Average, Watchable, time pass etc are some of the words used by the reviewers to describe Shaji Kailas-Suresh Gopi’s latest offering.  Beating the same theme again and again, this duo’s movies are becoming indistinguishable from one another.  And Suresh Gopi must be on his way to Guinness Book for doing most number of cop roles.

NowRunning.com reviews:

 Cinematography, editing, art direction and music are in tune with the theme and jell perfectly with the story and the tempo. Rajesh Jayaraman, who had earlier done the script for Moonnamathoraal, has improved and is in full control of things here. But still, he fails to maintain the tempo that he successfully builds up in the first half of the movie. In the post-interval section the film meanders into new tracks and the climax, though unexpected is very much like many Shaji Kailas films you have seen before.

The climax doesn’t impress as much as it was intended to. You leave the theatres saying that the film is good only up to the interval. The post-interval section is too crammed-up and stretchy and the average audience won’t like it. And that would prove problematic to Time at the box office. But still, the lead player Suresh Gopi, the director Shaji Kailas and the scenarist Rajesh Jayaraman deserve to be appreciated for having been in control till the very end. The film may not negatively impact their career graphs. It might even do them good. The same may not be the case for the producer.

IndiaGlitz.com comments:

Rajesh Jayaraman in his second attempt in scripting has decided to explore ‘social issues’ for his new film titled Time directed by techno savvy Shaji Kailas. As usual with our fellow filmmakers who occasionally take up issue based plots, this too ends up en route limp story lines, forced issues, a larger than life approach to the problem. The scriptwriter who wanted to tell a lot about political scams behind special economic zones, harkened journalism, terrorist funding to NGO’s  and the follies behind the  practice of ahimsa, packed  a lot in  a single movie .  And the final result is that his good intentions are being ruined by overt sermonizing and clumsy execution.
 
The film makes an impressive opening with hotchpotch of Shaji Kailas’ic shots and presentations. As in ‘Don’ he separates every sequences with subtitles, which passes all through the film. The film opens with the brutal killing of Krishnan Nambiar, the former minister who was forced to resign following allegations. As the investigations made by Alexander Mekkadan goes in a smallish pace, the Chief Minister, plans to change the team and hand over the charge to Dr.Appan Menon IPS, presently working as Civil supplies M.D.

Sify.com says:

we can call all these their prerogative thanks to freedom of expression, the violence in the film is often beyond normal levels, to say the least. Some of the characters openly support violence and justifies it with lines as ‘attack is the best form of defense’. The film has some sub plots as well, which has been linked to the storyline pretty well. Shaji Kailas has crafted the film in style but it is heavily influenced by his last year hit ‘Chintamani Kolacase’. The cinematography by Rajaratnam make the frames look really good but the music disappoints.

Suresh Gopi does the role of the macho man with conviction, but haven’t we seen him in similar roles many times? Here, it is a dual role, the other one as Appan Menon’s autocratic father, which he performs nicely. Vimala Raman needs just to look stunning, which she does quite easily and Padmapriya comes good as the beauty with the brains. Manoj K Jayan has nothing much to do, but it is Siddique, who is at his best with his dialogue delivery and mannerisms

Rediff.com comments:

The only thing we take home from the latest Shaji Kailas-Suresh Gopi Malayalam film, Time, is that in order to scriptwrite something like it, one needs to memorise news reports and link major political events to suit the hero. One should also be well-versed in the sacred texts of every religion, so one can twist those texts and integrate them into the dialogue. This is what Time’s scriptwriter, Rajesh Jayaraman, has done.

Meet Dr Appan Menon IPS (Suresh Gopi), a PhD in criminology called to investigate the gruesome murder of an ex-MLA who had resigned on charges of corruption. Appan Menon has been relegated to a desk job as head of Civil Supplies because of his eccentricities, but has successfully introduced a certain amount of discipline into the department.

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