Challengers | Film Review
Tensions arise when tennis player-turned-coach Tashi (Zendaya) and her grand slam champion husband Art (Mike Faist) find themselves playing a tournament against Patrick (Josh O'Connor), Art's former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend. It's been a while that a film has been on my Twitter feed as much as this one was in the run-up to its release. I wasn't particularly keen on the concept, but I wanted to see if it was as good as everyone said it was. Unfortunately, I didn't like the film that much, and don't really understand the hype. For a start, I'm not a huge tennis fan. And although the film is really about these three characters and their relationships, I feel like it would be more enjoyable to a tennis fan than to someone who finds the sport boring, as I do. None of the characters felt particularly memorable, in the sense that it would be hard to remember any meaningful things about them, outside of their relationship(s), after seeing the film...