Worse, the film suffers from “Sequel Overload Syndrome.” There are no fewer than six fight scenes before the interval. By the time Shiva actually gets angry, you’ve already seen him punch through three buildings. The emotional beats—his relationship with his mortal mother, his guilt over past destruction—are rushed through in two-minute montages.
Vikram Surya looks the part. Chiseled, brooding, and physically commanding, he does his best with a script that asks him to do little more than glare and grunt. The “human” Shiva is barely present here. In the original, we saw him struggle with rent, with love, with mortality. Here, he’s a god from minute one—which ironically makes him less interesting. shiva super hero 2
You want to turn your brain off and see a demi-god demolish a CGI army for two hours. The 3D is great, and the fan service for mythology buffs is real. Worse, the film suffers from “Sequel Overload Syndrome