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The movie was supposed to be in an international action style ( almost like Fast and Furious) and it has failed miserably. It was just an awful one man show and not really logical. I personally enjoyed Vedalam, but this was just awful. Especially the slow dialogues and song scenes are just cringe worthy. Ajith has a lot of blind fans, fans who just love the person, his looks and personality, but have no idea of what acting is or the quality of it.They just support his movies blindly. Im someone who prefers a better acting rather than the big name actors. His role and acting in Vedalam was outstanding, but this was just too much. I hope he doesn't go for movies with a plot like this.

Vivegam (2017): When you're in a mass-hero film, two important aspects are prerequisite. One: Whether it has a panoply of mass scenes to make your theatre experience... deafening. And two, whether it caters to the star's fans.If the movie is a typical commercial film,we may allow that but when the movie is hyped as a spy thriller with grandeur scale and costly production values,we seriously expect a decent experience.Did Vivegam achieve it? Plot: Ajay Kumar (AK) is an agent working for a counter terrorism agency. The agency is in Serbia. He is wanted by 80 countries and many agencies as he is suspected to have gone rogue, misusing his power.His former friends in the agency headed by Aryan (Vivek Oberoi) are now hunting for him. In turn, Ajith Kumar is after people who betrayed him when he was on a mission to track Natasha (Akshara).How AK finds his betrayers and also saves his wife Yazhini (Kajal) is the rest of the story.

My Review: Five minutes into the movie,the opening scene itself clarifies that the so-hyped spy film is just another fan-mela film with unnecessary build-up shots and loud music.

Consider Ajith's introduction scene. An army officer locks a weapons deal with a terrorist organisation. When he's cautioned about the Counter Terrorist Squad, the general says, "Even the wind needs my permission to enter into my territory." Ideally, you would expect Ajith Kumar to show up. But the wind gently ruffles Ajith's salt-and-pepper hair.There are lot of fan moments in the film and scene after scene makes this movie look like a Fan-Made trailer sorta thing.

Director Siva and Ajith, in their third consecutive collaboration, go all out to present a film on an international scale and going by the standards they've set, it's truly remarkable. The attempt is ambitious and the team's effort is commendable, but what's the point of all this hard work when it is not backed by an engaging story. Despite going international, in terms of scale and vision, Siva's filmmaking style is still loud and over-the-top mostly. It defeats the whole purpose of giving the story an international touch.

Except for ridiculous opening scene,rest of the action scenes are handled good but have lot of illogical factors.The pre-interval portion, especially the stretch that leads to Akshara Haasan's introduction, is easily the film's best sequence. It builds the tension effectively and is followed by a breathtaking chase sequence on the streets of Serbia.

Ajith in the role of an agent is in top form. He has done some high-octane action sequences terrifically. Indeed it is his show all the way.Ajith's physical transformation deserves special praise, and he has worked really hard, despite shooting in extreme climatic conditions. He carries the film on his shoulders and turns in a never seen before kind of performance.

Music is bad and Cinematographer must have undergone severe pain following the directors messy vision.

So,Vivegam may look grand because of foreign locations and action scenes but it is just a typical mass-masala film.Watch it only for Ajith and action scenes.

My Rating 5.5/10

An epic to Tamil film industry. It's kinda feel that are we watching a Tamil film or a international film.The strength and the backbone of the film is none another the mass HERO THALA'AJITH'.The pillars of the film is Dir.SIVA and cinematography by VETRI and Editor RUBEN and Music by ANIRUDH. Each frame came like a bullet and gives you a goosebumps every minute. Emotions of a husband and wife..wow factor worked there.It's like Mangatha PART-2 like the MASS Into,Interval,Climax.25 years of determination yes indeed, I admire and respect. A trademark in his film history and a huge treat for all THALA'AJITH' FANS. AJITH sir have to join in movies like 'JAMES BOND-Film's' 'MISSION IMPOSSIBLE'and 'FAST AND FURIOUS'.

This is the only film in my entire life, I walked out of the cinema before the Interval. Don't they even watch the film by themselves, before the release? Waste of Ajith's talent and every viewers time. Well done Akshara, only consolation. Scripts are very much dramatic. I don't usually write reviews. I am so fuming with anger, hence I decide to give a piece of my mind. Also heard that it is a box office hit...., you can't be serious.

This movie is a perfect spy thriller movie. This movie was given mixed reviews to positive reviews from critics, despite the degradation of the movie from many sides. This movie is a complete family entertainer, with no aggressive or brutal scenes. The protagonist, Ajith Kumar's role in this movie and his hard work for the movie was critically acclaimed. Overall, it is a worth-watching movie, and a complete feast for the fans of the actor, Ajith Kumar !!!

