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I've always found some of the best acting is in plays and movies carried by one actor. Mélanie Laurent does a brilliant job here with an interesting concept. The dialog and cinematography are top notch. The flashbacks and interactions with the AI, and the clues provided in the limited conversations with humans, add to the drama. The revelations keep unfolding in a way that grabs your attention. If you're a hard core sci-fan (not a misogynistic superhero fan-boy), don't miss this gem. I will definitely be looking for more from this actress, director, and writer. I watch a lot of junky sci-fi and was delighted to come across this movie.
A beautiful film with passion and interesting development of the relationships between the three tennis players. Zendaya was gorgeous and fascinating as always, and the two men were gripping as the buddies whose friendship was complicated by Zendaya. The tennis scenes were exciting, and I say this as someone who is not generally a fan. I was confused by the lack of exposition as to how the three ended up so down in the second half. But the thing that really annoyed the hell out of me was the inane techno music that overwhelmed the tense scenes of dialog. I like me some good techno from time to time, and am a fan of the musicians, but this was so loud, painful, and unnecessary, it ruined the pivotal scenes for me. I guess the filmmakers were afraid the audience needed a cue as to which scenes were tense and pivotal.
The acting in this film is fascinating and the cast is absolutely stellar. It's an interesting story and certainly would have deserved a 9 were it not for two major flaws that are common in movies these days but taken to absurd excess here. First, the sound. It was so muffled and echoey, and the music and sound effects were so overwhelming, that my friends and I missed at least a third of the dialog. Since the drama depended on the dialog, this was a serious error in judgment. At times, it was obvious something very humorous was occurring in the dialog, but the entire audience just sat in confused silence trying to figure out what was going on. And then there were the frequent changes in scene. Just as you are settling into a scene, suddenly the story jumps to a different city, with different people, in a different decade. Between the inaudible dialog and the frenetic changes in scene, the film was often difficult to follow. I look forward to watching this with subtitles to see what I missed.