Beast
Director: Nelson Dilipkumar
Year: 2022
Duration: 155 minutes
Music: NA
Rating: 4.0
It seems Tamil
film has its Die Hard movies as well. I am totally unfamiliar with the Tamil
film industry and in truth didn't even realize that it was until I noticed
that the Hindi being spoken didn't match the mouth movement. Dubbing Indian
films into different Indian dialects is a common practice. Not done very
well with this one as often there is spoken dialogue and no one on screen
is talking. Distracting once you notice it, but the least of the problems
with this film. It isn't so much Die Hard as Die Long. It takes the hero
ages to kill all the terrorists. Moses crossed the Red Sea faster. It is
an action comedy in theory, but the comedy is in the wrong movie and the
action is over the top exaggerated as Indian films tend to be. He isn't a
superhero and should not be able to leap tall buildings.
It never makes much sense. One minute the
RAW intelligence agent Veera is buying balloons for a cute little girl out
in the countryside. He gets a call from HQ and rushes off on his motorcycle
to kill about 30 Islamic terrorists as easy as baking a pie. It seems that
all these terrorists skipped the shooting classes. Then he takes a bazooka
to blow up a truck. Tragedy! The balloon girl is killed. Oh my God!
Did she use the balloons to fly there? Veera is so upset that he quits RAW
and starts seeing a psychiatrist. Which is good. He is a psycho though I
am not sure the audience is supposed to think so.
Months later he gets a job as security in
a mall. And wouldn't you know it, on his very first day Pakistani terrorists
take it over. A mall. They picked the wrong one. There are countless terrorists.
The more he kills, the more there are. Like amoebas. These ones can't shoot
straight either. At one point he finds out the son of one of the terrorists
is having an operation and he calls the boy to talk to his father. There
are a bunch of side characters providing comedy relief. Having your toes
stepped on is funnier. Veera is played by Vijay. Just the one name. He is
one of the biggest stars in Tamil cinema. Not that I could tell why by this
film. There are two dance numbers. Not the terrorists thankfully. At a wedding
and at the end and I can say that Vijay's popularity is not because of his
dancing. He dances like a chicken being electrocuted.
