“Court violation, audible obscenity”
Challengers Review
It’s beautiful, bold, colorful, it makes you hate it’s characters and understand them at the same time and it has some really hard soundtrack that plays whenever things get heated between characters. Challengers for me, feels a little too long, a bit too over indulgent, and sometimes out of place and time but somehow the movie manages to make you feel like it’s 2h 15m runtime is justified. It starts at present and then jumps back to the past and then present, sort of going back-and-forth but everytime the distance becomes reduced until it reaches the final scene.
By that point, you know every motivation, every glance, every movement of the camera and it all speaks so much about the characters and how they feel in that moment.
This is also a lot more about tennis then i imagined. Just amazes me to see these actors being so comfortable and awesome with a racket in their hands, serving and playing tennis often in one-shot sequences where everything could have gone wrong.
Rating: N/A (might rewatch)
Thanks for the review. I personally enjoyed the movie largely because of the dynamic between the 3 main characters, and the soundtrack. I agree on the runtime. They could’ve trimmed 15 mins and it probably wouldn’t diminish the movie in any way.
