Review of One

One (II) (2021)
4/10
Lacks interesting plot. Below average.
31 March 2021
This movie heavily lacks an interesting plot. So many subplots and so many characters are present, but none of them end up making any lasting impact. It's a seemingly disjoint set of scenes which try to showcase the so called power of the main character, the Chief Minister, Kadakkal Chandran. This is done only because of the star value of Mammootty. They have milked it beyond a level. Slo mo scenes and random long dialogues for practically no reason. Just for some fans to applaud.

Some subplots get some heavy build up at first, but they either end up becoming unimportant or they end up getting totally discarded by the makers., leaving the audience wondering why were those subplots even showed in the first place.

This movie has a very long list of actors who do character roles. But none of them are actually important. There is Murali Gopi, Joju George, Alancier, Sreejith Ravi, Renjith, Shankar Ramakrishnan, Suresh Krishna, Jagadeesh, Meghanadhan, Prem Kumar, Risa Bava, P. Balachandran etc. You name them, they are there. Some of them are even there just for one scene or two. Why even bring them in here if you are not giving them any real roles.

This was like a one man show with no good plot or any character development to make us feel invested. The main conflict is of very low stake. It's just an idea. There was no proper execution of that idea to turn it into something which the viewers would root for.

The climax was the most boring part of the whole movie. A few cuts here and there, trimming the run time to just two hours would've at least made this movie a bit more bearable.
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