Drive. Tarun Mansukhani. 2019. ☆☆☆☆★★
Third movie of the night: This is an Indian action movie or something? “DROVE”?
As in “it drove me crazy”?
The titles at the start seemed to say something about Israel? Is this an Indian/Israeli thing?
And now there’s dancing! Yay!
What spectacle. After the titles, I’m definitely intrigued.
Drive begins like a wannabe Dhoom (2004) and ends like a dumber version of Dhoom 3 (2013).
No I don’t!
This is the goofiest shit I’ve ever seen.
That’s harsh. 2.3/10 on imdb? I wonder what happened! Nothing scores that low. Was is brigaded? Why!? This is intriguing!
7/7 found that useful!?
There’s 170 reviews of this movie on imbd, and they’re all kinda like that. Saying this is the worst movie ever, but not really saying why, and they’re all written by people from India (is my guess from the er I guess you could call it English). I mean:
Hm… Is this the explanation?
People from India are embarrassed that people from outside of India gets to watch a super-silly comedy slash action movie from India? Could that be it? Hm… I think there must be something more behind this. The reviews and votes look part of some campaign or other, anyway.
Whether Drive is so bad it’s good, so unwatchable that it’s watchable, a crack-a-box-of-wine-and-invite-your-friends-over-for-a-hate-watch is debatable. I’m too bamboozled from the overwhelmingly stupefying experience of it to make a clear assessment right now.
OK, the CGI car chases are stunningly bad… but nothing makes any sense whatsoever, which I admire. You have to work hard at making a movie this stupid.
I’m amused, entertained and bemildred. I mean bewildred.
I have never seen any of the Fast & Furious movies, and I kinda doubt that they’re this funny and exciting, but this almost makes me want to check them out.
Because this is hilarious.
The actors are fun to watch (and the female actors are always impeccably lit), and the editing is on point for maximum fun.
The dancing bits aren’t really integrated into the movie at all, but appear as, like, music videos appearing randomly. But the dancing is impeccable and the spectacles are er spectacular.
It’s really too bad the CGI is really, really horrible.
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