Positives:
1. VIJAY: Thalapathy Vijay's screen presence is as usual enjoyable in this movie. Both in comedy and emotional scenes, Vijay sir scored well. Thalapathy Vijay still looks young today.
2. SONGS AND DANCE: Thaman's songs worked well in this movie. Vijay sir's dance really explains how dedicated he is towards the making.
3. ONE OR TWO EMOTIONAL MOMENTS: Luckily, emotional scenes didn't feel irritating and it will satisfy the family audience.
4. NOT FELT BORED: This movie surely will hold you for its entire runtime of around 2 hrs and 50 mins without feeling bored despite its emotional and family moments.
5. COMIC TIMING OF VIJAY AND YOGI BABU: Generally, I'm not much of a fan of Yogi Babu and I felt most of his jokes cringe. But surprisingly Yogi Babu mocking Thalapathy and vice Versa worked well.
6. ACTION BLOCKS: Ignoring the logic, the action blocks really worked well and are enjoyable.
7. SJ SURYA'S CAMEO: SJ SURYA'S cameo (which I can't reveal much) worked well and it's enjoyable.
NEGATIVES:
1. LAZY WRITING: This movie falls flat in the writing point. There is no new scene in the movie. We have seen all the scenes in some movies. The scenes are either inspired or copied from old movies.
2. WEAK SCREENPLAY: Ofcourse, we shouldn't expect anything in the family movies. But all the scenes are extremely predictable. Sometimes even dialogues are predictable.
3. LACK OF EMOTIONAL CONNECT IN MANY SCENES: Since this movie explicitly deals with the problems involved in rich family, many scenes cannot be connected emotionally by the general audience and weak direction is also another reason why we cannot connect some emotional scenes.
4. WEAK CHARACTERIZATION: Except Vijay, Sarath Kumar and Jaya Sudha's character, no character was written properly. Prakash Raj's role as a villain was completely wasted.
5. EDITING AND CG: Some scenes are easily identifiable that they were taken by using green mat. Could have concentrated well on this part. But making and set design were good.
6. SOME ARTIFICIALLY ADDED MOMENTS: Emotional scenes involving Srikanth, his wife and his daughter just felt like a scene made to change Srikanth as a good person. But dialogue (Dealing with lack of affection towards the kid) in that scenes worked well.
7. ONLY UPS AND NO DOWNS: Vijay is dealing all the problems easily and so there is no thrill in watching any of it, as we know that he will deal all the problems easily.
Overall, this film works well for a family audience and may or may not work for general audience. Watch it without keeping any expectations and it might work.
My rating: 6/10.
