FIRST REPORT: OFFICER Review - Why Nagarjuna? Just Why? A Total Yawn-Fest...
The Shiva combo of Nagarjuna and Ram Gopal Varma are back on screen two decades after their last collaboration, and this time around, they're back with a cop thriller, with Nag donning the khaki after Shivamani. With both Nag and RGV in complete flop form, will the duo succeed this time around? Here's team AP Herald's exclusive Officer first report.
Officer revolves around a tough cop played by King Nagarjuna who enter Mumbai to investigate a fake encounter case, and his investigation leads him to senior cop Narayan Pasari. However, the evil Narayan gets out of jail and plans to counter-attack Nagarjuna. While he tries to frame Nag, how he escapes out of it, saves his daughter and hunts down Pasari is what officer is all about.
Officer exactly has nothing except King Nagarjuna who tries to save the proceedings with his screen presence. Bharat Vyas's cinematography is good, while music by Ravisankar is loud, and the movie for most parts moves at a dragged pace, with cliched and predictable scenes filled throughout, For a cop thriller, Officer does not have a single mass scene or an elevation sequence to highlight the protagonist or downplay the antagonist.
And with a totally disastrous choice of casting Narayan Pasari as a villain, RGV again torments audience, besides troubling with his pathetic screenplay. The second half moves at an even dragged pace than the first and ends with the audience getting relieved that officer is finally over. All said, Officer, is one movie that lacks everything, right from technicalities to content, and ends as a super dud.