 The boys back at it again with another review. Cabal! Big a while! Welcome back to our Stupid Rack, kids. It's I am Corbin. And this is Rick. What's up? You know what I'm trying to go and smash the like button, subscribe, and ring that little bell to be part of the notification squad. Love it when you do that. Please follow us on Instagram and Twitter. A little juicy content. It's so juicy. Nice to see you. We have a review. We usually try to give you a couple reviews a week. Sadly last week we only got you one and it was a bad luck. And the reason for that was we've been doing a lot of preparation for some special stuff coming your way this week. So didn't have time to fully watch a film. Especially this guy who does all the work. And so we watched. Jisya! Jisya! So this came out a while ago so this is going to be a spoiler review. So yeah, please if you haven't seen this, which I think virtually all of you have seen this and the original that was prior that this is a I assume most of you have seen it. I would assume. The reaction to the trailer that we did, which I will link right here. Bang! Got incredibly positive reviews. Yes. Which is why we decided to watch it. Oh, my phone's got to go on airplane mode. I have notes from watching it. But I won't be able to read them because the stupid babies are constantly messaging us. Oh, you're so popular. I feel so popular. Pop. Euler. What musical is that from? Everybody. That's all you get. No, they don't. We'll see what happens just from that. Guys, Euler. Back on track here. Airplane mode. Good. Let's do it. So we watched this movie. It came out in 2015 starring AJ Devon. AJ Devon. And I hope I got that right. I think we've seen Taboo before. Yes. The head of the... Yeah. She was in... The head of the thing. She was in, say it. Which one? I don't... There's a couple. No, the one you always say that they love hearing you say it. Ananda Hunt? Yes. This is the main, the woman, the wife of the husband who's having that hair. Oh, yes. Yeah, that's right. That's her. That's why she was so promote. Yes. Desperate measures are taken by a man and really his family who tries to save his family from the dark side of the law after they commit an unexpected crime. That's a good way to say it. That's true. And so from the trailer, basically, we didn't know what to think, obviously. No, but I remember us liking it. No, I've been thinking, love the trailer. What is this about? And then we didn't realize all the layers that kind of went into it. Yeah. And when it started out, I was annoyed a little bit. Yeah. I'm so annoyed. What annoyed you? Well, a couple things. The first thing I noticed was the score was really annoying. Yeah, let me see. Because it would be this drama, right? Yeah, I put here score placement. Choices are awful. Yeah. There was a couple of different times that you really noticed the score and you shouldn't. You shouldn't. Like when the assistant to the main guy, whenever he talked or did something silly, it got like three idiots' music. Right. I agree. And I was like, what? There was nowhere else in the film. Right. And they decided to put that there. And I'm like, this would have still been funny, actually, even more funny if you would have just left that out. Agreed. You don't need that music. And then also, the main girl who was the mother and the head IG, I think they called her. Yeah, from Andahanan. They gave her a theme like KGF music behind her each time. And I'm like, we don't need to hear her theme every time she appears on screen. And she was great in the film. Yes, she's always good. She was one of the strongest parts along with the main guy. He was great as well. Her, him, and his wife. His wife. They held the thing together for that. They were all really great. I did, though, end up enjoying this film. I did. You probably enjoyed it more than I did. I, when it ended, my thought was I kind of wish I'd seen the original first, which a lot of people were saying, see the original from which this was made. Yeah. And I'm tempted to really do that because I didn't like it as much as, I didn't dislike it. But I didn't like it as much as I thought I would. And partly because of there were, there was nothing like the piano playing. I hope not. I will cut it all. But here's some of my notes that I wrote. The first 25 minutes of the film, the pacing seemed choppy to me and I didn't know where it was going. Yeah. And it seemed, the beginning was definitely the weakest part. Yes. It seemed thematically inconsistent with the score, the way it was edited together. And really the only thing for me in the first 25 minutes I wrote down that part of the first half hour was, I connected to his wife. Her performance. Yeah. She did a great job. I felt connected to her. I didn't really, as good as he was, because he was believable every moment he was on screen. I completely believed every moment he was on screen. He's a phenomenologist. Phenomenal actor. I like him a lot. But I wasn't really caring about anybody and I had a lot of questions. Bless her heart. The girl playing the daughter, there were some moments of her crying that were just forced. Yeah. That's not fair because you can't expect child actors to just knock it out of the park. It's very rare that you get a child actor that can do stuff that we've seen some child actors do. I don't hold that, it's just the way it ends. To put someone of that age into that heavy of an emotional role is tough, but I didn't connect. Obviously it's a tough role. When it started to kind of really draw me in was obviously when the kid came over because that whole situation was very strange to me as