Really Surprised!

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

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Only Rajini Fans LOVE this CARTOON !!! (this is NOT 3D !! ) Anyone who calls this 3D GRAPHICS is BLIND AS A BAT or just plain liars !!Comeon guys please be honest and just say that this is a CARTOON !!!Even Deepika Padukone (Actress in this movie) is FURIOUS WITH RAJINI for making her FACE LOOK WEIRD in this movie. And so she has NOT SUPPORTED THIS MOVIE, after it was released (her face really looks weird!!!).Rajini's daughter thought that 3D GRAPHICS IS SO EASY !! Well its NOT. It took JAMES CAMEROON's AVATAR(2009) $US200++ MILLION to make a REALISTIC 3D ANIMATION, Because PERFECTION IS VERY EXPENSIVE. Rajini's daughter must have used some lousy/CHEAP GRAPHICS companies to make this... thats why it LOOKS LIKE SOME CHEAP CARTOON. This Kochaidaiyaan CARTOON looks like the quality of the USUAL MAHABARATA CARTOONS that India has been making for YEARS!!After ENTHIRAN, Rajini had some good name... but NOW KOCHADAIYAAN has made Rajini into a JOKE. My NON Indian friends are REALLY FUN OF THIS MOVIE. I'm really SAD FOR RAJINI.

The reason, the movie deserved for 8 rating are 1. Rajini has never taken any risk in his entire film career like this before. Acting in motion capture technology is big risk especially for person like Rajini as average fans all they wanted is to see his face in the big screen. He always taken easy path where Kamal has taken hard path to introduce something unknown to Indian movie industry. Hats of to you guys2. I have seen most of the movie taken by motion capture technology and the result is same as Kochadaiiyan. except few, most of the movie they have used unknown actors so you will hardly see a resemblance. people compare Avatar but none of the actors are known to common man and none of them are as equivalent to super star like status. to put it simply no one cares about their faces. 3. none of the Hollywood movies taken till today never shown dancing, jokes, or some style of a real life hero which is complicated and completely new for this movie. I am from film background and I can see it should have taken monumental effort to complete this moviesome negatives -------------- 1. Story is not very captivating. very average. 2. Main star cast selection is complete waste except Nagesh and Deepika 3. too many songs instead of all those songs, they could have concentrated on improving the quality further more

On the whole for the movie, I would only give 7/10, but I rated it 9/10 only because it was extremely thoughtful and bold to make a movie of this kind. A lot of the characters in the movie are wasted. More than a storyline as such, the movie is a celebration of the great Kochadaiyaan Ranadhiran and the principles he lived by and the legacy he left behind. I don't think anybody else could have handled this role to perfection, the way Rajnikant has handled it. Songs are decent, the special effects, the coverage of detail, the magnificence of the sets, the awesome music of ARR, the voice of SPB, and many more features makes the movie a MUST WATCH! Soundarya Ashwin has done an incredible job. Overall I would say, DO NOT MISS the movie! Yes there are quite a few technical flaws, but I think we should still appreciate the efforts. The dialogues as any Rajni movie are awesome. Was great to see the king of comedy Nagesh being included, I am sure a lot of work would have gone behind it. All is not rosy some critical thoughts: * Maybe they could have reduced the gory scenes couple of notches * Many characters have been wasted who possibly might be utilized in Rana i guess. * the movie lacked the usual Rajni humor * Maybe Jackie Shroff and Aadhi should have been replaced by Suman (who did a great job in Sivaji) or Prabhu and maybe Shaam/Jeeva/Jayam Ravi respectively. Both the former's expressions are not the best of features. When you are portraying a Pandyan King, you would want to use a Tamil star cast as your expressions are very important. Looking forward to Rana!

First time I saw someone walking out of Rajnikanth's movie. That too with a small kid. Usually, kids love Rajnikanth's movie but this one is an exception.Very bad graphics or animation. Thought I will get used to it as film progress, but before I could get used the move got over.Story line is also very very old and predictable. How long are the directors/writers going to depend on tried and trusted story line?If not for Rajnikanth, I doubt no distributor would have bought this movie. Even with Rajnikanth, I don't see it succeeding..None of the actors' facial reaction were captured due to poor animation. The only good part of the movie was the "Siva dance" by father.