Review of Abraham Ozler

Ozler is an engaging crime drama with its fair share of problems. It mostly sticks to the genre conventions and keeps you interested in the proceedings without much superfluous ambitions. The background score was very effective at times but it was also overused very much. Jayaram was not bad but it felt like someone else would've been better. But it was in the second half that the performances really started shining with all the young cast from the flashback and Mammooty's cameo stealing the whole thing for themselves. I'm glad that the flashback didn't use an easy way with a certain character which I honestly am tired and horrified too much by so many recent movies, which ultimately is not the fault of the movies but the dark reality of our society. But it kind of felt refreshing that such a shock value (so much of it has turned it into normal now, I guess) choice is not used again here even if the totality of it is still cliche. The use of the classic song "Poomaaname" and its visualization was so wonderful. It really felt perfectly integrated and now I want more and more recreations like this to happen. The ending that comes back to the beginning to set up the sequel felt nicely done and more than that suspense itself, the motivation of helping the protagonist to reach there is something I'd love to watch if the sequel happens.

This may not be as technically well made as Anjaam Pathira but even Anjaam Pathira was a template serial killer story that is way more straightforward than this. And another movie that is much more predictable and not even as well made as this is still successfully playing in theatres, so I really don't understand the kind of mixed response this is getting.