CBI 5: The Brain

Glad to see Jagathy back! Mammootty, as always did a wonderful job. Salim Kumar was awesome and the BGM seemed nice. Overall impressive story, but it lacks a touch of classy direction and dialogues. The old school direction may be the reasom.

Sethurama iyyer was not required for this case any charector investigating such a case would have been ok but Sethurama iyer needs to do much more to impress, previous movies were that good.

A good, once to watch, suspense thriller, keeping in line with all the CBI movies released till now, but casting falling short of the past movies.

The movies falls short on the fact that Mamooty's character was not really needed to solve the mystery as in the past, or the mystery got unfolded by itself was a bit of a letdown.

The introduction of the protagonist in the fist half is so deliberate that the writer tried his max, but couldn't in anyway inculcate the character to show up in a way of investigation but on it own.

The similar clichés of CBI officials and interrogated people still continues and could have been done away with.

The inculcation of scenes that bare no requirement to the movie adds to the lag, both in first and second half of the movie. These scenes and characters have no meaning to the movie or plays any importance in the storyline.

But all in all, the writer and director has combined again well to bring out a good movie.

An one time watchable average movie.. If you have watched all cbi series, this would be definitely disappoint you.. Script and story telling is too weak that it feels like lagging just after few minutes of movie. Climax is somewhat expected but still okay...

I'm a huge fan of CBI series. Perhaps this was the first movie which I ever saw on first day first show without seeing the IMDB ratings and reviews.

Writing a sequel for a popular film series is an extremely tough task. Expectations are always high and we expect a better ones than the previous or at least a matching one. Here nostalgia is the marketing strategy. Films including James bond series work on this principle.

The movie revolve around a series of not so obviously related murders which police fails to resolves and thus case was handed over to CBI.

The script was weak and lagging through out the movie. Even the opening scenes featuring an induction session for the IPS trainees was badly written and executed.

Only beautiful and memorable scene in this movie is that of Jagathy. We miss you Sir!

The movie end with a lot of questions unanswered.

At the end I wish to set up another CBI investigation to find the missing script!