Review of Challengers

Challengers (2024)
7/10
[6.7] Tennis?! I just saw Zendaya with a racket extension
21 May 2024
Frankly, besides the trio "very" interesting "love" triangle romance and hard-sensation-romantic flick that sometimes made you wonder what tennis has to do with and in it; could have been any other sport, golf, skating, table tennis, gymnastic and even ballet! (ballet would have been the best and depicted much more naturally and flawlessly); Nevertheless, that's an eye-candy, sweetness for the senses movie that keeps you more or less interested and invested, had it not been almost ruined with those constant "50 horrible years" time jumps and back and forth.

Zendaya is the queen of the movie and deserves awards for her acting, believable tennis (playing) as well as making the fashion industry beauties drool and sweat with awe and jealousy.

For me, 'Challengers' was believable, entertaining and as a tennis lover sort of fantastically amazing (that's me with lots of pepper and condiments in praising it), though, toward the end and especially that abrupt ending, was a little head banging and unsatisfying both relating to its sport tale as well as its foggy romantic (hubby-wife-GF) conclusion.

Zendaya, I now believe in you more as an actress who sometimes looks like a very lean and distant cousin of Sofia Loren; you can act, you can show your emotions and maybe time for you to deservingly grow up and play more R productions for all your fans' pleasure.

  • Screenplay/storyline/plots: 6.5
  • Production value/impact: 7
  • Development: 8
  • Realism: 7.5
  • Entertainment: 7
  • Acting: 7
  • Filming/photography/cinematography: 8
  • VFX: 8
  • Music/score/sound: 6
  • Depth: 6
  • Logic: 5.5
  • Flow: 7
  • Drama/romance/sport: 6.5
  • Ending: 4.
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