 I don't know what we're doing. What are we doing? Yeah, that's true, you're not that bright. Ha ha ha ha ha! I was in here for that. Yup. You're a stupid right, Steve. It's I'm Corbin. I'm Rick, hi. You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, for more juice content. Send me a picture of that. I'll send you a picture of that. Bang! It's also on personal YouTube channels and just a description below. Do it. Today we're doing a movie review of the new 2021 film, Toofan. Toofan. Toofan. Toofan. The storm. There's a Toofan. I think it's Toofan. Obviously, highly anticipated. Especially by us. We, trailer came out a long time ago. It got pushed back. It was supposed to have the theatrical release. Love the trailer. Obviously ended up being released on OTT platforms. Amazon specifically. It is a Farhan Akht plays a boxer in a fictional drama. That's a synopsis. That's it. Farhan Akht plays a boxer in a fictional drama. Great synopsis. Makes me wanna watch. I'm gonna pitch that to producers. Directed by, say his name. Directed by Rakesh Ombrakesh Mera. Who also did Bog Muckabog. And we loved Bog Muckabog. And what was Rangavisanti? I bet he was part of the team. Oh no, he directed it. What the flying malarkies? Oh, I did not know that. Me too. I thought it was just Bog Muckabog. Me too. So Rangavisanti and Bog Muckabog, both we loved. And produced by Farhan starring Farhan Akhtar and a couple other people. Ronald Sucker. Ronald Sucker. Parish Rubble. And then, they all just say actor. This is like one of the worst IMDb's. Like it doesn't even say the characters. There's no synopsis in the thing. Anyways, but yeah, it just came out. So normally we do complete spoiler reviews, but since it's new, we'll do a small non-spoiler review. And then we'll get into the more spoilers. Yes. Just so you're aware, in case you wanted to go watch it, it's on Amazon. Which many of you, I think, have even watched the spoiler. Yeah, probably. Rick, your initial non-spoiler thoughts, please. Initial non-spoiler thoughts. We say a lot of the time that don't judge a film by its trailer, but just sometimes bad trailers become good films and good trailers become bad films. This is one of those versions where for this film, I felt the trailer was way better than the movie. Yeah. Yep, I feel, without giving anything away, it's an extremely average to mediocre at times boxing film with good performances by Farhan. And I feel like the main problem with this film is the writing in terms of dialogue and plot, which I feel like they didn't try very much. But yeah, so that's basically the non-spoiler review. That's the non-spoiler review. If you want to watch a boxing film, I might suggest if you haven't seen Rocky or Raging Bull. I can give you a slew of them. Or even Creed. Rocky I, II, III, IV, Rocky Balboa, Creed, Cinderella Man, Raging Bull, The Champ, Warrior for MMA Fighting, those are all head and shoulders better. And okay, I don't want to say this is a totally bad film. I just, because we've seen bad films and everything I'm watching is like, this is awful. This is just, in my opinion, extremely predictable and mediocre. Like it's extremely middle of the road. There was something, I put this in here because I've started to delineate basically the 10 areas that we critique consistently. There's pretty much 10 areas that we critique. We critique the story and the script above all, right? And believability is really something we talk about. Acting, direction, cinematography, art direction, production design, the score, visual effects and stunt work, costumes, makeup and hair. But there was something about this one that what I'm about to say is frustrating, but it wouldn't have made a difference. I don't know if it's Amazon or the censor board, but these were the worst subtitles I've ever seen in any of the films we've seen in any of my far now. They weren't even remotely close to what they were saying because a lot of the time, they're talking in English. And even when they were talking in English, the sentence coming out of their mouth wasn't anywhere remotely close to what was being said on the bottom. And I don't know if this is the censor board, but when a character says fuck and on the bottom it says hell, it so pulls me out of the watching experience. But that's not, I don't think that has anything to do with the film. That's either Amazon's subbing or the censor board's subbing, but that is one giant problem with it. If you're not Hindi speaking, you're gonna be distracted by the subtitles in this pretty much an hot stop. Yeah, so it was a big let down for me. It was a big let down. I had big expectations for it. So if that's the non spoiler view, we'll get into the rest of it now. But if you haven't watched it and you wanna go watch it, go watch it and then come back if you don't wanna be spoiled, if you don't care, stick around. But let's talk about the stuff I did. I thought Farhan did a very good job with what he had. Like I feel it wasn't his fault that the film, cause I feel like if he was given a good script in terms of not only plot, but also dialogue, he could