This movie has such a wild history and it's kind of amazing it even got released. Go look it up. It does show in some of the action scenes, but it's not derailing the movie as a whole.
The first 25 minutes are so are purposefully very frantic and busy, but even then it's too frantic and busy. Like I had a headache watching it, it needed to come down from 150% to maybe 120%. I also wish everyone would step back from the camera a few steps.
After that, it does slow down and take the time to build it's narrative - and it's surrealism. It's very surreal, it's nice to vibe to in those first 25 minutes when you're rewatching.
If it had been any more surreal, it would lose people, but I can see why people think it treads familiar ground, because it expects the cultural identity to elevate it to something unexpected, at least for American audiences.
The ideology is basically "Working together to achieve your individual goals works better, even when that goal is righteous revenge." The idea of revenge is never shamed, which I loved. A lot of people need revenge against them because a lot of people are corrupted and initiate violence against the underclass.
The music and score is spectacular.
Ok now that I've reviewed it you logically and in a levelheaded way, good lord Dev Patel. Jesus. Fuck. Fanning myself throughout this entire thing.
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