Jailer 1 and 2 are undeniably bangers!

1 is still better as a movie for me than 2 but I still enjoyed 2 to its core. I'm a hardcore Thalaivar fan from Kerala.

Jailer 1 was close to being the best fanservice movie too. It's still up there as one of my favourite fanservice movies for Rajinikanth. Anirudh killed it there too. The movie had a proper storyline and EVERYTHING.

But something somewhere always makes me feel like they're still a 0.5 stars below Petta.

Petta just felt so organic. Idk how to explain. It didn't feel like it was "intentionally made for the fans to adore Thalaivar". None of the celebration moments in the movie felt forced. The story had proper twists and turns.

We celebrated Rajinikanth AND the character Petta Velan in the movie.

I think that's where Jailer 1 and 2 fell short. We celebrate Rajinikanth and only Rajinikanth in it. Not Tiger Muthuvel Pandian.

Karthik Subbaraj just set the bar a bit too high man.... He just OWNED Rajini and told everyone "look at how I'm gonna present my goat. Learn from me."

Jailer 2 didn't even have a proper storyline that was interesting to follow up. I just gave up focusing on the story because it was obvious that it was made to celebrate Thalaivar. And I had a BLAST doing it too in the theatre.

Paying little to no attention to the story and the movie was still fun to watch. Credits where it's due. So it was more of a theatrical experience than a movie.

But Petta was just.....different.

It was a movie first- and then later an experience.

The grand music....especially the church fight theme STILL gives me chills. I can rewatch Petta all day everyday and STILL not get bored. I know the entire movie by heart and you will STILL see me rewatching it whenever I'm bored.

The colours, the cinematography, the way they made a 68 y/o man fight without making stunt doubles obvious to our eyes, the dialogues, the MUSIC.....EVERYTHING. PEAK.

The ONLY segment where Jailer stood taller than Petta was the second act. Petta slowed down a bit nearing the climax. But it was still worth an experience.

I don't think we're getting a properly made fanservice movie like Petta anytime soon.

All hail Karthik Subbaraj 🫡

These were peak turtle times , butcher coded :)

So nelson has had a good filmography starting from kolamavu kokula , doctor , jailer 1 and jailer 2 . But i wonder why beast because the mole in nelson filmography it had his regular comedy team . The mall portions were too much but movie was still decent but that ending scene . What on earth was that . So what exactly went wrong with this film behind the scenes. I am curious regarding this cause Nelson's other 4 films are good ..

Victims of STR:

Nelson DilipKumar

Adhik Ravichandran

Desingh Periyasammy(Aandavar wasted his time as a producer)

Ramkumar Balakrishnan(Moved to SK project)

Aswath Marimuthu(Moved to Dharman)

Victims of Aandavar:

Mysskin(Period film about Buddha relic)

Selvaraghavan(Vishwaroopam)

H Vinoth

Anbariv Masters

SU Arunkumar(Current victim)

There was this constant negativity surrounding big budget/star films, the uncertainty over sequels, particular marketing strategy and less hype for this film before the release. But then, I saw the second show at Bangalore and was stumped by how good the first half was but barely did I expect such a unanimous positive response.

I remember the pre-release days for Jailer and I wanted the movie to do good JUS FOR HIM. But the reception Jailer 2 is getting is just stupendous and surreal. ♥️🌟

KOLLYWOOD REALLY IS HEALING AND I CAN'T WAIT FOR SCENE AND OM TO CARRY ON THIS FORM. 🤞🏽

One thing to be a fan of an actor. But to incite communal clashes is taking it too far.

(Note: this is not a Jailer 2 spoiler)

As there is a possibility of Jailer 3 and if it happens the possible plot is where MVP realized that the stakes of gold smuggling doesn't end with India and there are bigger evils and that extends the influence across the world. Hence, MVP decides to extend his influence across the world with two of his popular periya kais from the world helping him. And with all of his mega network, MVP defeats the bigger evils and then bgm plays, alappara kelappurom, thalaivaru nerandharam

apart from the explosion scenes, I liked how the first half of jailer 2 is all connected to one and another and it's just character enhancement and grounded logic screenplay. that really made even the simplest elevation look huge (interval)

I'm not saying they're 'perfect' films ( except vikram , that was a banger ) but they are definitely good films and you could see the grandness on screen . yes you could complain about certain stuff ' like this did not work well etc etc . ' and those are valid complaints but i want these movies to be considered the minimum threshold of what we should get in terms of star studded movies . vikram was 'perfect' , the action , story , screenplay everything was perfect , sure it had some tiny incoveniences but you can clearly look past it . Leo was great in terms of scale and quality and a very good first half . not your standard masala movie , yea the 2nd half watered down everything but they experimented with some stuff like bike chase scene etc . but a good effort nonetheless . jailer and jailer 2 really used thalaivar's aura well , its a big task to handle hero elevation but nelson handled it very well . and his signature dark comedy also works well . yes both the movies used cameos excessively but nelson knew how to handle it well . i hope we now experiment with different genres with big stars and not just the same crime- action movies .

I thought Jailer was a great theatrical experience and was still pretty enjoyable but I never got back to fully finishing a rewatch, I just skip through certain portions. Jailer 2 first half was an absolute laugh riot with mass scenes sprinkled on throughout it. The second half had its weaknesses but didn’t deviate way too much off the plot with a whole blast Mohan plotline. Both movies tend to die down in middle parts of the 2nd half but in Jailer it felt like that due to that extended Blast Mohan gag. Here it was more is the villains not being as intimidating but I enjoyed the SJ Suryah confrontation scene and Rajni vulnerability in that sequence, and the movie really scaled up. Nonetheless 2 pretty enjoyable theatrical films, just enjoyed Jailer 2 more.