This is an exploitative movie with patriotism being the victim genre made specially for Vijay's fans. Let us start with a base score of 10.
1. The casting: Vijay doesn't suit the role of an Indian Army Captain. Vijay should sport crop cut hair style, non-colored hair, clean shaved face, no-nonsense Army discipline (instead of comical 'Attention' poses which is downright degrading to a respectful institution), dress as a Intelligence operative instead and not as a college goer and have a sense of for the Army Uniform (soiled shoes really?). Kajal just struts around in outfits and plays a dumb girl who is easily convinced into anything. A man would wonder why don't all women be like this in real life. The Sub-Inspector guy is dorky and dumb enough to accompany super hero Vijay. The dumber the guy who is with you, the smarter you seem. See a pattern here? Wasted talents: Jayaram and Vidyut. Rest of the cast: Nameless and without scope. -1 = 9/10
2. Storyline: Not applicable. I mean where is the story? -1=8/10
3. Songs: Nothing to write home about. The so called songs are below average in music and lyrics. I suppose people who initially 'loved' Kolaveri might think 'Google Google' is amazing. -1=7/10
4. Direction & Screenplay: Full of non-sense. 10% of ideas + 90% of crap to link the 10% of ideas. The dog can sniff Vijay's sister's scent when she had been kidnapped in a closed Qualis MUV? Vijay doesn't care that he just lost his mate from the same camp to a bomb along with 100s of civilians and MUST go on duet with dumb Kajal? The first bomber apparently doesn't know the full story but has a map with all the future target locations, the date and another sleeper cell. Whoa! This is no sleeper cell - its a terror network! You see, Tamil audience have not heard much about the term 'sleeper cell'. So the director plays the term like its a new trend. There is even a scene of a CBI director on a talk show explaining about it... When the girls are being held by the terrorists, there are enough bad guys inside that room, but not one to outside to keep watch? Yes so -2=5/10
5. Action: All bullets from Assault Rifles miss Vijay in gun fights? Superhuman strength in fights? Army men are not super men. Army men are ordinary men doing an extraordinary duty. -1=4/10
6. Script: Since most of the bad guys are Muslims, the director saw it fit to appease the community with a single 'tearjerker' scene of a Muslim father sending off his son in the Army at the end. Exploitative to the core. -1=3/10
Yes, Vijay fans love to give 10/10 for his movies. Get 50 of them to sign up on IMDb and post biased reviews and rating and you are guaranteed an Oscar. Yeah right.
1. The casting: Vijay doesn't suit the role of an Indian Army Captain. Vijay should sport crop cut hair style, non-colored hair, clean shaved face, no-nonsense Army discipline (instead of comical 'Attention' poses which is downright degrading to a respectful institution), dress as a Intelligence operative instead and not as a college goer and have a sense of for the Army Uniform (soiled shoes really?). Kajal just struts around in outfits and plays a dumb girl who is easily convinced into anything. A man would wonder why don't all women be like this in real life. The Sub-Inspector guy is dorky and dumb enough to accompany super hero Vijay. The dumber the guy who is with you, the smarter you seem. See a pattern here? Wasted talents: Jayaram and Vidyut. Rest of the cast: Nameless and without scope. -1 = 9/10
2. Storyline: Not applicable. I mean where is the story? -1=8/10
3. Songs: Nothing to write home about. The so called songs are below average in music and lyrics. I suppose people who initially 'loved' Kolaveri might think 'Google Google' is amazing. -1=7/10
4. Direction & Screenplay: Full of non-sense. 10% of ideas + 90% of crap to link the 10% of ideas. The dog can sniff Vijay's sister's scent when she had been kidnapped in a closed Qualis MUV? Vijay doesn't care that he just lost his mate from the same camp to a bomb along with 100s of civilians and MUST go on duet with dumb Kajal? The first bomber apparently doesn't know the full story but has a map with all the future target locations, the date and another sleeper cell. Whoa! This is no sleeper cell - its a terror network! You see, Tamil audience have not heard much about the term 'sleeper cell'. So the director plays the term like its a new trend. There is even a scene of a CBI director on a talk show explaining about it... When the girls are being held by the terrorists, there are enough bad guys inside that room, but not one to outside to keep watch? Yes so -2=5/10
5. Action: All bullets from Assault Rifles miss Vijay in gun fights? Superhuman strength in fights? Army men are not super men. Army men are ordinary men doing an extraordinary duty. -1=4/10
6. Script: Since most of the bad guys are Muslims, the director saw it fit to appease the community with a single 'tearjerker' scene of a Muslim father sending off his son in the Army at the end. Exploitative to the core. -1=3/10
Yes, Vijay fans love to give 10/10 for his movies. Get 50 of them to sign up on IMDb and post biased reviews and rating and you are guaranteed an Oscar. Yeah right.