Bigil

First watch: Watching it FDFS and the first hour of the movie got so boring that I concentrated only on eating the snacks, especially the romance part was an utter waste, then after Rayappan's entry, Vijay's performance made us not to even blink our eye, it was an awesome performance. There were about tens of messages unrelated to the content as it was a sports-based movie and the gameplay was very much poor that it looked nearly like a video game and not like a stadium match. The introduction was fantastic, Vijay's performance was top-notch but overall on a macroscopic level, it was not a satisfying movie.

Second watch: As I knew that the romance portions were not worth watching, I simply ignored it and only by this time, I did realize that only until Rayappan's entry the movie was bad and after that it went really well and the fact that I didn't get bored during the 2nd watch itself is a good one for any movie.

It is third time lucky for us, the viewers, in case of this Vijay-Atlee combo.

Director Atlee presents a decent entertainer which mines the charisma of the star to a large extent.

Bigil also benefits from the fact that the entire movie and the semblance of a story is not entirely buried under the build-up for the star.

In Bigil, Atlee places his star Vijay shining bright at the center of the universe with the plot itself and the subplots merrily orbiting him as minor satellites.

Rahman delivers a rousing anthem and a good score. There is nothing - including the music or performances - that could be counted as superlative in any sense. Still, the entire movie works and doesn't feel like a tedium despite having a runtime of almost three hours.

The fact that this movie remains largely coherent on a whole does not make you cringe despite its runtime is no minor blessing.

Bigil

Vijay shines as Rayappan and Michael. There is no flaw in his acting. Nayanthara's Angel Character was a burden to the film. It slowed down the first half. Vivek could have been used for more scenes.

Instead of Angel and the love scenes, Bigil's love towards football or Rayappan's love towards Bigil could have been showed more.

First half - 2/5 (2 only for Rayappan) Second half - 5/5 Total - 7/10

The film starts with an introduction of Michael followed by Verithanam song which is picturised beautifully. The romance portions were boring. The football matches were interesting but suffered from poor vfx. Next, coming to the Rayappan character, it was bit forced but still was the only redeeming factor of the first half. Only the entry of Rayappan was interesting for me, but it was ruined in the trailer. The first half ends with an interesting Interval block and the real story begins only in the second half. The fight scenes in the second half were also not much interesting but emotions covers the flaws to the large extent. The portions where he learns about the antagonist and the subsequent mass scene was fantastic. The police station scene was illogical but good. The episodes of married woman and acid attack victim were touching. The scene where Vijay scolds all the girls was funny and a special mention to the emotional climax. Cinematography was bliss and A.R Rahman's songs were great but the Verithanam bgm was awful. Cgi could have been better and editing could have been better in the first half. Villain character is again weak. A masala movie from Atlee-Vijay combo which can be definitely watched more than one time.

Really hard to say the how much intensively emotions hard to me. The concept that purely succeeded the direction "entertainment". Considering that it's surely a guaranteed flick to start to the intermission, after the turns are gone to some serious incidents but the factor "entertainment" keeps well and to fixed the film tuned a mega visual amaze with the extraordinary star Thalapathy Vijay. Surely you can watch it for Thalapathy Vijay and grand direction of atlee. It's usual but something are really workout because the fair presentation.