Vijay Deverakonda has a great screen presence and that might've saved him and Puri Jagnath in this film.
The first hour - of the movie was decent, the first fight scene was clean, the camera caught all hits in the right angle and flashed crisp moves. The curiosity of the movie was on the right track - meaning, quiet a few movies nowadays are pretentious after a few minuites in.
The characters's introductions were also adequet. Ramya Krishna's, Vijay, Ronit Roy and Ananya paday and Liger's fellow fighters. Ronit Roy's role as a coach was decent, he advised appropriatley but had not much importance later on in the movie. Ramya Krishna's role was decent until the second half. For example, her expressions and her chnage of positin was awkward when she tried to show off as a proud mother after Liger's MMA championshoip. She tried to emmunate her intensity onto the audiance as she did in Bahubali. And the frame there was blurry, it felt like Puri Jaganth did not polish the movie well.
Another place Puri did not polish well was when Liger was figting Mark Anderson, the camera did not deviate properly when Tyson punched Liger. And when Liger threw the last strike on Tyson, a lady's back covered the frame and did not show how Mark Anderson fell to ground. That was disappointing.
Mike Tyson was so random, he was working for some underworld mafia thing, and Liger fought him to save the heroine. What? If Tyson showed up at the International MMA Match as an advisor, or something relating to MMA he would of been more of a useful character and also would of recived some respect to his career. His role was very disappoiting.
The most diassapointing was the ending of the movie. It made me wonder if this movie was a about a random love story or actually about fighting. We don't even know if he won the International MMA. The love story was very random, like there was no emotional connection. She saw him fight and felt lust. The character had no scope. She mentioned going to Vegas to pursue acting but her dad says she is pursuing modeling. Another thing Puri, Nevada is a state and Vegas is in Nevada. Liger did not go to Nevada (again) to bring Tanya. Puri did not polish the movie and the dialogues were not polished either. As an audience I come to the movie to escape into another world, not to get confused.
Vijay Deverakond's acting was just a few stammering dialogues and fighting. Ananya Panday's acting was decent her character was bad so I can't seem to judge that well. Ramya Krishna's acting was overwhelming. Ronit Roy's acting had a lot of close up shots and so the lipsnching being off was very noticable.
Overall, the movie was very random, - random songs, random love story, random dailouges, and a lot of fights. The fights are only part I am not complaining about. At the least the movie is not pretentious, so I still like you Puri.
My rating 2.7/5 or I guess 6/10.
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