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Lightdeossk Captivating movie !

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

PD i just don't understand how people gave this movie >5 rating.one of the worst graphical movie, even worse CGI than Dasavatharam.Selvaraghavan has made yet another crap movie. he has tried to depict Reema sen as Lara croft,but it still doesn't impress.bullet fire,snake storming, pit falls etc...nothing sounds original. a freak show right before the interval a bloody fight with the some natives - yuck unwatchable.have u watched Apocalypto Mr Selvaraghavan..?why was the abusive fight between Reema sen and Andrea made..?@ Director Selvaraghavan - Plz watch lot more of Hollywood movies before creating a rip off.Treasure hunt movies which came decades earlier are better than Ur silly movie.a long hunt for some Chola king,The military assisting the group gets supply from helicopters, but doesn't hitch-hike on one.a several century old Chola dynasty right under the open skies, undetected till now in the modern age of satellite technologies.what are u trying to show us Selvaraghavan...? i couldn't watch anything beyond the 1st half.please don't do the 2nd version of the movie.please save the viewers...Final review. - 1/10. u ll love the movie if u have never watched a Hollywood movie before.i have to appreciate the effort of the 150+ persons who rated the movie above 5.

Persephone Demeter I am reminded of 'Jeans', which had a very young Aiswarya Rai, Prashanth, Nasar and Lakshmi as cast, AR Rahman for music, US as location and a relatively huge sum of money for a budget, all of which were painfully wasted by Director Shankar. There was an unnecessary drama, an emotionally intolerable and ugly flashback (with the mistaken notion that Gentleman's success was partly due to the flashback scene) and an absurd twist in the plot which together messed up the movie. Otherwise a lovely movie, the plot was in parts ugly and messy and it was a wasted opportunity for Shankar who could have turned Jeans into an exceptionally pleasant movie.Selvarathnam's plot in Aayirathil Oruvan is a hotchpotch of themes and scenes stolen, not from one movie, but from several, not only from Hollywood movies, but also from Tamil movies. I could see traces of some biological horror movies and even Saving Private Ryan (in the scene where the entire group lands in the island) and I could see a pathetic and miserably failed attempt to make an Indiana Jones or King Solomon's Mines kind of adventure. There is an obvious attempt to make a cheap copy of some scenes from Titanic, Apocalypto, Mummy, Laura Croft and Gladiator.The result is an obscenely inconsistent plot that made an absurd movie.After all this, Selvarathinam dares to blame his critics for their double standards of not criticizing James Cameroon's Avatar for the imagination and fantasy in its plot. Selvarathinam should thank his stars if he is even admitted to a theater showing Avatar, let alone compare ! his so called movie to James Cameroon's Avatar.India has the necessary talent to match Hollywood standards, but the Film Industry unfortunately sticks to the likes of Selvarathinam.

drkvrag Where to start.... Its an amazing film from start to finish.. One of the best in tamil cinema.. It is first of its genre (fantasy/adventure) in tamil cineworld and the director should be appreciated for this bold attempt.. the story is simple and for this genre it should be like that... the cast is superb and their performance is adequate.. The first half is fastly paced... and in second half, the director put in lot of twists and try to justify it and in the process the pace drops down.. But the imagination is praise worthy and looks believable... There are lot of things to be appreciated in this film.. Screenplay, bgm, cast, twists, action scenes etc... Special effects are fairly done considering the budget... It is worth to mention that gore factor, sometimes, reaches beyond limit and thus will not be suitable for young children... On the whole, the film is a treat to watch and should be appreciated for the team's hard work...

Gautham Manoharan Selvaragavan has made a bold attempt in making an historic movie without the usual clichés of Tamil cinemas. I also want to mention that this movie is a complete fantasy and no records suggests the authenticity of the facts mentioned in the movie. As i've established the movie is a pure fantasy there are places in the movie where you are bound to see various clippings from Hollywood movies like the war scene where the tactics were taken from last samurai and also the famous gladiator scene.But apart from that the movie's first half has some awesome visuals and settings which is a revolution in Tamil cinema. The first half of the film while make you sit on your edge and also it is made in an adventure type. But the second half of the movie was ridiculous, first of all showing the Tamil people as cannibals was not good and also there were some silly magic present in the second half. If Selvaragavan would have concentrated more on the cinematography rather than the visual settings the movie would have been a perfect one. There were lots of plot holes in the second half, and as the movie progresses you get irritated in Reema Sen's role and also the director pathetically copy the Lara Croft, yes, thats true. Andrea's character has no real importance and it was totally eliminated at the end. Some scenes were really unbelievable and not in a good way, the scene were Reema Sen's blood poisons the soldiers made me laugh.The most foolish character was the leader of the mercenary team. The Indian army or the mercenaries were just crawling at the end war scene. Apparently the director didn't think about the amount of opposition in just moving a single gun. would sanction the massacre of all those people at the climax war. The guy was not even holding his gun correctly and made a very foolish attempt at the scene were he was wearing a traditional Pandian dress and giving orders. Also I didn't think professional soldiers would behave in that way at the end and this proves that the guys were mercenaries and not the Army. In reality no government would allow the recruitment of mercenary and it is done only as a last resort, but i'm going to let go of this logic as majority of the audience would not notice it.Karthi made a memorable performance at the beginning of the movie but his character was also reduced at the end. Also I think the director had so much confidence in himself, he believed that the movie would be a success and a sequel would be taken later. I'm hoping the sequel would be much better than this.