Kinda the same movie as Ready or Not. Lucky for them, I fucking love Ready or Not.
Who told Dan Stevens to do that dang accent? It’s terrible!
“Were just talking about tennis”
“But you’re ALWAYS talking about tennis!”
In Challengers, everything is tennis - even the things that aren’t. That includes the camera: we become the players, become the spectator, become the ball, and feel as the ball passes through us. In one scene, we watch Tashi and Patrick in a dorm room screaming match where the camera watches them like a tennis spectator, following the flow of play with their head on a swivel. Even time…
“I wanted to say, in another life, I would really like just doing laundry and taxes with you.”
Future reviews of this movie are going to be where you can find me going all-in on everything this movie is. There will be more, once this gets a wide release.
But let me just say, I have never seen one single movie like this one. It contains multitudes - Turning Red, The Matrix, Kung-Fu Hustle, Ratatouille - but no other movie…
COME ON!!!!!!
This was, in Tashi’s words, some good tennis. I loved every shot, I loved every part of the score, I loved that this was so sweaty and horny and beautiful. I had a fucking blast. I could have watched this for hours longer. EXQUISITELY paced. Good Jesus.