In his previous films kolamaavu kokila and doctor director nelson mined humour out of situation that hardly would have come across as funny on paper.in beast too he takes a backdrop that is serious a hostage situation and tries to make it funny but this time he is far from successful in fact the film barely delivers the laughs in the places where it should have been funny and makes us break into a laugh whenever it tries to be a mass hero movie the film does begin promising ly get a prologue (Vijay) a senior RAW officer who was mentally injured after a mission to capture the most desire terrorist mastermind (Lillipat Falki) he leaves the organization organization and tries to get rid of his demons but then the mall where he is with his girlfriend Preethi (pooja hegde, whose main function is eye candy) is taken over by terrorist government negotiator altaf Hussain ( selvaragavan on the cheek tongue making his acting debut) managed to convince vera to take on the rescue Mission but can he succeeded the problem with the beast is that there is a hero who is too strong for a mission that never seems challenging terrorist liok little dangerous (though they try to scare hostage they rarely kill anyone) and mission don't seem like a daunting task for daredevil like veera none of the kidnappers have a personality include the leader saif (ankur ajit vikal)innumkonjam tough kuduthurukalan)veera tells sheif towards the end of the movie just emphasizing how weak the adversary is in the movie like dr.nelsongives the protagonist alot of weirdos to learn up to defeat terrorist but unlike the movie the character have enough screen time and motivation to be remembered here you rarely get it only VTV ganesh manage to laugh and the disgust between yogi Babu and redin Kingsley gets tried after awhile even the clumsy gang dup of the previous work mahari and kiri do not leave an impression this time vijay is doing something with other character here in stark contrast to the doctor who saw such character working together as a eam in battle scene (such as memorable scene in the metro) it mainly consists of providing jokes women in particular are completely left behind curiously nelson gives more screen time to some character that are frustration corea personal old lady (subbulakshmi) in hostage of mole and part of a rescue operation the union minister aniluda tries to punch the scenes with his score but by the time we reach the end even if the time we reach the end even if that doesn't work it ends up with a slimmer never meaning full or stronger sentence Nelson seems to have