Beast Movie Synopsis: Former RAW officers held hostage in a terrorist hijacked shopping district fail the plan and prevent the government from releasing the terrorists he might have imprisoned at great personal expense. Have to. Beast Movie Review: His previous films, Koramaab Kokira and Dr. Nelson, have infused humor into situations that may not have been interesting on paper. Also, in Beast,  he takes  serious situations, hostage situations and tries to make them interesting. But this time he is far from successful. In fact, this movie brings out little of the laughter it should have been, and always makes us laugh when it comes to becoming a Macello movie.  The film does begin promisingly. We get a prologue involving Veera Raghavan (Vijay), a senior RAW officer who ends up psychologically scarred following a mission to capture a mostwanted terror mastermind (Liliput Faruqui). He leaves the organisation and is trying to get rid of his demons, but then, the mall which he is at with his girlfriend Preethi (Pooja Hegde, whose main function is to be eye candy) is taken over by terrorists. The government`s negotiator Althaf Hussain (a wry Selvaraghavan, making his acting debut) manages to coax Veera into taking up the rescue mission, but can he succeed?  The problem with Beast is that it has a protagonist who is too strong given a mission that never seems to be a challenge. The terrorists hardly seem dangerous (they barely kill anyone, even when trying to put fear in the hearts of the hostages), and the mission hardly comes across as something of a daunting task for a daredevil like Veera. None of the hijackers have any personality, including their leader Saif (Ankur Ajit Vikal). "Innum konjam tough kuduthurukalam," Veera tells Saif towards the end of the film, and it only highlights how weak the antagonist in the film is.  As in Doctor, Nelson gives his protagonist a bunch of oddballs with whom he needs to team up to take down the terrorists, but unlike in that film, the characters here hardly get enough screen time or motivation to be memorable. Only VTV Ganesh manages to generate a few laughs while the shtick involving Yogi Babu and Redin Kingsley gets tiresome after a while. Even the clumsy gang duo of the previous work, Mahari and Kiri, do not leave an impression this time.  In stark contrast to the doctors who saw such characters working together as a team in combat scenes (such as memorable scenes in the metro), here are others who exist primarily to make jokes. And Vijay doing everything. Women in particular are completely left behind. Curiously, Nelson gives more screen time to some of the characters that are frustrating Core-the old lady Subbalakshmi in the hostages of the mall and the union minister with personal motives.