This is another typical one man taking on hundreds of goons kind of movie. Do not waste your time and money on this piece of waste. Kajal is just a side character with no real importance at all and is just a filler. expected much after the success of Vedalam, but this is a plain mockery ! watch at your own risk

I heard lot of negative comments on this movie so went and watched in Theater with my wife. I think this movie had taken Tamil Movie to next level. Most of the scenes, cinematography,stunts Directions are in a different range competing with Hollywood movie making. Ajith is almost like JASON BOURNE and every time when I watch Jason Bourne series I use to wonder will they ever make Tamil movie like it but SIVA and his camera man proved it along with the stunt master it is possible. Most of the technology terms and secret agencies terminology may not reach the village audience. Anytime when they make such movies I don't expect any great stories and I am OK with it. If Ajith is the HERO for this movie, I can say Director SIVA and Camera man are the Super Heroes and AJITH had given the BEST of his BEST. Good Luck to the hardworking team which went thru lot of hardships in Bulgaria and other East European countries.

Ajith's this action movie was not as good as I was expecting. Starting 15-20min will be hard for you to stay at your seat becoz of over actions and dialogues. This movie is full of Over Action as other south movies are, Good comedy, Drama, Thriller, Romance, Betrayal. This movie is watchable with your family. This movie Collected 160cr worldwide among the tremendous budget of 130cr with verdict of Below Average.

VIvegam is just another mass type movie but fails on many aspects. Completely illogical action scenes along with terrible screenplay really ruin the movie. Ajith tries his best, but there is only so much an actor can do with a terrible director in charge. Vivek Oberoi's character could have been explored more, but he spends 99% of his time praising his enemy, to the point it's very annoying. Other illogical scenes include white people speaking Tamil, and any scene with Kajal Aggrawal.

The only positive side was the use of VFX, and some of the cinematography. Otherwise, it's a terrible movie. Will not recommend

The reason for saying it is a must watch is because, at least after seeing this movie, the impression on Indian Action movies among the audiences will change. This is one hell of an action ride.

The movie revolves around a SPY agent 'AK' and his quest to stop the people who wants to create artificial earthquakes using Plutonium weapons.

I like this movie not because the genre is new to Indian Cinema. It is because the way they executed it. Apart from some cliché heroism like evading hundreds of bullets, the movie is executed upon a beautiful emotional quotient.

The stunt sequences are too brilliant and the way it was conceived by the writer and executed by him.

Coming to the story part, the writer(and director) Siva has come up with the usual spy story. But instead of exploring the story, he made it a cat and mouse game kinda screenplay. It itches a little bit when we see something that could've been explored better was left to be a thin plot instead.

Pros :

1. Jet Speed Screenplay,

2. Action Sequences,

3. Ajith's Screen Presence

4. Siva's Direction

5. No smoking, drinking, glamour scenes or vulgar dialogues.

6. Screenplay talking about self motivation and positivity.

Cons :

1. CG could've been better.

2. Climax is tooooooo f*****g dramatic.

3. Predictable interval twist.

I came by some reviewers saying it is not logical in some scenes (like the dam scene). I would say, "Folks! This is how spy movies are made. This is how action movies are made. Period!!!" If you can accept people falling from planes with their cars, why would this disturb you? Just because it is an Indian movie?? or because it is not directed by Shankar or Rajamouli?? Change your view people. Take pride when it happens.

Overall: This movie is a treat for Action Movie lovers. It is a WORTHY PopCorn Flick. Go for it!!!

WHY IS THIS RATED 7 STARS.

I am a die hard fan of Ajith and i could not bare even first five minutes of this movie.

my review in short words. I do not even want to waste my time to review this film.

Cliché. Boring. Shoots at-least a 100 men in 5 seconds and do not event get a scratch. Worst direction. Worst cinematography. Shitty dialogues.

Please do not make movies like this ever. I am begging to everyone who are making dumb films like this.

Two years of wait is over finally ;) Cinematography, Art Work, Editing, Action sequences, Emotions between Husband and wife, Music (including bgm) are the big advantage to this venture of Thala Ajith and Siva. Most importantly, the amount of efforts put in by Thala for the movie is command-able. Akshara's role could have been given a little more time given the weight-age of her character in the narration. Credits to the director for believing in Kajal's acting ability given her screen presence in the movie elsewhere, the heroines just look beautiful in mass action movies. The story-line is very predictable towards the end of first half, even though Thala has done a command-able job and his charisma is just mesmerizing yet again. It would have been even better, if Vivek Oberoi's role had got more fire power in the second half in particular and the suspense was carried throughout for at least 2 hrs of run time ;) Overall a Visual Treat

Wonderful Movie in terms of Cinematography, Music and BGM, super fast screen play and acting from lead casts.

