Bigil

It is third time lucky for us, the viewers, in case of this Vijay-Atlee combo.

Director Atlee presents a decent entertainer which mines the charisma of the star to a large extent.

Bigil also benefits from the fact that the entire movie and the semblance of a story is not entirely buried under the build-up for the star.

In Bigil, Atlee places his star Vijay shining bright at the center of the universe with the plot itself and the subplots merrily orbiting him as minor satellites.

Rahman delivers a rousing anthem and a good score. There is nothing - including the music or performances - that could be counted as superlative in any sense. Still, the entire movie works and doesn't feel like a tedium despite having a runtime of almost three hours.

The fact that this movie remains largely coherent on a whole does not make you cringe despite its runtime is no minor blessing.

"Sarkar" from Vijay made the expectations high. But this film will not bore you but neither impress you. The Football scenes has less gameplay reality more cinematic shots. The real lover of the game will feel annoyed. This 3 hours film is old revenge story with a cover of Football.

Bigil - a movie that you expect to see on a Deepavali weekend, which took the usual social message formula pretty seriously. Not only that, the execution got the right emotions from almost everyone. There are tons of things that could've been done better - draggy screenplay, father-son interactions, romantic portion etc. and yet, the film still works out. Reason - Thalapathy letting his girls to do the job!

The latter half was dominated by the girls, which actually made the film happening, apart from the comic relief by Yogi and Vivek. ARR delivered one of the finest BGM for a non-Maniratnam movie, after a long time

The way this man carries the movie, Thalapathy Vijay is surely in his pinnacle of his career.

Witnessing a man making mockery of how unbearable the movie was, and yet staying through till the end credits, summarises the result!

Bottomline - a fantasy commercial film backed up by high production value.

Go for it. Have fun. But, don't forget to switch off your critic sense, especially if you are a football fanatic.

Bigil

Vijay shines as Rayappan and Michael. There is no flaw in his acting. Nayanthara's Angel Character was a burden to the film. It slowed down the first half. Vivek could have been used for more scenes.

Instead of Angel and the love scenes, Bigil's love towards football or Rayappan's love towards Bigil could have been showed more.

First half - 2/5 (2 only for Rayappan) Second half - 5/5 Total - 7/10

Worst Movie in Recent Times in Tamil Cinema. Too Much Lags and Dull Scenes are the drawbacks of the movie. Atlee's worst ever attempt and lengthy duration testing audience patience. Emotional Scenes are well connected.