Christopher follows the story of a vigilante cop who has to take law into his own hands following heinous crime against women. The story here is average and has nothing new to offer. But often I have seen wafer thin plots backed by an interesting and cerebral screenplay and I was hoping for the same here. Unfortunately, that did not arrive! The screenplay standing at almost 150 minutes does make for a strenuous watch, something which is a rarity as far as Malayalam films go!

The drama opens with the introduction of the antagonist who presumably would have a face-off with the protagonist Christopher at a later point in the proceedings. Soon, the super-cop is introduced as he guns down a couple of men for a heinous crime against a couple of women. The theme is set and so is the stage. But to give you a perspective on how poorly written is the screenplay, there is a rape scene every 15 minutes during the first half. My point was that why did you have to repeat the same set of points which you already had while establishing its theme. I do agree that an investigation revolving around the protagonist would have similar instances from the past. But here was the writing test in trying to differentiate the instances while keeping the theme intact. And this is where the writing does fail. It is borderline problematic too as there was no way a cop could getaway with as many encounters, as the number of bodies start to pile up.

The proceedings are dull and uninteresting and one of the reasons being the shallow characterization of almost all characters. Even the protagonist was pretty one-dimensional with no unique trait to him. The women around him are even more poorly written, all with the same coat of paint. The entire first half had me distracted and how! Things get marginally better in the second half in the second half with the stakes being raised slightly more than the shallow first half. But the proceedings just do not allow the viewer to root for the protagonist or even remotely connect with him at any given point of time.

The drama is disjointed, trying to be smarter than it actually is. The links and subplots that are unleashed do not exude any sort of confidence. The dullness in the screenplay does continue right throughout wherein the one-dimensional drama does not introduce any twists and turns too. This in no way did feel like a Malayalam film and neither did it seem like a Mammootty film. I was surprised at the script selection here and how it did get approved in the first place. It was sketchy and quite drab despite people saying that this is way better than Aarattu. If you are comparing this film with a previous dud, you know you are in deep trouble, just like the screenplay that just had me holding my head during the dying minutes of the film. The final act is likewise underwhelming, thus summing up the screenplay with was plain average.