have been one of his best performances in terms of like if he had that, but he had such like a vanilla script. It was like each thing that came on the script was like just the further along the script, nothing, it was like, none of it was organic. I knew every single thing that was coming. So like if this was like directed and written by like Anurag, it would have been like all natural dialogue. There would have been some creativity in the writing. And I feel like he put enough into it that it would have been elevated obviously with a much better script. I think as far as he's concerned, you're letting him off the hook per se. So here's why. First of all, Also, did you change the language? Did I change the language? No, the original language that was on Amazon was English for some reason, dubbed English. Oh, I didn't watch it. Dubbed. Okay, good. I watched it in Hindi, good. The original line, I turned it on. It was English dubbed. And I was like, what the hell is going on? Like it would do with Sacred Games. Right, right, right. No, no, no, I'm not changing it. I was just making sure. No, it was that, but I did notice and it could have been just, I don't know. And the first, there were a couple of moments where the sound wasn't matching. And I think that just may have been a technical glitch. I don't know if that was the finished copy. But here's why I think he wasn't Farhan off the hook. And if you've been around a while, if you're a stupid baby who's been here a while, you know we love Farhan Akhtar. We think he's a really solid actor, bog milk a bog proof that he could portray a character from history in a way where he fully embodies the disciplines of the character as an athlete, which is one of the reasons we were so excited. The reason I feel like he's, you're letting off the hook per se is he produced this thing. So he's got the control. If he didn't like the script, he could change it because he's the one right in check. Oh yeah, oh no, I'm not talking about the film as a whole, the film as a whole, I agree. But his performance, I thought he did a good job in terms of like he was my favorite part of the entire thing. Like I could watch him and I was like, at least he's putting on a good performance. I'm not talking like it's not like Fafa and anything, but he's at least put on a good performance. And I thought it could have been way better if like I think the creative team in the writing did any kind of create, like produced anything that wasn't just everything that's been in a boxing film ever before. Yeah, the story and the script, there wasn't anything original about it. None. There was nothing original about the fight sequences. All the cliches. Yeah, the fight sequences, as far as the way they were shot, we saw that 40 years ago in all the Rocky films. Yeah. And also there were some technical aspects of the fighting that were annoying to me because they weren't accurate when you, the reason I can say I know that is because the only thing besides baseball I have followed closely as a sport, really closely is combat sports. Boxing as a kid. And then when MMA we got really big, but I still three or four nights a week, I'm watching either kickboxing, MMA or occasionally some boxing. So there were some technical aspects. He, there were two, it felt some, you know what it felt like to me sometimes for him? Ben Stiller got on this kick where he was doing films and it felt like he was doing them just cause he wanted everybody to see how in shape he was. Ben Stiller? Ben Stiller. He did a couple of films where he was built. Really? And he wanted everybody to know he could do it. Yeah. Ben Stiller. What films are you talking about? Well, first of all, Tropic Thunder. Oh, that's a comedy though. I know, but. I love that movie. I do too. I love that movie. But in that era is when he got in this kick of doing things where he was pumped up and butt. The other thing is the believability factor, that's the biggest thing for, I've got 11 notes about the lack of believability. And one of them is I, okay, granted, we don't know about the boxing circles in India, but nobody his age is going to be taken seriously as a starting off boxer ever. He was definitely too old. He would be laughed out of the gym as what are you even thinking about? Unless you're Floyd Mayweather fighting a YouTuber. Yeah. But then at that point, you're Floyd Mayweather. Yeah. Yeah. So the person I actually, I felt like I wanted to say, you know, if she was watching, I'd say I see you is Ronald, if I'm mispronouncing your name. The love interest? Yeah. I felt like she did even, I felt like she for me did the best with what she was given. Well, I thought her, and I liked the coach as well for the most part. I saw some of the writing that happened with every single character. A lot of it was extremely cheesy. It just can't get past that. It's difficult to really appreciate they underutilized to the fucking fullest VJ Roz. My God. Like he comes on, I'm like, oh cool, VJ Roz. I know. He's doing a great job. I know. I love his character. He's in four scenes, probably total of four minutes, and