![]() ![]() To put it gently, English people in this movie are portrayed, with one single exception, as the worst people on earth. ![]() What also makes this movie really work is the ridiculous historical fanfiction that makes up the plot. ![]() and Ram Charan’s characters get one up on the stuffy British people by challenging them to a dance off, it’s impossible to not want them to succeed. Especially in the scene where Rama Rao Jr. You believe that these men are larger than life because the camera just loves them. roars in the face of a CGI tiger or Charan does fights off an entire crowd of rioting people on his own, they sell these stunts by fully embracing the more-than-real space that cinema allows for. These two are an older kind of movie star though they have acting chops, most of what the audience needs is delivered just by their presence on screen. Essentially they like each other because they sense that the other is just a really good dude, and as the film goes on, their dedication to freeing Indians from the grasp of the empire deepens that bond. A large part of that is that the friendship between its male leads is so simple, each of them charismatic enough to carry their own movie and somehow twice as charming together. It’s also the kind of movie where one lead breaks another out of prison, carrying him on his shoulders while the other uses a rifle in each hand to shoot the British soldiers trying to take them down.īut what makes RRR compelling isn’t just its action. This is a kind of movie where the two leads meet by saving a child from an oil tanker exploding by driving a motorcycle and a horse, respectively, off opposite sides of a bridge, snatching the child trapped by the oil explosion in the nick of time, grasping each others’ hands as the tanker continues to explode in the background. RRR is a kind of movie that demands that you see it in the theater to experience the fullness of its spectacle, and especially its action. It’s nuts, but it doesn’t matter the plot is just a pretext for the filmmakers showing you some of the coolest shit you’ve ever seen in your life. This movie isn’t a lot different than that, except instead of being a scheme to get Travolta and Cage to swap bodies, it’s set during the time when India was colonized by the British and is essentially fanfiction about two real historical revolutionaries who did not actually know each other. The premise of a film like Face/Off is patently ridiculous-until you learn that the movie stars John Travolta and Nicholas Cage, and is directed by John Woo. Even just this description takes me back to action movies from the ‘80s and ‘90s, when you could sell people on a movie based on the stars alone. ![]()
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