Stunning efforts By Ajith.

Excellent dedication and performance.

Expected a little more intense action from Vivek Oberoi.

MUST WATCH.

There are directors who love to add excessive slow-motion to scenes. And there's Siva. He adds 'fast-motion' to his set-pieces. We don't get to see what's really happening, because the camera moves at lightning speed and so does the hero (all his movies have been about hero- worship with an overdose of family sentiment - this shtick has reached its tiresome saturation. It's 2017, not the 80s anymore!). The break- neck editing style doesn't accentuate the viewing experience either. Even if (some of the) set-pieces in 'Vivegam' are clap-worthy in terms of ideas, this jump-cut method kills the execution almost completely. Except for the hero who owns every frame he's in, we don't even know who's getting beat-up or killed.

Remember what Dicaprio had to go through in 'The Revenant' (the struggle in the cold, wilderness while recovering from injuries)? Well, Siva summarizes all that toil (and more, like doing inverted crunches) in a song where Anirudh screams 'Thalai Viduthalai'. Vivek Oberoi who plays the major antagonist and secret-society agent (I'm not kidding) Aryan, although welcomed initially as a neat addition to the ensemble, persistently keeps heaping praises on his arch- nemesis (who he addresses throughout the movie as 'Nanbaa') Ajay "AK" Kumar (played by none other than Ajith Kumar) a renowned covert (contrasting choice of words, but that's exactly what he is - he makes stealthy moves but he blows places up and shoots everyone he doesn't like) operations specialist, who's betrayed by his own team.

Aren't even the most generic hero-villain sagas more entertaining when the villain is always two steps ahead of the hero? Here, it's the other way round. AK has a solution for everything, and I mean everything. Before an idea even cooks up in Aryan's head, AK's already executing it. "That's AK for you!" - Aryan himself says this like ten times. As if we didn't know. Meh.

Yes, everyone including white Europeans speak Tamil (either via double-layering or directly) which is fine considering we can at least fixate our eyes on the proceedings and not the subtitles. But the accents make the delivery sound unintentionally funny on most occasions. The foreign actors do a very generic job and their dubbing / lip-sync is terrible. Worst, Siva is trying to follow the 'Bond' template but one that's strictly grounded to suit Tamil cinema sensibilities. So the hero doubles as a family man, the best husband around, who at times even fries onions at his wife's (Yazhini, played by Kajal Aggarwal) South Indian restaurant (based in central Europe mind you, yet replete with saree-clad attenders and 'Rajavin Parvai' singing executive chefs) when he isn't frying someone's head on his job.

Technical mumbo-jumbo is spat out from almost every character in the movie - each character in AK's team is given a one-shot intro scene (with an animated pop-up that details their work stats - Gosh, the funniest stuff you'll read. For eg. Skill #3 of the 'Head of Interrogation' - INTERROGATION!). The spelling errors are glaring - STRATERGIST for 'Strategist' (Really?); Mission Coun? Where's the T? How can you trust the instincts of a movie that can't even get its spellings right?

'Vivegam' also has the worst hero-introduction scene in recent times. Subpar visual effects try to convey the fact that our hero, who took his own sweet-time to mumble a few lines in Tamil followed by "Never, ever give up!" to a bunch of military grade officers, had just jumped off a lofty dam - shooting and adjusting his watch on his way down and swimming away to safety. Kajal's character is added just to elevate the character played by Ajith. We have scenes where she keeps reinstating how she is the luckiest wife in the world to have a husband like him, and the quintessential 'passing the inspiration' scene where she goads her husband to kill everyone who betrayed him. Heck, our man bothers to mouth exhausting monologues to the antagonist over the phone even when his wife is struggling in labor. Towards the end, even Aryan seems to have given up - he tells AK exactly what he plans to do and how he's gonna go about it (makes things easy, right?).

Bits and pieces of 'Surviva' are used effectively as BGM, while the rest sound too noisy. The climax set-piece, set in a cave, comes exquisitely wrapped with the "Holy sh*t!" moment. See it to believe it.

Verdict: Alt+Ctrl+Delete!

One of the best mocie i would seen ever in south cinema super duper good dialogues and the story is also plus point of a movie you are understand the story how the technology use and missused i thjs days in the world 9/10

This is not a movie this is like a trashcan. Because I can't expect this movie in ajith sir. Director siva fully collapsed that script. kajal and ajith pair excellent selection. Especially kajal agarwal climax dialogue song awsome.