Challengers is a bad movie. Maybe the worst movie from someone I consider a quality director in the last year or so. It gives me enormous pause when people I respect really like the film… and they are out there. I can see some of the things that they find attractive about the film. But as I sat in that theater and watched it roll out, I really tried to find the better angels of the film. And I kept finding it offering up the rough sketches of interesting ideas, repeatedly turned into cartoons.
I'm not sure I was interested in seeing this movie, but I might check it out on streaming at some point.
Oddly enough the wife and I rewatched Wimbledon the other day and it still remains remarkably breezy and fun? I don't think Kirsten Dunst is very good in it but apart from that it's just a very solid romcom. At the very least it's one of the better movies Paul Bettany made when he was in his leading man era (I wish I could erase the memory of having watched Legion and Priest).
I'm not sure I was interested in seeing this movie, but I might check it out on streaming at some point.
Oddly enough the wife and I rewatched Wimbledon the other day and it still remains remarkably breezy and fun? I don't think Kirsten Dunst is very good in it but apart from that it's just a very solid romcom. At the very least it's one of the better movies Paul Bettany made when he was in his leading man era (I wish I could erase the memory of having watched Legion and Priest).