SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Tetrady not as good as all the hype

Tacticalin An absolute waste of money

Austin Benjamin This movie is for, those who are always compare Indian movies with Hollywood cinema. Even Hollywood movie makers can not made movie like this in this budget. Movie is well crafted from start to end. There is no lag in the movie. If you feel lagging then you are not watching movie with your full concentration. Some people claim, AO is the movie for genius movie watchers? definitely not. This movie tells story in a layman's language. If you are still confused then you are watching this movie for name sake. After 5 years I am writing this review in IMDb. Because this movie is worth to talk and write for another decade. Some people says directors like S.S.Rajamouli and Sankar are the two directors who raised the Indian movies to Hollywood standard. But I would say that is utterly false statement. People admired about Naan E and Sankar's so called worthless expenses as Hollywood standard. But real fact is, why we are giving much important to Hollywood movies is, that is because of the concept and beyond level of thinking they have it in their BRAIN. AO is the answer to that THINK BEYOND concept in Indian cinema. If you watch this movie without any distraction you will feel what I felt. The reason I am dragging Sankar and S.S.Rajamouli into this context is, these two directors are worshiped as demi god of making Hollywood standard movie in Indian Cinema. But the truth is Selvaragavan done that without making much noise by giving Aayirathil Oruvan to Indian cinema. So please stop making Sankar and S.S.Rajamouli as big directors in Indian, they are giving masala movies with mix of some gimmick technology.If someone ask me which movie you can select, if you compete with Hollywood movie, I would say without any second thought "Aayirathil Oruvan" is the movie which would challenge the Hollywood film makers.Atlast the bitter truth is, this movie is the one real unsung movie in Indian cinema history. My heartiest thanks to real Hollywood thinker and director Selvaraghavan.

rapc80 i am surprised to see such a fantastic movie in Indian cinema. although the graphics have not been that good at least they tried to be realistic. The plot is wonderful and have dealt with a very good screenplay. The songs in the movie are also good.Reemasen is gorgeous in the movie and andrea too. They looked hot in the song before the intervel. All the action sequences are not bad . The scene with the snakes is OK.But the thing i have not liked in this movie is the ending.everybody in the theatre comes out unsatisfied as the villains are the winners in the movie. If karthi had done something in the climax instead of fighting as he acquires some supernatural powers then i would have been more satisfied. i hope there will be a sequel to this movie which explains this. finally a good movie to watch.

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.

Ganny I went to this movie with lot of expectations but I was pretty much disappointed. There are so many goof ups in the movie and so many questions left unanswered or at least doesn't provide a clear explanation, like, has the king got magical powers for he is able to fight Reema by getting hold of her shadow, why do they run crazy when they reach the lost chola city, and Reema too seem to have got some magical powers for she is able to portray a tiger symbol at her back in a flash and is able to fight back the magical saint (or whomever is he) when people were trying to burn them, what exactly happens when Karthik is fighting the big guy in the fight-area organized by king for he cud see people around him as skeletons, at-times they are missing and suddenly our crying Karthik starts fighting like a legend etc etc. Also, there are few scenes in the movie that may seem illogical and unnecessary. Though, I feel, the story is very good, the graphic scenes are very poor. We could see the effects of few Hollywood movies with a poor attempt. The climax is rather disappointing with cholas fighting the army people. We understand the budget is very less, but some scenes could have been filmed in a better way, with the available budget. Some scenes like, Reema and Andrea holding Karthik to fight chillness in forest makes audience enjoy the movie for a short period, until they get puzzled why would something like that happen on another scene or get disappointed by poor graphic scenes.On the whole, I would say this is a very good attempt by the director, and could be a new beginning for Tamil cinema. I feel, a movie of this kind, that has a really good story should be filmed in high budget, rather than filming in a poor budget making the film prone to poor comments and a relatively bad cinematic experience. I would still give this movie a rating 8, for the very good attempt by the director.