Having been a big fan of Stephen Merchant's work before I was sort of underwhelmed by this. Whilst he demonstrates that he's a competent director I felt that the writing was a little formulaic, especially with the humour which felt a little obvious most of the time. Nonetheless they are still some decent jokes in here, especially helped by Nick Frost's delivery.
Whilst Paige's story is fairly formulaic and simple, the aspect of the plot involving her brother Zak and how he coped with not being picked for the WWE training programme was really well-written. It added a genuinely intriguing element to the narrative and helped to raise my score for the film.
Aside from that the acting from everyone was pretty great, especially from Florence Pugh and Jack Lowden, whilst Dwayne Johnson was entertaining in the couple of scenes that he is in.
Whilst not really appealing to me, I'm glad people are enjoying it and I hope Merchant will be able to do more directing in the future.
Whilst Paige's story is fairly formulaic and simple, the aspect of the plot involving her brother Zak and how he coped with not being picked for the WWE training programme was really well-written. It added a genuinely intriguing element to the narrative and helped to raise my score for the film.
Aside from that the acting from everyone was pretty great, especially from Florence Pugh and Jack Lowden, whilst Dwayne Johnson was entertaining in the couple of scenes that he is in.
Whilst not really appealing to me, I'm glad people are enjoying it and I hope Merchant will be able to do more directing in the future.