an American. Like a cultural thing of why was that so threatening. Yeah, like he should be the one worried if he sells that. Right, because what was he doing peeping? What was he doing creeping on this girl? And why would that ruin somebody's life? It should actually be ruining his life. Right. And for threatening her with that, one, that she's just taking a shower. So I didn't quite understand. I was like, this must be a different cultural thing. Like if people see her, it's huge, huge. The modesty thing is huge. Very strange to me though. And obviously it shouldn't be that way. I don't know if it is, I don't know. That's my suspicion as well is that that is what it is. That for us, the thought of having somebody, I mean, you've probably seen and I'm sure you get it in India where there's way worse stuff than that that circulates on the internet and people don't get in trouble for it. But I believe, especially in certain regions, cause that's one of the things about India is that things are very different. Like the drinking ages are changing wherever you go. And I think that anything that in any way could present a young lady in anything but pure modesty and propriety could be devastating to their family's reputation. So that's what I was thinking. It's just obviously, it was strange, but that's when it kind of drew me in. It didn't seem like a big deal. What's going on here? Because obviously at, when then he turned on the wife and it was like, and then they just cut and then you just saw them shaking in the bed, which was a great scene. But I was like, did he just rape them? Right, right, right, like all of them. It seemed like that was the perspective for something that didn't- It kind of drew me in. And most films, if there's like some bad eye in, there was some problems with this, like the score and then there was some acting not from the main people. And there was some lighting problems. Sorry, sorry, production team, but- And there was some lighting problems. And there was a lot of problems with any action most of the time. Not all the action. There was some action that was good, but most of it, like obviously the fight scenes between the kid and the- Oh yeah. And anybody like that, it was all pretty terrible. Yeah. It was like, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. The whole interrogation sequence. Oh, never really made me uncomfortable as I think it was wanting to make me uncomfortable. I noticed also that they didn't show a lot of the beating of the two girls as much as they did him. Of course. Like they did the whole thing on him. Yeah. And it was him slap, slap, slap. And then it kind of was almost a waste and you just heard it most of the time. You saw it a couple of times. But I was like, I don't know. I think that's a cultural thing. People are uncomfortable if you- I think, yeah, I think if you cross that line cinematically, they would get a lot of uproar of do not show child abuse like that. And the same way, for example, in American film, people drink and there's nothing but in an Indian film, if someone drinks alcohol, the warning goes up of this is injurious to your health. I think there's just some cultural things that are like, for example, the other thing, and I'm a big fan of this one, if you'll notice, nudity and over sexuality is much less. It's not void. I mean, we've already seen some stuff in other things where it's like Game of Thrones. But many of the films have a level of propriety where they leave the rest of the imagination and they don't want to go there. And I'm cool with that. But I agree, it lost. If they had filmed the interrogation and maybe the original does this, if the interrogation sequence had been a bit more shocking, I would have been a bit more engaged. That was the other thing. Did you care about anybody? Like, did you get personally connected that you cared about the story? The main guy. Even then, I thought it was kind of weird. It was like, there were some things that just didn't make sense to me. One of the things I did love most about this film was how engaged I was, even with some of the problems that went on, because I was like, I want to know how he's going to get away with this. I got to agree. I stayed engaged with wanting to know how you're going to get away with this. And then obviously, also, I love the conundrum of these people, well, not these, everyone, but they accidentally murdered this person. Right. Not on purpose. Right. And now they're covering it up. Right. And obviously trying to protect their family so you feel for them. But these other people are trying to figure out who, where their son is, who possibly killed their son. Right. And so you don't know who to kind of root for. You're rooting for the main people because that's who you've connected with, but you're like, I can't really blame these people. Exactly. And I can't really root for you guys because you freaking murdered this kid. And you're covering it up. Right. But, so I like that, Asprek. I love films that I don't see a right or wrong. And they said that in this film, that there's no right or wrong in any of this. Right. But here's something that challenged me in that regard. And I don't know if the original covers it that way. Toward the end, in fact, the very, very end, when they are with him. Yeah. And their lives have been ruined because everyone thinks they falsely accused because when they go in, obviously, there's no body. Which I liked that. Yeah. That surprised me. Yeah, that was fun. I was thinking, I was like, is it the body? Yeah, but the fact that they were smelling something, okay, maybe it is the body. Yeah. So I was