The stakes and expectations were at an unparalleled high when The King & The Commissioner hit the screens. It was the return of Mammootty's most popular character, Joseph Alex Thevalliparambil IAS and the third entry to Suresh Gopi's extremely admired character Bharath Chandran IPS. But the movie was nothing less than a disaster in waiting. It was basically the old wine in new bottle, which tasted even worse. All the power packed dialogue sequences didn't add anything to the movie, though it helped a lot to improve our English vocabulary. Thanks to screenwriter Renji Panicker for that.