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Beast - Aviyal review

We watched Beast yesterday evening. Sadly we couldn't afford the morning tickets so we had to switch to the evening show. Since we saw all the completely negative reviews our expectations were set to 0. Here's our thoughts on Beast coming from a guy who watched with 0 expectation.

The story is pretty straight and simple. Veera Raghavan an Ex - RAW agent is stuck inside a mall which is hijacked by a group of terrorist and he plans to save the day. That's all. Nelson tells this story in his own way with some Vijay magic.

After the mall hijack the movie starts to fire up with both action sequences and comedy. Most of the jokes landed pretty well, some missed. Vijay' highlight scenes were a treat to watch with Anirudh's music. Vijay as usual did his job and steals the show. He doesn't shout that much like in the previous movies which was refreshing to watch. Nelson did a good job with Vijay's character. Other than Vijay, Sathish did a really good job in the movie. His scenes were a blast to watch. As a Nelson film it had too many characters, some good, some unnecessary. I think that almost covers all the positives in the movie.

For the negatives, Anirudh's music was not upto my expectations. After something like Master I had a really big expectation for the background score but it was meh. At parts it felt fine but mostly it was meh. After Doctor Nelson this is surely a downgrade movie. The writing was not as good as Doctor was. Even though Vijay's highlight scenes were good it felt really forced into the movie. The last 20 mins was just unnecessary.


Overall the movie is not great, but a pretty good one time watch. It is not as bad as all the reviews say. I would strongly recommend watching it once in theaters if you liked the Doctor movie. 

Beast an upgrade for Vijay and a downgrade for Nelson.

Hariesh (April 2022)


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