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After the disappointment of the most anticipated leo thalapathy vijay is back with the Greatest of all time aka G. O. A. T an action thriller film written and directed by venkat prabhu who had previously directed custody which was also a dissappointing one the storyline of the goat is very routine and ordinary to say simply it revolves around gandhi and his teammates ( sunil, kalyan, Ajay ) who are the members of the special anti- terriost squad (SATS )headed by nazeer undergoes a mission in keneya years ago which makes serious issues in their personal years after years how gandhi and his teammtes faces and solves the issues form the rest of the story talking about the postives the first major postive is none other than thalapathy vijay his performance as both Gandhi and jeevan ( father and son ) was brilliant and especially during emotional sequences his performance was top notch and rather than performances he also scores in his usual areas such as action, dance homour etc he is the main pillar of the film other actors such as prashanth, prabhudeva, sneha, ajmal ameer, jayaram, laila, mohan, meenkshi choudary, yogi babu and venkat prabhu's usual artists have done their roles effectively no complaints but some of their characters are not properly written the next positive is the some of the homour sequences involving vijay and sneha, vijay and his teammates and vijay and yogi babu were worked well especially yogi babu's some of the comedies were hilarious the total first half barring the interval point was interesting with no drag moments and it is also a notable postive the next positive is the perfect de aging technic used for vijay's jeevan character prior release the de aging was heavily criticized but in the film it was convincing which had highly saved the film the screenplay by venkat prabhu was crisp and taut in some parts ( pre interval and climax sequences )which is also a postive but also screenplay was highly predictable during some of the scenes the twists and turns in the movie also worked in some parts and it was also predictable in many scenes the easter eggs and the surprising cameos were interesting and entertaining but did not jell with the storyline and also not created a strong impact the background score by yuvanshankar raja was not great but still it was not worst too it was a good one and elevated some of the average scenes to some extent which is also a big positive the jeevan character was written in an effective way and becomes a memorable one than that of the Gandhi 's character the climax sequences was also very good and writing by venkat prabhu was very good on some parts of the movie which is also a positive thing coming to the negatives of the film the first main negative was it's very routine ordinary and generic storyline the story highly resembled vijayakanth 's film rajadurai which was directed by vijay's father sa chandrasekar and Also some of the old commercial tamil films the screenplay as mentioned above was good in some parts but in major parts it fumbles and becomes highly predictable and the twist and turns also become highly prediticable especially in interval and post interval scenes because of weak writing also the characters other than vijay are weakly written especially female characters were highly pathetic and antangoinst role by mohan were highly underwhelming even through mohan's performance was good also the deaging for the character jeevan was good but it also become worst in the post interval scenes where jeevan character was shown much more younger also the other vfx and graphics was also very creepy and looked highly artificial the songs and the placement of them were highly tertible and highly affected the flow of the film especially the song placements of spark and matta were the major drawbacks also the most shocking disappointment was the technical side 's inefficiency cinemotagraphy by siddharata nuni who had done great camera work in vendu thanithathu kadu and capital miller was highly erratic especially in the bangtok sequences and editing was also very narrow and uneven and most surprisingly the action sequences by dhilip subbarayan who had done a brillant work in valimai was highly underwhelming in this movie except the terrific bike chase featuring both vijays in Russia all the other action sequences were not convincing and illogical especially the intro train fight metro fight and even climax too and the tribute they gaven to the late captain vijayakanth in AI was highly shoddy and they would have even avoided this rather than giving a legend a lathergic tribute like this and also Easter eggs which was entertaining beccomes irritating when it becomes over dosage to conclude goat is not the greatest of all time in both vijay and venkat prabhu's career but still it is good despite major flaws effective writing and high technical brillance would have made the film to justify its title overall a partially entertaining commercial potboiler far better than vijay and venkat prabhu's previous outings which will be a delightful watch for his fans and a decent watch for others worth one time watchable in theatre postives : thalapathy vijay's screenpresence and performance, homour portions, jeevan's character arch and de aging technology, first half, pre interval portions, climax and some interesting twists, yuvanshankar raja 's background score, easter eggs and some surprising cameos
Negatives : routine and ordinary storyline, predictable screenplay in some parts,yuvanshankar raja's songs and its placement, underwhelming technical work, illogical action sequences, weak character writing ( except thalapathy vijay ) and creepy vfx works.
After delivering a great horror thriller demonte colony and a great crime thriller imakka nodigal ajay gnamuthu is back with his next a pshychological action thriller cobra starring chiyan vikram sir as a lead and music by isai puyal ARR cobra is a film about madhi who is a talented mathematician who successful commits crime using his mathematical talent and by wearing multiple getups chiyan vikram sir delievers a brilliant and a great performance as usual the other characters such as srinithi shetty, miranalini ravi, robo shankar,ks ravikumar,irfan pathan, meenakshi govindarajan, roshan andrews all are performed very well but there characters are not written properly the music by ARR is quite great both in background score and songs he is one of the great pillairs of this film. Cinemotagraphy done by the debutant harrish kannan was fanatastic and rich the stunt cherography by dhilip subbarayan is also an main highlight of this film each and every stunt sequences were great and amazing the promblem of cobra is its writing and the duration the writing is not bad or weak but it is very confusing and complex at the same time the screenplay was highly lagging mainly in second half the next most weakness is that its duration the film runs for nearly 3 hours which tests the patience of the audience the other characters except chiyan vikram sir was not properly written especially the rishi the villain character ARR's allowed songs were great but placement of the songs were the great minus the romantic portion between chiyan and miranalini may help the story for a core but the romantic portion between chiyan and srinithi is a extra feeting for the film the first half of the film was really good and racy especially the interval twist was really great and unpredictable but the second half was very slow and lagging in the whole second half the introgation scene was the only great scene where chiyan's acting was top notch the climax of the film was disappointing to the core overall cobra is not bad but at the same time not great too watchable one time
Postives :- chiyan's performance, ARR's music, harrish kannan cinemotagraphy, dhilip subbarayan stunt sequences, first half, interval twist and the introgation scene
Negatives :- confused and complex writing, lagging screenplay, weakly written characters ( except chiyan ), duration, second half, unwanted romance portions, placement of songs and a disappointing climax.