Jailer 2 Movie Review: What’s Good, What’s Bad In Rajinikanth’s Film?

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oi-Prakash KL

Updated: Thursday, October 15, 2026, 7:44 [IST]

Following the success of Jailer, Rajinikanth has teamed up with Sun Pictures and Nelson Dilipkumar for its sequel. The much-awaited flick has hit the screens on Thursday.

SJ Suryah, Mithun Chakraborty, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Ramya Krishnan, Vidya Balan, Yogi Babu, Mimaa, Kottayam Nazeer and many others are part of the cast in Jailer 2. More importantly, Mohanlal, Shivaraj Kumar, Hrithik Roshan, Jackie Shroff, and Vijay Sethupathi will be seen in cameos.

The Tamil movie has Anirudh Ravichander’s music, Vijay Kartik Kannan’s cinematography and R. Nirmal’s editing.

Seeking a peaceful retirement, Tiger Muthuvel Pandian (Rajinikanth) must resurrect his brutal skills when a far-reaching international syndicate targets his family in Jailer 2.

The movie has generated a lot of buzz with its promos and trailer. Also the success the first instalment has made the audience pin high hopes on the flick. Will it live up to the viewers’ expectations? Find out from the viewers’ words:

Venky Reviews: #Jailer2 Solid Commercial 1st Half!

Follows a familiar template and starts a bit slow, but once the setup is established, Nelson’s trademark comedy works well along with a few solid Superstar elevation scenes backed by Anirudh’s BGM. Continues right where Part 1 ends and stays entertaining so far.

AllAboutMovies: #Jailer2 Awesome 1st half. The dark humor has worked big time. #YogiBabu comedy is peak. #Rajinikanth is on 🔥. #Anirudh BGM is so good. And the interval and the staging is perfect. Not even one boring scene. Fast screenplay. Looking forward to 2nd half 👌

Christopher Kanagaraj: #Jailer2 – First Half 🔥

Superstar Title Card, Nelson’s Witty Comedies throughout, Mass Bridge Seq & Tea Stall Scene, Interval Block… 💥👌

Highly Engaging. Nelsoooo Veramaari….Hukum🤝

Achilles: #Jailer2 If Innocent acting is an art, bro
@rajinikanth
is the Picasso of it 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🙏

Out of Nowhere Theater Explodes 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 All Thanks to Murthy 😀🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

#Jailer2Review

The Telugu Daily: #Jailer2 One hour into the movie, and SUPERSTAR steals the Show. A complete ONE MAN SHOW!

The comedy lands well, and Nelson keeps things engaging throughout.

So far, enjoying this more than #Jailer.

Telugu360: #Jailer2

In the second half, Nelson has scaled uo the intensity of the plot. The villain plot has been set to Goa.

SJ Surya, Mithun, and Vidya Balan play the rogue family.

This is somewhat uncharted territory for Nelson. He might be shaky here. We need to watch how he can engage the audience in the second half.

The first half was good. You can read our first half report here 👇

Hrithik Roshan getup, action scenes are peaks #Jailer2

𝕏 Akki^TM 🚩: .#Jailer2 inside info..

Same Part 1 template, Forced Sequel.
“Better than #Coolie”

Drama Lovers might feel
First half>

Cameos are not much affective as part1.

Anirudh BGM👍🏻(fire emoji pette antha lev Ani routine)

Keep your expectations low.

October 16th kaluddam

Laxmi Kanth: #JAILER2 – My Expectations..🎥🍿:

– Just like Part 1, Some Solid Theatre Moments of Superstar #Rajinikanth with good Elevations..🤝💥
– #Nelson’s signature style Dark Comedy that blends well to the story’s Flow..✌️
– #Anirudh’s Score and Good amount of usage of Hukum..⭐
– From the Promo Materials, We can see that the First Half is gonna be Grounded like Part 1.. And Thalaivar is gonna Underplay as a Driver and uses Namo Narayana and Yogi babu to get close to the Villain’s Gang..🤝
– Expecting a Massy Flashback portion like part 1..🔥 Also, hoping for a solid family conflict that gives enough weightage to Muthuvel Pandian’s son’s death..
– Expecting a good Setup for the Cameo entries and their assistance for Thalaivar in story’s flow..🤝
– A Good Cat and Mouse game Screenplay in the Second Half between Thalaivar and Kalpaks..🤝
– If all the above elements work well, the Part 1 Magic will repeat again at the Box Office in a much bigger way..💥Expecting a Tharamana Sambavam from #Nelson..🙏