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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      I actually rewatched it a few years back the CG didn’t age as well. I liked the concept so much as a kid.

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        8 months ago

        the CG didn’t age as well.

        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.

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          8 months ago

          Never saw that one. Ultraviolet motorcycle on the building scene is what I recall specifically. I remember thinking ouch. Something really bothered me there.