Excellent, a Must See

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

This movie is hit only because of ass-licking fans of Rajnikanth. The script is completely illogic, poor and weak and lame, complete bullshit like Ra One. Veseegaran thinks his creation won't kill him because he created him. Lol. I didn't know veseegaran, a "scientist" had such a small brain. A robot won't hesitate to do anything because it cannot think. If I create a robot and it is asked to kill me, I won't be surprised, at all. Anyways, there are a lot of idiotic things in the movie like talking mosquitoes? Really? CGI and VFX is completely worn out. Anyone could tell the difference between real and CGI part. So many stupid and idiotic dialogues. Humour like bullshit. In nutshell, this movie is just a garbage with a poor script, acting, dialogues and logic. You have to be an infant to enjoy this movie. I would have given zero stars but unfortunately one is minimum.

Normally South Indian films are far-fetched and have heroes play same parts again and again, Rajnikant too after the crap Shivaji(2007) I didn't expect much but this film is a surprise. Technologically this is one of the best films. It does have some routine romantic scenes(afterall a tamil film) but yet the main story of Rajnikant making a clone of himself is terrific when the clone does a volte face it strikes you, there are several scenes well handled in the second half like Cheethi recognising the real Rajnikant, Danny's death and the climax which goes a bit overboard but superbly handledDirector Shankar does a terrific job Music is decentRajnikant handles both the roles perfectly, his make up is simply terrific hard to make out it's a 60+ person playing the part Aishwarya Rai is decent in her role Danny is good but his role is half baked, rest are okay

What is there to say, amongst these lyrical reviews by Indian fans of 'Superstar Rajinikanth'?Yes, it is an interesting movie. As is to be expected from a movie about robots from 'the East', where robots are becoming a familiar sight in peoples daily lives, while in the West robots for most people are still science fiction.And yes, the special effects are pretty cool, although they do look a little bit cheap here and there (try to watch them without sound and you will see what I mean). It's definitely the first time that I saw a swarm of humanoid robots, and director Shankar (who also wrote the screenplay) definitely gets the most out of this ingenious concept, both visually and conceptually.I fact, the idea and its elaboration are so cool, it's easy to forgive the filmmakers the a bit too simple story and rather flat characters. Girlfriend Sana is only beautiful (although rather extremely beautiful) and her only goal in life is to get the attention of her boyfriend. The helpers of the inventor are only (very) silly and start a big mess by falling in the trap of the bad guy and the bad guy is... well.. dressed in black and jealous and all that.That's OK. But what is UNFORGIVABLE, for Western eyes, is that the middle of the coolest action, everybody just starts dancing! Why would they do that? The kitsch Bollywood music videos that you find yourself suddenly watching are really silly, are totally unrelated to style of the rest of the movie, take the flow out of it and they are just WAY TOO LONG.And why are they situated all over the world? The story is situated exclusively in India, but all of a sudden you see the main characters dancing in Peru,of all places. Why? Did the director need an excuses for having a nice trip to some other continents? Or do Indian spectators don't mind this incongruity? Or, more interesting still, do they actually appreciate it?As reviewer Mahesh Kothamangalam on IMDb said: 'The songs are spectacular. Shankar shows the audience some of the best places in the world all for a few bucks.' Now, that's another way to look it! Maybe I should try to reevaluate my all too rational European expectations and judgment, but when people start dancing in an otherwise cool movie, I really have a hard time doing that. Hello cultural difference!So, if you don't like musicals (or just don't want them to be mixed up in your sf movie), skip the silly dancing and singing parts. You will see, this is actually a great movie. And if you want to know what the future of cinema is, don't skip the dancing parts. India with 1.2 billion people is one of the largest emerging economies. Bollywood probably really IS the new Hollywood.

Endhiran – ROBOT – ( A ) Robot is true entertainer, with wild action sequences and high quality graphics. The special effects of the movie are comparable to Hollywood movies. Rajnikanth is the man who made it so enjoyable with his performance. The difference of performances between engineer Rajnikanth and Robo before and after interval is spectacular. No one can imagine that it's the same person. Aishwarya Rai looked stunning in this movie; usually in commercial movies she doesn't look as stunning as to traditional movies. But this time in every frame and shot she leaves her beauty and performance mark. The director S.Shanker gave an amazing direction and A.R.Rahman's score is splendid as always. Overall, A complete package of fun, drama, action and entertainment.