Kalagathalaivan (A)
18/Nov/2022 Action, Thriller 2hrs 22mins

2.50

An Unexciting Thriller!

Wastes a lot of time in the screenplay for romantic portions, re-establishing the villain again and again that too in the same style. A potentially intact script that fails to have a tight storytelling.(more)

Source: Ashwin Ram, MovieCrow

3.00

An intelligently crafted action thriller

And in the few instances that we see the protagonist's smartness slip up, like in a crucial moment when Thiru establishes a connection when he knows that Arjun is hunting him down by finding out any link that leads to him, we start feeling as if it's the writer who has lost his plot. This is felt ev...(more)

Source: Suganth, Times Of India

2.75

Kalaga Thalaivan is worth your time, for the well written thriller portions and action scenes.

Kalaga Thalaivan is a good film without a doubt but could have been written better. If the romantic portion was blended more organically and had the film ended a few minutes before it actually did, it could have been even better. But the complaints aren't that big for this cat and mouse thriller. Ca...(more)

Source: Behindwoods, Behindwoods.com

2.50

A passive Udhayanidhi Stalin in Magizh Thirumeni's generic thriller

, Kalaga Thalaivan comes alive when the film takes the Thadam route with a half-effective twist during the midpoint. Again, it�s clever on Magizh�s part to lead the audience to think in one direction. But again, we have already seen this in Thadam. What is most disappointing is that the film expl...(more)

Source: Srivatsan, The Hindu

2.50

Magizh Thirumeni spoils his few good ideas by spoon-feeding them

As far as the rest of the film goes, it shuffles between sequences of torture porn and a sheepish romance between Thiru and Mythili (Nidhhi Agerwal). On one end, Arjun keeps coming up with creative methods of torture to make his suspects spill the beans. On the other hand, you get some uncreative co...(more)

Source: Kirubhakar Purushothaman , Indian Express