The movie starts promising. Get a prologue that includes Veera Raghavan(Vijay), a senior RAW officer who was mentally injured after a misson to capture most desired terrorist mastermind(Lillipat Falki).
He leaves the organization and tries to get rid of his demons, but then the mall where he is with his girlfriend Preethi (Pooja Hedge, whose main function is eye candy) is taken over by terrorists. Government negotiator Altaf Hussein(Selvaraghavan on the cheek tongue making his acting debut) can somehow convince Veera to take on the rescue mission, but he can suceed. Do you?
The problem with the beast is that there is a hero who is too strong for a mission that never seems challenging. Terrorists look little dangerous(though they try to scare hostages, they rarely kill anyone), and misson don't seem like a daunting task for Daredevil like Veera. None of the kidnappers have a personality, including the leader Saif( Ankur Ajit Vikal). “Innum konjam tough kuduthurukalam,” Veera tells Saif towards the end of the movie, just emphasizing how weak the adversary is in the movie.
Like Dr., Nelson gives the protagonist a lot of weirdos to team up to defeat terrorists, but unlike the movie, the characters have enough screen time and motivation to be remembered here. You rarely get it. Only VTV Ganesh manages to laugh, and the disgust between Yogi Babu and Redin Kingsley gets tired after a while. Even the clumsy gang duo of the previous work, Mahari and Kiri, do not leave an impression this time. Vijay is doing something with other characters here, in stark contrast to the doctor who saw such characters working together as a team in battle scenes( such as memorable scenes in the metro). It mainly consists of providing jokes. Women in particular are completely left behind. Curiously, Nelson gives more screen time to some characters that are frustating Core-a-personal old lady(Subbalakshmi) in the hostages of Mole and a part of rescue operation. The union minister (Shaji) who has a strong motive.
Anirudh tries to punch the scene with his score, but by the time we reach the end, even if that doesn't work, it ends up with a slimmer, never-meaningful, or stronger sentence. Nelson now seems to have been completely dependent on his star to carry the movie, but even Vijay's star power is limited in the scripts he rarely works on.