wondering what that was. Me too. But when they're there, I had this thought while I was watching it because I'm a parent. So either way, a dad protecting his family and two parents trying to find a son. I could relate to either one. Yeah. When he admits that they did it. I don't know. If you admitted to me after all of this time and you've ruined my life, that you actually did murder my son and you're standing on a cliff. Yeah, that's what I was wondering. I was kind of hoping she was gonna push him off. I can't imagine why they just were, they seemed to be just so resigned to, thanks for that information and now we're gonna go have lunch. Yeah, I can't remember. I can't figure out whether I liked the ending or not. Yeah. And I think that's good. I think that, and I like not knowing whether I agree with that. Cause originally I was like, oh, this is great. And it was great ending. And then they kept going. And he goes, oh crap, is he gonna tell them? And I was kind of mad. Right. Cause they were gonna wrap it up in a bowl. And they're like, yeah, this is what happened. I did it. I did it. And then the way they did it, he didn't actually admit. He was like, somebody was intruding on a family. So there was a problem. We got rid of that problem. Blah, blah. Right. I didn't end up hating it. I was like, I kind of liked this. What I kind of wanted. I kind of don't like this. I kind of wish she would have pushed him off. Cause like I said, I loved that I could have, I related to almost both of them. Cause I was like, neither of them are wrong. Right. Right. You could relate to both of them. The kid deserved to die for what he did, honestly. What I wanted to have happen. Right when they said, when he said yes, it was obviously he was saying that and they had this resigned look of, okay, that sucks, but at least we know. When they turned what I wanted to have happen, I wanted her to turn around with her gun and go. And him go flying backwards and fall off the cliff. And now they have to bury his body somewhere to pull off the fact that they murdered the dad who murdered their son. That's what I wanted. I think that's why they didn't do it though. Cause they were like that. I know. We don't want to. Now, did you see? I think one of the reasons they didn't do anything is cause they understood why he did it. True. Cause they were like, Yeah, our son. I get it. I mean, if somebody did that to our son, Right. We've done it. Which is, again, that's why I, it was just for me, my own personal thing. Did you know that the body was buried under the police station? I got there towards, Towards the end. Towards the end? Yeah. I was like, okay, that's where it is. Yeah. Cause I was like, okay, they're building the police station. I did and it was like, the police and this police station will protect us. That's when I knew that's where I buried it. I was like, okay. Yep. I get it. I get it. And I enjoyed it. And like I said, I, there were even though, most of the times with films, if they have these kinds of issues, I don't end up enjoying it. Me too. Cause that's why I was kind of surprised that I did enjoy it as much as I did. Me too. And so that, that goes to the story of it. The story and the solid acting of the three main people lifted it above any of the problems that would ordinarily make me not like the film. Yeah. I totally agree. And I want to watch the original now. I'd love to compare the two. I think they said though that one, the reason we didn't react to the trailers cause there was either no trailer to the original, to the original, or there was definitely no subs or there was no quality. I can't remember what it was, but somebody said something like that. And that's why we couldn't relate to the South Indian one. And I want to see him in some more stuff. Yeah, he's great. He's great. I can't exactly, what else has he been in? Let's take a look. They're all streamers. He was in Cheve. He was in Cheve. Yeah. Which we ended up liking that trailer. Yeah. There's been very few trailers we've disliked, honestly. Um, a Wednesday. A Wednesday. But I think. And we know that's not the film. We know, we know we need to see. Everybody has was like, trailer sucks, see that film. Oh yeah, he was in Legendary. He was in Symbia. Oh yeah. So we saw that film. Yeah, I knew we've seen his face everywhere. It's so fun now guys, to see trailers and films with these actors we're getting to not just know but actually really like. It's really fun to watch the trailer. Oh, I know, oh, look who it is. But I, like I said, I did enjoy the film. Yeah, very much. Cause I was almost like tense a lot of times. I was like, mm, how are you gonna get away with this murder? Right. Exactly. Exciting. Right. So I probably give it a solid B plus. Yeah, I would put it, I'd probably level that at a B for me. Yeah. It wouldn't be anywhere near the movies that I'm now cherishing. Yeah. In the spectrum of films that we've seen. Cause there's quite a few movies now that I love. If those issues were addressed and it had the quality of Yuri in it. Well. Like in terms of like action and. Or pink. Yeah. That level of really well put together. Would put together everything. Like the score was good. Right. And lighting and everything. It could have been. Pacing way, way up there. Yeah. Those issues kind of lower it for me. Me too. But the story itself and the climax at the end is what really makes the film. Yeah, great story. What makes you really enjoy it. So thank you for that recommendation. Thank you so much. Let us know what we should react to next. Yeah. And review. And end up in the, I'm so much. I'm just gonna end it now. Now.