I had been anticipating this hopeful cinematic extravaganza for months. I bought tickets for me and my friends for the final showing on the big screen and held my breath. I was WHOLEHEARTEDLY RRREWARRRDED! I’m so glad that I was able to experience it on the big screen - just as something so potent, plentiful, and paramount deserved to be seen. The hype matched the nature of the film; Large, loud, and lively as F*CK! And while my life hasn’t been utterly transformed forevermore, RRR undoubtably stands out as one of the most thrilling and enjoyable movie going experiences I’ve ever had.
It’s a striking vision - an anti-colonial historical epic tied into a mythic buddy adventure film - that abandons historical accurateness and any sense of subtlety at the door in favor of turning every emotion, action, and cinematic beat up to thiRRRteen. There is a cultural paradigm that you can easily pass through at the film’s threshold, as this Tollywood blockbuster deserves embracement and interpretation in the same manner as a superhero popcorn flick or a fiery Wuxia feature. These are larger than life morality tales told on epic scales, with physics matching the feelings. Each of these elements that go above-and-beyond do it with such sincerity and vigor, it feels impossible not to melt into the moment and be wrapped up in the tsunami of awesomeness.
Yes, this film has it all: Near mythical supermen versions of Johnny Utah and Bodhi in uber-Shakespearian bromance conflict, nigh-unrivleable action pieces full of fur & fury, bumbling fish-out-of-water romcom, and quite possibly the best dance scene in modern film history (?). It is pure joy that my feeble words can’t do justice to. See it to believe it, and be betteRRR for it.
P.S. The worthy successor to the Predator epic handshake.