This is a dazzling master class of a sports movie: I suspect I'm not the only viewer with absolutely no interest in women's freestyle wrestling who found it utterly gripping. Star and producer Aamir Khan, who spends practically the whole film looking splendidly cross, has form in loading the genre with subtext with the magnificent Lagaan (2001), and in many ways this is more direct and streamlined, tackling the story with a sports person's focus that eats up the customarily…
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Deadly Prey 1987
The one thing I learned from watching this was that the most ridiculous and unrealistic depiction of dismemberment in the history of cinema is no longer the Black Knight scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Could be dismissed as a piece of harmless nonsense but it has a gloating, misanthropic tone which extends to a rape scene -- equally as inept as everything else about the film but it leaves a nasty taste.
