Making a movie for Ajith and Vijay must feel like balancing on a tightrope while wearing nothing but your shoes, don’t you think? In Thunivu, his third collaboration with Ajith Kumar, H Vinoth manages to walk a narrow line between letting Ajith do what he does best and telling a compelling tale about corruption in the manner that he is renowned for. It mostly succeeds.
Ajith Kumar steals the show in Thunivu; he makes a big entrance, shakes his leg frequently, sends goons flying, and moonwalks through this cakewalk of a movie that doesn’t ask too much of him. He also performs a moonwalk in a moment. Ajith portrays Dark Devil, a lone mercenary who works for hire. Dark Devil, Kanmani, and their gang double-cross Radha (Veera) and his gang as they seize possession of a private bank in Chennai. They then make a deal with them. The Police Commissioner (Samuthirakani) assumes control of the situation outside the bank. A bank robbery tale with many twists and turns, letdowns, loads of gunfire, heroic victories, and redemptions starts.Naturally, this implies that, as in most commercial star vehicles, the hero is immediately given a storyline armour, and it is always crucial to justify your actions to a person you are going to kill. Fortunately, it’s simple to look beyond all of it since Vinoth’s script is, for the most part, risqué and taut. To keep you interested, he withholds information and sprinkles just enough surprises.
Thunivu has problems just after the intermission block; initially, Vinoth exploits masala cinema’s famous intermission section in a creative way, but the rest of the movie undervalues it. The only true trump card to play with is the mystery surrounding Ajith’s group and their purpose, and the screenplay begins flowing information as it should. We come to understand that they are a successful mercenary gang for hire with exceptional skills. However, the information provided about the gang’s past is unimpressive and leaves many issues unresolved. Ambiguity is not the problem; rather, the scenes here are disjointed and the information provided is unclear. For instance, all of a sudden we are expected to support two of the gang members based only on what their boss claims that the gang is “his family.”
