Kanguva is strictly for suriya's performance only. This movie can not be described much as there is little to anything good. Nothing works in this movie, there are so many doubts wandering lets see like what is the significance of Gold coins during 10th century that too for people living on islands far away from min lands, what is it used for? Mainly them being the tribal outcasts. Questions like these with illogical fight sequences and a very poor reincarnation story line which all was expected from Director Siva. And with a lot of shouting resulting in a lot of dialogues not even being heard properly its as if the actors are chewing gum and the dialogues were just added. DSP should probably look at his record and try back to get his image of being a solid music director. His BGM is high apart from Thalaivane everything is very loud and repetitive music. And leave alone Suriya no one is needed or worth watchy. Heroine is a joke and the real jokers are cringe. Nothing worked in the first 20 - 30 mins. The whole movie never had a lip sync to any actor. Tamil is a very good language even to hear but when u decided to go ancient tamil then please make sure to make it a bit clearer to hear rather than shouting.
What works?
Suriya, BGM and next level visuals. Be it the huge landscapes or the water sequences it doesnt feel like the movie was made in sets but more like a real location itself. Its that good, even in each and every scene u will c 200-300 people in a single scene very well handled. And suriya is just menacing in his role, he just wants to tear away anything that comes his way, he is ruthless and humble so good role for him. Makeover to each and every actor is preety good. Bobby deol was good.
Finally Sirutai SIva has not changed much he still is stuck with the same Emotional touch and sentiment mode. He is just wasting everything he is getting, he had budget, he had actors, he had great technicians, even the fans were going to supporting SIva if this was delivered properly but he failed in all of these expect the thing he thought is by putting in Karthi as the main Antogonist and giving a Part - 2 anticipation would make all things right is a big mistake. He is just not following and keeping up with the trends i guess which is why is also going the same way as many directors are heading/have headed towards. So please if u get any other opportunities please use them wisely.
4/10