I wanted to like this movie, and I did in fact like it for the majority of its run time despite not being able to buy Zendaya in the older version of her character. She was fine as the younger version, but wearing a permanent scowl as the only means to portray unhappiness in not acting. There was zero subtlety in her performance.
In my opinion you have to be able to enjoy a movie with no likeable characters in order to enjoy this film at all because, in the end, none of them were. Not even the one I feel they intended to be. I am ok with that. But where it started to lose me was as we neared the end.
An entertainingly stylish movie suddenly became a whirlwind of rapid cuts back and forth between past and present, alternating first person shots, tennis ball cam shots, shot from beneath the court, in a dizzying display over overindulgence. Then we get a very anticlimactic ending which leads us to believe that all these unlikeable characters will end up getting what they really wanted in the end, topped with a call back painfully bad shriek by Zendaya to finish it all off.
Somehow this made a long movie feel like it was in a rush to be finished and made the payoff not gratifying or rewarding. I'm glad I watched it, but it's unlikely I will ever revisit.
In my opinion you have to be able to enjoy a movie with no likeable characters in order to enjoy this film at all because, in the end, none of them were. Not even the one I feel they intended to be. I am ok with that. But where it started to lose me was as we neared the end.
An entertainingly stylish movie suddenly became a whirlwind of rapid cuts back and forth between past and present, alternating first person shots, tennis ball cam shots, shot from beneath the court, in a dizzying display over overindulgence. Then we get a very anticlimactic ending which leads us to believe that all these unlikeable characters will end up getting what they really wanted in the end, topped with a call back painfully bad shriek by Zendaya to finish it all off.
Somehow this made a long movie feel like it was in a rush to be finished and made the payoff not gratifying or rewarding. I'm glad I watched it, but it's unlikely I will ever revisit.
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