Blast

[Drunk Monk]

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Blast

Coming to Netflix

 

This was delightful. Solid Indian values about family and community, about helping strangers in need, all neatly tucked into some outrageous ultravi.

Tollywood ultravi is fascinating. It’s a lot of villain flying through the air in slo Mo and crashing into stuff, all set to trumpeting Indian beats. This even had rap and thrash metal shout singing in it. The physics are ridiculous and the punches and kicks are wild but not overly impactful, but it still works. The crazy hits are clever. It’s like watching car crashes in slomo set to Bhangra beats.

The lead is Arjun who’s been in over 100 action films. He basically scowls stoically and kick a lotta ass. He’s merciless. When he has tied up villains, he’ll cut their throats with a sword. His wife and daughter are both played by dancers. They can move well but lack impact. There’s something satisfying about watching ruffians try to manhandle them, and then they toss them like throw pillows. 

The plot is absurd - they get on the outs with a gang trying to drill for a major gem worth a gazillion but the drilling will cause an avalanche that will wipe out a village and they don’t know the family are karate masters. As they get more entangled and start losing goons, they figure it out. There’s this marked bill that gets lost which is the key to a truck full of money and everyone is after it. Let the ultravi fly!

Netflix has this listed for like 2+ hours but it’s only like an hour and a half. Then the Netflix like or not button appears, then it skips back an hour to fill the time. Weird. I would’ve totally watched this at 2x speed if Netflix still offered that. So much slo mo.

D00M reccomended. It’s very tongue in cheek, and yet quite sanguineous.