Review of Challengers

Two tennis films in as many weeks, and I don't even like tennis. I thought this one was pretty good, though critics don't seem to agree. Perhaps the gladiatorial one-to-one competition of tennis makes for better films than say team-sports games or athletics...team sports films are always about the gang learning to play as a team, but tennis is about the mind games and the psychological torture.

And some slightly unusual sex tropes in this one; the two young men both fancy the same woman, but really (or as well) they fancy each other - lots of hints about homoerotic attraction, which never become quite explicit.

Anyway, I enjoyed this - despite some odd choices of music to accompany the narrative. 

Watched via informal distribution and the USB slot at the back of the TV; unusually this is probably the first time a download has ever turned out to be a cam, so that at one point a head briefly travelled across the bottom of the screen. Worse, it was intercut with a lot of adverts for an online gambling service, which was really annoying. Still, you get what you pay for, and what you don't.