The Brawler (2017)
5/10
Half hearted effort.
10 May 2019
Firstly, it's not a sports movie, it's more of a social commentary with boxing as a background. Too many things going on at once and yet none of it leave any impression whatsoever. Whole movie seems like half hearted/ forced effort by the director. Sports based/ themed movie mostly depend on sports choreography. Here it is awful, looks like a work of amateur who was not given budget. Even fight choreography is so bad that it will make movies of early 70's and their dishoom dishoom look legendary in front of it. Vineet Kumar Singh: The only shining spot of the movie. It is visible the efforts, training he has put into the role of shravan kumar singh. Sadly, director couldn't do any justice to it. Ravi Kishan as a coach is good but he didnt had much to do. Jimmy Shergill: Worst character written + really bad acting. Usually Jimmy is a trustable actor. Here he is cringe AF. In whole movie he couldn't decide whether he wanted to be a Baahubali, local goon, Evil or good. Randomly in the movie he says, "boxing pe movie 40 crore kamaati hai, aur tournament dekhne 40 log bhi nahi aate". Mind u his character doesn't give a crap abt boxing in whole movie.

The story has so many plot holes and badly written characters making you can feel throughout that everybody was forced to made this movie. Conclusion: There is lot of good cinema out there , dont waste ur 150 minutes on this wannabe social commentary. It's bad.
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