Movie length was about 3 hours, and if they had removed the scenes where Rajini walks stylishly with BGM alone, you could have saved 40 minutes. And then, if you cut short of his fight scenes, you probably could have saved another 20 minutes.
But I understand that since it's a Rajini movie, you need those "mass" scenes to hype the crowd
The story's relevance is extremely high, especially for people from India. So the movie could work at the box office based on that logic alone.
Overall, it's a 1x time watchable movie, as up to a certain extent you get tired to see Rajini walking left and right, repeating the same 1-liner 6,4527x, while the BGM plays in the background.
And then when I thought the climax is about to come they bored me with a backstory for the villain which tested my patience 10X
Final verdict: Not bad, but not great either. The long Dussara holidays could help push some numbers and could touch GOAT's performance but certainly won't beat Jailer's numbers unless a miracle happens