Its multiple story threads and attempts to satirise India’s government sit awkwardly with the action, but there’s much to admire in Dev Patel‘s frenzied, ultraviolet genre spectacle.…Shot and choreographed with a kineticism that never veers too far into the sleekly balletic, the fight scenes here are often enthralling and genuinely bruising. They retain a necessary sense of life-or-death consequence and of the frenzied amateur using every survival tool at his disposal. When Patel’s character stabs an opponent, he drives the blade in not with his hands but with his teeth. You wince, but at the same time, you want to applaud.
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Edit: I see, you mean the typo in the opening line. I guess it means Sight and Sound’s online editor needed more coffee.
O lol I should have just went to bed.
@Spacehooks
Now I want there to be a thrilling ultraviolet movie.
Like, maybe one where there’s ghosts and you can only see them if you wear special UV glasses at the cinema!
There is.
I actually rewatched it a few years back the CG didn’t age as well. I liked the concept so much as a kid.
Disagree. Goes for hyperreal without the whole “Fuck your concept of reality; this is what ‘real’ is now and you can’t afford to depict it.” found in everything disney!Marvel has ever done.
Also, it’s not “Ow, my eyes” shitty like Renaissance.
Never saw that one. Ultraviolet motorcycle on the building scene is what I recall specifically. I remember thinking ouch. Something really bothered me there.