It is a performances centric movie

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Sagar alias Jackie,known to be the stylish movie in Malayalam is awful.It is rich in style.No doubts. But lacks substance. The same year we had a Bollwood movie released named Blue which was high on style but lacked story.Direction by Amal Neerad is bad. The music is bad.Barring the title track. Cinematography is excellent.Performance wise-Superstar Mohanlal rocks!The baddies are bad,while Shobhana and Bhavana are okay.We get even to see Pranav Mohanlal,son of Mohanlal.Overall Sagar alias Jackie is bad.

SAJ is a very stylized movie. Even though the story is not that good. Watch the movie if you are a great Mohanlal fan...Its worth to see his actions. The combination of Mohanlal with Bhavana doesn't seem to match. If you don't have anything else to do, this movie is worth while to watch. It looked like the film uses an English movies background score. Jyothirmayi in an item number with a small skirt on was just sad. It's not good to see a talented actress like her do item numbers like this. Some of the scenes remind people of the English movie 'bourne ultimatum'. Mohanlal didn't show a lot of expression in this film, which doesn't impress a lot of people. Its very rare to see him without a lot of expression, maybe its because of the character. The film doesn't justify to original movie 'Irupatham Noottandu'. Even though, they been saying its not the second part of that movie and they only took the character's name from the movie. Overall, The movie doesn't have an originality, but like i said if you are a great Mohanlal fan go ahead and watch it.

Watch this movie if you love movies that are 'so bad' it's good.All this movie has is Mohanlal walking accompanied to a background score.He walks and talks. Walks and talks some more. And some more. And a little more. And then the film ends. And he talks some more.The production design is good. So are the costumes. Two redeeming points in this otherwise sorry effort.The sun flare shots are overdone.Frankly, it's Mohanlal who saves the day. The only scene that works and blows life into a dead audience, is the scene set to the old background score composed by Shyam. Where Mohanlal introduces himself as Sagar Alias Jacky.The only thing dumber than the movie is the dumb audience. Mistaking visual trickery for style. That too quite ordinary visuals lacking heart, soul or cinematic vision. The staging is static and lacks dynamism. For style - go watch Chunking Express or Kill Bill or even No Country for Old Men OR go watch Ayan (tamil) or Aamir, Ghajini or Johnny Gaddar or A Wednesday. Yo, Amal Neerad, looks like all you know is putting on some style. But style isn't enough to make a good movie. Go back to making ads.

Big B was a pathbreaking movie considering the visual style and action.It was a fine work but not a great movie.But SAJ disappoints in all the fields.I admit it has style, but unlike Big B the movie doesn't have any magic moments.U have Mohanlal walking in slow motion the entire time.The Action scenes were not thrilling,the plot was so stupefying,it's just the old wine in new bottle.Mohanlal's performance was intense.Cinematography was good ,Amal Neerad himself did it.S.N.Swamy is outdated.It was a wrong decision to hand him the scripting duties which i think may have made Amal Neerad confined.The Script had utterly failed the Visual Style of SAJ with bad plot uncool one liners, and idiotic humour.Forgettable Songs,Background score was heavy,gave me headaches.The Chemistry between Mohanlal and Bhavana was ridiculous & unneeded.Altogether SAJ is a disappointing movie,doesn't deliver at all,go in if you like Mohanlal and some cool shots!