Challengers (BD) [Blu-ray]

I must admit that I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this movie. Challengers (2024) impressively avoids being a boring and typical melodrama. The story of a love triangle (between a rather obnoxious trio) set in the world of professional tennis with three different competitive personalities and three career paths. Engagingly told in a fractured narrative that I felt enhanced the drama, and filmed with an aggressively stylish cinematic approach. The direction is solid, and acting well done, but it is the dynamic, creative cinematography, flashy editing, and the driving score, that make the film exciting and memorable, with the look and feel of a music video or artistic commercial. As with most of Luca Guadagnino's work, this may be an acquired taste. I enjoyed this film more than the director's other work, though I do recommend I Am Love (2010), A Bigger Splash (2015), and even the Suspira (2018) "remake". Also recommended: Past Lives (2023) and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003). Unfortunately, this Blu-ray is completely lacking in extra content- some insight from the director and cast would have been nice.

Rather than the same old Hollywood trash, this movie treats its audience with respect and assumes we have a brain. Fantastic intricate plot, great acting, and great (non-graphic but still sexy) sex scenes. A must see!

It was a good movie.

This movie has so many great artistic elements and the soundtrack is amazing! The actors embody their characters well and the tension between the trio is palpable. If you are looking for a cliché sports romance film this is not it. Luca (the director) does what he does best and highlights the subtleties of body language, eye contact, and indirect forms of communication. This film embodies the back-and-fourth of a tennis match with past and current events bouncing around to fill in the players history. When the music plays the game is on! If you want to turn your brain off and simply be entertained I’d recommend watching a dry cookie cutter movie if that’s all you think you can handle, or you can watch a great film, which is what this is. Disclaimer: The movie is homoerotic but not explicitly gay as the characters (Tashi and Art are married with a kid). *If that’s not your cup of tea don’t waste your time and please don’t leave a review tainted with your religious bias.

In 'Challengers' an essence is followed, driving competitiveness between three people: Patrick Zweig (Josh O'Connor), Tashi Duncan (Zendaya), and Art Donaldson (Mike Faist). 'Challengers' is a movie that portrays lives that are drawn into a specific propulsion. The viewer is subscribed to watching various points in time being shifted to describe the attitudes of three tennis players. There is resulting unfaithfulness, and jealousies that transpire, loosely, from the center of an essential motivation, a desire for a state aquired only in uninterrupted exchanges in a tennis match. Patrick, Tashi, and Art share a bond and realize intimate affairs together. The void, the magnet, the undescernible dynamic, both intellectual and erotic, is never actually defined as a material emotion or specific idea. To the watcher of the drama also, never has the interest of tennis been more impressive. The excitement is excellent as some great action montages, between rival tennis prodigies, Art and Patrick, are played out. Specific matches are revisited and likewise, not only is the world of tennis culture inspected, but these instances of showdowns have triangular face-off implications. Patrick's professional life after Stanford University is the lifestyle of hashing out money from tournaments such as the New Rochelle Challenger. Even this small scale manuevering has Patrick mingling with parking place retreats. Clubs garlanded in moody wooded tracts of tree islands. Josh O'Connor playing Patrick, in small talk is continually smiling about the game of life. Patrick has menial schemes, things going on in mobility, and he is unshaven. Tashi Duncan is like the healer-guru to a wealthy household that is resorted in complaisance by her reign of casual influence. Zendaya playing Tashi Duncan is an activist for priorities and experiential longings. After Tashi's Stanford Women's Tennis Team success, Tashi continues her seduction in coaching. She is promulgator of obtaining the perfect tennis game. Art Donaldson is the archetype of a blond youth who comes from prominent family and participates in ivy-league sports. Art really is an ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) tourer, seeking a U.S. Open win to achieve a grand slam. The film 'Challengers' has the resonance of a passionate current and the atmosphere of attitude contests is given non-linearly. This brings us to the New Rochelle Challenger before the big U.S. Open Men's tournament. There is rythmic static music and a dual activity of watching Tashi studying her students-Patrick and Art-describing a metamorphesis. The collage of tennis tournament locales and the intense burning daytime avarice is like a hedonist paradise. The sport of tennis is a ritual, only rarely to achieve the sparring state. The exclusivity of this height is celebrated in private concert overseen by Tashi. 'Challengers' is a movie that connects one to kinetic motives but it's isolated, encoded, green leaf decadence starts to glow commonplaceness as we move towards the end.

Very boring film with no purpose. She always plays the same non emotional, blank stare, non caring person in any film or series I see her. The constant time jumping is trying to get you to understand the backstory but convinces me its just bad story planning. In the trash.

My current movie of the year. From the cinematography to the music both utilized perfectly to enhance the already fantastic character drama acted by superb actors. The use of tennis as a metaphor for a relationship is a brilliantly done and constant motif throughout the entire movie, love it. The suspense builds and builds into one of the best climaxes I've seen in a few years, last 10 minutes had me leaning forward hands on my head. TLDR: If you like a sultry, competitive, toxic mess of a love triangle, I highly suggest giving Challengers a shot

This was an incredible movie. Zendaya’s character is artfully done, powerful, manipulative in the best way, and drives those boys wild. Speaking of the boys, polar opposites, one clean sexy and one dirty sexy, one who obeys and one who tests the waters, with an almost seductive tension over a shared love. The competition on and off the court can push you to be the champ. Challengers 2 needs to be a reunion back to the court together with her by their side.

I did not expect much and was surprised, very entertaining.

En mycket bra och intressant film. Jag tycker mycket om den. Man får mycket lärdom av den.

Box is abit flimsy mostly due to a huge hole cut out of it on the inside for a recycle logo to tell you that you cant recycle the type plastic the case is made from. It makes me worry the paper cover could get damaged. The print of the paper and the plastic film are so loose im (again) worried about possible damage. Ive seen people whove burned dvds/cds do a better job at printing covers and fitting them ect with a less sloppy plastic film over it than this. It was cheap so i dont mind, i just love physical media. Havent had a chance to play it yet x

Image blu ray et musique excellente. Un film dans la même veine que the social network. Cela faisait longtemps que je n’avais pas vu un film aussi bien filmé et joué. Un incontournable !

Quelques faiblesses au niveau de la réalisation pour garder l'intérêt.Il est,selon moi,30 minutes trop long