vasisht Umesh Cast ME Meenakshi Raveendran Cast JO Joe John Chacko Cerealkiller Nimish Ravi Nimish Ravi Cinematographer RO Roby Varghese Raj Cinematographer NI Nishadh Yusuf Editor DE Deeno Dennis Director, Writer SA Saeed Abbas Composer NI Nimish Ravi Cinematographer RO Roby Varghese Raj Cinematographer PR Praveen Prabhakar Editor

Reviews

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Critics' consensus

Unfavourable

Across 2 available source-linked Indian-media reviews for Bazooka, reception is unfavourable. The scored review is 30/100.

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Hindustan Times Latha Srinivasan
Writer and director Deeno Dennis clearly wanted to make a visually slick film based on a new premise where he could show a fashionable and stylish Mammukka, whom he seems to revere, in an extremely appealing way to his fans. He has added plenty of slo-mo and close-up shots and scenes to elevate Mammukka, but while doing all this, he has missed the real plot of the story. Case in point - the police investigation has numerous loopholes, and logic flies out the window, with some of the dialogues not helping either. Along with such inane lines, there is thunderous, uplifting BGM by music director Saeed Abbas, who's also added a foot-tapping rap song called Loading Bazooka by actor-singer Sreenath Bhasi to liven up the proceedings.
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The Indian Express Anandu Suresh
★★★★★ ★★★★★ 1.5/5
However, what could have been a stylish techno-thriller of sorts is squandered due to Deeno’s poor writing. While one might have expected that the movie would offer glimpses of high-tech, sleek games to drive the narrative, we are instead bombarded with references to simple, outdated games like Super Mario and Temple Run. At one point, even Snakes and Ladders makes an appearance. Were the makers trying to dumb down things for the gaming illiterates or evoke nostalgia? Either way, it has backfired in a big way, making everything feel extremely juvenile.
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Soundtrack

  • Loading Bazooka Sreenath Bhasi

Technical specs

Release date
10 Apr 2025
Run time
151 min
Language
Malayalam
Country
IN
Director
Deeno Dennis