Despite the presence of capable actors, the performances are mechanical at best. The exchanges between Mammootty’s character and Sunny (Hakim Shahjahan), a software architect-cum-gamer, are tedious and pretentious. Sunny initially comes across as a comic relief, but he soon becomes an important part of the storyline. Even then, his sudden transition to become the truth-seeker is unconvincing. One of the very few memorable segments in the film is a robbery attempt during a temple festival. Everything from the colours, cinematography, artwork, and music in that entire sequence come together brilliantly. However, the makers fail to recreate anything close to that in the subsequent portions. The worst of all is how amateurishly the stadium heist sequence is filmed. This inconsistency is evident throughout the film. Saeed Abbas’ techno-heavy music also starts off promising, only to get repetitive and jarring after a point. You feel like you are in the middle of a rave party rather than a film.
Bazooka has Mammootty sleepwalking through it for the most part. But eventually, when he comes into his ‘game’, he manages to create some excitement. In gaming terms, this surge in energy is like a cheat code to salvage a lost game. However, the damage until then is so severe that there’s hardly any scope for redemption.