So, that Indian Netflix movie RRR has attracted a lot of positive reviews in the USA and elsewhere, and I thought I would give it a go, given my general fondness for good foreign content.
I knew it was not going to be realistic; I knew it was going to be over-the-top and rather silly in a Bollywood way at times. And I thought for the first 30 minutes or so that maybe I would enjoy it.
But it wore me down and I gave up at the half way mark. I wasn't expecting the intense cartoonishness of so much of it; the extremities of anti-colonialism in the English characters' acting and dialogue that made the cringe aspects of the Titanic screenplay sound like Shakespeare; or the unexplained motivations of the lead character, who I presume redeems himself by the end, but in the giant action sequence in the middle (the one where scores of CGI animals are running rampant in the colonial mansion) is prepared to beat his former friend to a pulp in order to gain a promotion. Another thing that continually bothered me was how the locations felt so inauthentic - it looked far too much like it was mostly filmed in a giant studio set, and now that I check, a lot of it was actually filmed in bits of Europe.
So no, it didn't get my seal of approval, and I am a bit puzzled as to why so many people do like it. If you are into film for OTT action, I think any good kung fu film has more "authentic" feeling.
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