Jack is a 2025 action comedy film written and directed by Bommarillu Bhaskar. The film has Siddhu Jonnalagadda & Vaishnavi Chaitanya playing the lead roles while Prakash Raj, Naresh, Brahmaji, Rahul Dev, Ravi Prakash, Subbaraju, Sanjay Swaroop, Shabir K, Ali Reza, Bindu Chandramouli & others are seen in important supporting roles. The music is composed by Achu Rajamani, Suresh Bobbili, and Sam CS while the film is produced by BVSN. Prasad under Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra banners.
Story:
Pablo Neruda, also known as Jack (Siddhu Jonnalagadda), is an academically brilliant individual who dreams of an exciting and meaningful career. Rejecting the idea of settling for a mundane and routine job, he sets his sights on becoming a RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) agent to serve his nation. Driven by this ambition, Jack attends an interview for a position in RAW. However, even before the agency officially announces the results, he takes matters into his own hands. Teaming up with another RAW aspirant, he embarks on a mission to capture a dangerous terrorist. The challenges Jack creates for himself, his partner, and the official RAW agents—who are already pursuing the same terrorist—unfold as the story progresses.
What about on-screen performances?
Siddhu Jonnalagadda is the only saving grace of the film, and his performance looks like he has continued from where he left off in Tillu Square. His comedy timing and his sharp dialogue delivery bring some life to an otherwise dull script as he tries to salvage things with his natural wit and flair. This time he does well with the action portions and improves a lot in his dances, too.
Vaishnavi Chaitanya does her part well and looks cute on screen. Her chemistry with Siddhu worked at places and didn’t in a few, mainly coz she looks physically small besides Siddhu.
Prakash Raj is pretty decent as the RAW officer who heads the mission. His comedy timing with Siddhu works well, but his role needed a bit of seriousness too.
Naresh and Brahmaji managed to bring in a few laughs in the opening portions, but unfortunately, their roles in the film remain quite limited.
Rahul Dev, Ravi Prakash, Subbaraju, Sanjay Swaroop, Shabir K, Ali Reza, Bindu Chandramouli, and all others are fine in their small roles.
What about off-screen talents?
The story by Bommarillu Bhaskar is not up to the mark with a routine terrorist-raw agent angle to it. With the growing OTT culture these days, the audience has seen many well-made SPY thrillers & investigation dramas that have an engaging narrative with some intelligent writing. But here, the writing looks silly in most of the investigation scenes.
Even the screenplay looks scattered with many half-baked scenes. The biggest drawback is that the writers tried to include every emotion into the plot right from action, patriotism, comedy, romance, mother sentiment, thrills, etc and this blend looks clumsy at the end. To be precise, all the scenes involving RAW agents look silly and logicless.
Director Bommarillu Bhaskar does a pretty ordinary job with his presentation, and his narration too is underwhelming. He seems to have been lost between what he wrote and how he wanted to present Siddhu on screen. The film feels like a comic spoof of spy thrillers that falls flat with a boring and unintelligent narrative. The film doesn’t even have his mark, as the film more or less looks like a Siddhu’s film.
The dialgues are fine. A few one liners work big time while a few dialogues between the lead pair look very similar to the Tillu’s book of witty lines.
The cinematography by Vijay C Chakravarthy is just above par, while it did look shoddy in a few scenes. Even the edit by Naveen Nooli isn’t up to the mark. The blur effect and the unwanted zooms that they tried in chase sequences didn’t look good screen.
The songs by Achu Rajamani & Suresh Bobbili are forgettable. None of the tracks click visually or audio-wise. The background score by Sam CS also fails to leave any impact, mainly because there’s nothing in the story worth elevating.
The production values by Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra are good in parts but could’ve been a lot better in few places.
What’s Hot?
* Siddhu Jonnalagadda’s Performance
* Vaishnavi Chaitanya’s Performance
* Scenes Between Siddhu & Vaishnavi
* Few Comedy Scenes Of Siddhu
* Entertaining Climax Portions
What’s Not?
* Half Baked Story & Clumsy Screenplay
* Many Illogical Scenes
* Investigation Scenes Look Silly At Times
* Forgettable Songs & Underwhelming Background Score
* Too Many Green Screen Shots
* Poorly Done VFX & Graphics
* Editing In Chase Sequences
* Weak Emotions
Verdict: Overall, Jack is a half baked Spy Action Comedy that doesn’t do full justic to the Spy portion nor the comedy portions or the action portions. Except for Siddhu’s comedy timing & his energy in the scenes, there is nothing much to look forward to in this attempt by Bommarillu Bhaskar.
Telugubulletin.com Rating: 2/5