Most film sequels become dampeners, letting the audience long for the sparkling first shot. Prithviraj Sukumaran's Lucifer was both a comprehensive and captivating political show with the inspiring prison song "Sahaakkale"and the sequence of events most vibrantly narrated. L2 Empuraan keeps shifting the action spots to different landscapes both in India and abroad, clicking events in politics, religion and the drug cartel. The first fifteen minutes of the film with Hindi dialogues and Malayalam subtitles, would have unnerved a section of the audience, who are unfamiliar with both Hindi and Malayalam.English could have been a better alternative subtitle for those dialogues. Almost all the actors in their respective roles reappear here, excluding those who were killed in Lucifer. The noticeable new additions are Kishore,Suraj Venjaaramoodu and Abhimanyu Singh and those who appear in the foreign soils.
The negative transformation in the mind frame of Chief Minister Jathin Ramdas {Tovino Thomas} seems to be lacking a solid base for a sudden change in his political perceptions. The catchiest scenes elegantly pictured are those wherein Priyadharshani Ramdas {Manju Warrier} appears first to talk about women empowerment, then to address the Nedumpally people and finally to declare herself as the true heir of P.K Ramdas, ready to take the mantle of the party chief of I.U.F. Similarly, Deepak Dev's music goes compact with the narration, fairly maintaining the aesthetic components of L2.
The cinematic voyage of Prithviraj as director of the film, is really exuberant with some of the action sequences moving on in breakneck speed, on a Hollywood pattern. The inclusive portion of religious conflicts threatening the nation and posing prospective threats to a state that proclaims itself as God's own country, is a subtle addition capable of reflecting the changing political scenario fanning religious orgies.
The stylish entry of Mohanlal after a long wait of his fans, and the subdued roleplay of Prithviraj with suppressed anger against those who brutally ruined his helplessly unarmed clan, make watching L2 Empuraan an exciting experience. But why should Mohanlal alone fight in the scene saving Manju Warrier from a religious fundamentalist group, when he has a line of his gang standing behind him and why should Mohanlal & Prithviraj alone violently kill Balraj Patel {Abhimanyu Singh}and his men, when the duo have their armed men standing behind them. Just as the present-day cinema goes, there is a lot of crude and bloody violence in L2 Empuraan too.
The extended climax of the film would remind the audience of a similar scene in Vikram 2 that showed boisterous Suriya as the prospective gangster of the implied Vikram 3. Let Lucifer 3 focus categorically on specific course of events in politics, instead of forcing the audience to let their minds shuttle among different zones of violence. Finally, L2 is certainly a better sequel than most others, but still, it could stand only behind the protective shades of Lucifer.
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