Game Changer Movie Review – The Hits and Misses of Ram Charan’s New Movie

Direction: Expectations Down The Drain

Shankar as the screenplay writer and the director i.e. the captain of the ship creates many positives and negatives of the movie. For the positives, Shankar creating a movie completely in his zone is a major reason behind the movie’s hype. He has made a movie revolving around a forever honest hero fighting against every bad guy in the world, and a villain sitting at a big position who would go to any length to achieve his dreams even if it means destroying the world. With a magnum opus like budget, visually appealing songs, the highly technical aspects clearly visible in the end result and what could possibly go wrong?

Here’s what has gone wrong. Shankar misses out on creating the required impact of the confrontation scenes between the protagonist and the antagonist. Pivotal scenes that are meant to hit hard are highly rushed through and are made undeservingly comical. The romantic scenes between Ram Charan and Kiara Advani are mostly wasted.

Now coming to the VFX and technical department, the home ground of director Shankar. In case dialogues were not enough, Shankar uses the age-old trope of making extras fly off to nowhere by using CGI to make the scene visually interesting and it works! Other such gigs of his include animations, transition effects, keeping the audience hooked to see what more the magician pulls out of his hat.

Songs: A High-Cost Disappointment

The music composer Thaman S has done just a good job for Game Changer songs but nothing extraordinary. The dance sequences do create a good impression on the overall running of the movie but are nothing like a highlight of the movie. Jaragandi stands out as the best of the album as it is addictive and visually beautiful too. It is followed by Dhop, showcasing the technical mastery of the director Shankar along with Ram Charan’s dancing skills.

Arugu Meedha stands as a beautiful melody for your ears, playing in the background while Ram Charan as Appanna struggles to solve his stammering problem. Raa Macha Macha is just an average song, serving as the entry of the lead hero in his territory. Konda Devara tries to hype up the lead actor with its presence but fails to create the deserving impact.

The Background Music Score by Thaman S is the best work the composer has done for the film. In every action and thrilling scene, the BGM is successful in elevating the hero’s image and power but due to overuse of the same music, the BGM does start feeling tiresome after a point. This becomes a contributing factor in wasting the potential of the 2nd half of the movie.

The Positives: What to Like

Game Changer excels in its clever and unpredictable writing by story writer Karthik Subbaraj and screenplay writer Shankar. Unique ideas like “Bina paise ke politics karenge”, “Agar kuch accha karna ho to sahi waqt ka intezar nahi karte” really strike a chord, catching the emotions of the audience. Just by getting a look at the trailer, it may seem like a typical masala entertainer you have watched a thousand times in your life but it is not.

Most importantly, the film could introduce you to many various sections of Indian laws and legal formalities that you may not be aware of. How Ram Nandan tackles every corrupt businessman, corrupt ministers is all a showcase of clever writing.

As the film begins with Ram Charan’s South Indian-ish entry scene with the gangsters screaming “Tujhe ye nahi pata wo IAS banne se pehle kya tha!” “Kya Tha?” “IPS tha be!!!” fighting 10 goons alone in a vest and a lungi, you feel like the movie would only peak from here on. Shankar touches his next peak with the interval block where the CM Sathyamurthy on his deathbed, announces the now-suspended district collector Ram Nandan as the next CM of the state and that scene almost sets a standard for elevation scenes!

The narrative moves with a smooth flow, not letting the audience miss out on any instance of plot detail or character development. Shot on a massive scale, it gives true justice by leaving the audience waiting for the series of thrills that are yet to be seen post-interval.

The dialogues by Sai Madhav Burra feel not too good but not too bad either. He has done a good job though but nothing that you never expected. “I am unpredictable!” is one dialogue that stands out as the character description of Ram Nandan and the overall movie.

The Negatives: What Not To Like

Coming to the shortcomings, Game Changer has a lot of negatives which could have been positives but the rushed duration of the movie brought a different fate. First of all, the 1st half is average only due to the time wasted in the romantic scenes, distracting the audience from the movie on to their mobile phones. Those could have been made impactful to really catch the audience in the love story of Ram Nandan and Deepika but at the end, they got a lazy treatment.

While watching the 2nd half, you come to realise that the movie has lost its worth. The clever writing in the entire 2nd half full of mind games by the two players could have made the movie a masterpiece but they were also rushed through like it’s nothing.

Introduction to Appanna’s past life is the only good thing that stands out in the 2nd half. Every other scene featuring Ram Nandan as the election commision officer shows him laughing as if politics is a joke. He attacks Mopidevi with a law he must not break during the elections, Mopidevi screams and goes mad, Satyam gets a punchline, Munimanikyam jokes on Mopidevi’s bald head, Ram Nandan leaves with a loud BGM playing and the end. The shortcomings here is that all of this is wrapped up in half a minute. The entire 2nd half features tons of these half minute clips. While the audience tries to comprehend what just happened, another scene begins. After a point, this gets damn irritating.

Same is the problem during the climax fight between Ram Nandan and Mopidevi. Ram Charan continues with his jokes, Mopidevi keeps screaming loudly and breaking things, which makes a wannabe intense scene a joke. After the fight scene, the election ends, the opposition party wins, and Ram Nandan is announced as the CM. All of this is wrapped up in less than 5 seconds before the credits start loading, not giving either the characters or the audience the time to celebrate and root for our hero.

Rushes like these make you feel that the director Shankar wanted the audience to leave the theatres and start the next show asap. Even if you don’t feel anything special, this movie is sure to give you the fastest running 2 hours 45 minutes of your life.

Box Office Opening Note

As we discussed earlier the various factors behind the hype for Game Changer, the hype doesn’t translate to numbers. For a film of its stature, a Rs 100 cr worldwide Day 1 box office collection for the was the minimum trade expected but the film organically brought in only Rs 81.77 cr fetching in the most numbers domestically from AP/TS circuit and the USA and Canada territory for the overseas.

When you talk about the Game Changer vs Devara movie comparison, Game Changer turns out to be a slightly better film in its overall quality which is definitely miles above Devara. But when you judge them based on their box office reports, you find out that the Game Changer Box Office collection comes nowhere near Devara judging by the opening day collection of both the movies and the continuing trend for Game Changer.

Read for detailed insight on Game Changer Box Office Collection – Game Changer vs Devara movie comparison .

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