Level Cross

A good attempt from the creators. There are very few movies like this from Malayalam cinema. Asif Ali has done an amazing job and so far 2024 has been rewarding him so well, lots of good movies with characters of different shade.

The production design is the highlight of this film and the location also plays an important role in the movie. The movie is slow-paced and this is where it becomes a tedious task for the audience. It would have been great to wrap it up early but the movie went on and on. Even though it's only 90 minutes, I found the film somewhat difficult to watch. Many thriller elements could have been added to this movie but anyway I appreciate the effort from the director.

Asif Ali and Amala Paul excel in this movie. The two are different personalities coming from different backgrounds living in different environments, yet share some commonalities. Asif is crude and unrefined working as a gateman at a railway level crossing while Amala Paul is a psychiatrist.

They come to meet each other circumstantially in a remote desert setting at the Railway Level Crossing and embark on a process of mutual discovery on human relationships and life experiences.

Asif Ali excels in his mannerisms and body language as a crude and unrefined person but yet his personality is conditioned by his living circumstances.

So after getting recommendations from Instagram Reels about this movie, I went to witness it's mystery which is definitely not made for all and of course suitable for those audiences who have patience and have no problems with slow burn conversational dramas.

From Storyline POV it's extremely simple and straightforward in nature. But if we put our philosophical theories in the End then it's gonna definitely amaze you. The Screenplay was also little bit in slower side however the duration of this entire movie is properly cut down for any average movie watchers. The Cinematography of this movie felt rich and brilliant especially in the first 12Min of this movie where the Director doesn't put any lines for the Character, The leading character and all over his surrounding was extremely silent But we can simply got the narration in details through our visual memories. You are gonna rate it High or Low depends on your understanding about it's Climax and those hard hitting Metaphors. From Acting POV the Male Leading character was definitely good and Amala Paul also did justice to her role. She looked like Deepika Padukone in this entire movie with same facial recognitions and same kind of Body structures. And another character's appearance was extremely less but good for sure.

From My side it will be 6 Out of 10 Stars for it and it's safe to go with 13+ but I'm not sure whether you are gonna watch it with family or not because 2 mild intimate scenes were there in this movie so choose accordingly. A decent one time watch...

Though not seen much Malayalam movies, I saw this movie by postive reviewes. I found movie absolutely fresh and well written.. story start with alone man working in remote area near railway crossing..his life change when he found girl near crossing...movie initially start slow to portray man's routine but after 30 minutes you will force to know story of both main characters..it's not typical masala movie but slow burn thriller...after minutes by minutes your excitement leval is gone up...I found main lead actor is very versatile...his dressing mannerism and involvement of character is fabulous.. definitely watch movie for thrilling elements..only downpart is climax.which I feel should done better.

Well, let me phrase out positives and negatives which I felt about the movie:

Positives * Asif Ali's performance was really good. Amala Paul was also good, but I didn't find the performance of Sharaf, that convincing.

* Movie was visually great. We all were wondering where is this shot. From the first scene itself, the movie took us into another far far place.

*Even though some parts of the movie was predictable, climax was not what thought was going to happen(Didn't see that coming!! 😅) *Even though the movie was slowly paced, it was interesting and we would feel curious on what is happening and what could happen *Dialogues were realistic * Definitely a good attempt in making

Negatives *Some part of the plot were totally predictable *Even though it was an interesting watch, it was not all that nail bitting thriller.

Overall, I would say a cliche sentence. Not everyone's cup of tea. But I really liked the making and aesthetically appealing visuals. To some extent, it was thrilling and interesting.