they bring him back at the end like I'm supposed to have cared in the beginning. Like why is VJ Roz back? I know. I know. Oh, it was so frustrating. Yeah. The fact like, this was one of the most, I don't, it feels like they didn't put any creativity in the writing. No, it felt heavy-handed. Yeah. And then I mean that in a good way for a fighting film. It felt heavy-handed. Even for example, when the coach and his buddy start talking about ordering Chinese food and that becomes a religious bigotry issue, I felt like that trying to infuse the religious bigotry underneath it, I knew the issue way ahead of time. I was like, okay, yeah, we're gonna have an issue by the fact that he doesn't know that's the dad and he doesn't know. There's a religion. Yeah, yeah. He comes in in the end and of course he wins in the end. He comes back after five years, apparently wins it all. Perfectly good shape after three months. There's apparently no other good boxers. Yeah, and I also felt we could have found a more creative way to kill her than just a bridge collapsing. Yeah. I would have, there are so many different things I think would have contributed to this and had such high hopes for it. And you have to compare films about fighting in any way, shape or form with the other films that have come in the past that have been so great. And the ones we just listed before, the list I went through of Cinderella and Warrior, and what makes them great, isn't just. I mean, it's kind of a foregone. The fighting sequences and the technical aspects have to be believable. That's just like, that's us to give the film a pulse. But this didn't even have good fights. Really? Exactly. There was a few good moments at the end in terms of some of the fights, but that's about it. No. And I'm like nitpicking at that point and I'm like, I'm trying to find something good with the fights. Really? Because like with a boxy film you at least need to have a good fight. Right. And I feel like they cut away a lot of the times. They used the ropes to distract a lot of the punching was to the, so many times punches were thrown where it was intentionally just, I'm going to punch you in the shoulder. Yeah. I'm going to jab your glove, not your face. Yeah. So, and again, we root for movies. We don't want movies to be bad. You know we were looking forward to this and wanted to be good. We want every movie we see to be spectacular. We don't want a bad movie to be made. But even there was nothing, I don't have any notes at all for cinematography, art directions, score. The score was, I think bad. I did not like the score. It was too melodramatic at times. And all the songs in there, didn't need them. They were forgettable. Yeah, the musical numbers. I agree. Didn't need them and they were all forgettable. Yeah, I agree. And I didn't like, like cause a lot of times they did it in Drisheum as well. Drisheum too. Yes. Where they tried to put this big emotional thing behind what should bring out your emotion. I was like, stop it. Right. Please. So I just, like I just don't know what, if they were just trying to put out a boxing movie maybe? Like there was like, we have Farhan. I want to do a boxing film. Who cares about the rest? I don't, I just don't think Farhan would do that. I didn't think he was a guy, you know? Here's the thing. So some of you may even put this in the comments. We know he's 47, okay? We know he's in spectacular shape for a man of his age. And that if there was ever a time in his life where he's gonna do a film where he gets to play a fighter, maybe he has dreamed all of his life to do a boxing film. Freaking do it. I get it. Make a boxing film. However, what I was expecting from the trailer, I was genuinely thinking that this guy was a legit down and out guy. Like even in Rocky, he's too old and he's 27. Yeah. You know? He's like a washed up has been at 27. So I was expecting maybe this guy to have been like a Mike Tyson, really bad part of town. Really bad kid who grew up and is beyond the age of a Mike Tyson. No one ever gave him a shot, but he was heavy handed. And like in Warrior, he goes into the place and out of nowhere, he just knocks the crap out of some contender and everybody goes, who look, who is that? And you get this story of a guy that should have had a shot and you're rooting for him. And the girlfriend is the only one who sees it. And she has to convince her dad, the coach, I see something in him. Yeah, but he's a, he's just, he wouldn't bring in the religious aspects of who he is as a Muslim. And then get him to the place where he actually loses. Yeah. But had a shot. And the end is they're in love with each other cause ultimately it was about her belief in him that got him to change his life. As opposed to he's gonna throw this fight, the next scene, he got caught for that while he's going up the escalator. And he's so easily through it. It just, it just everything was too easy. Yeah. It was extremely predictable. Yeah. Extremely. Like they just watched all the other boxing films and tried to piece it together and be like, yeah, we'll put that in there. Like, that's all I can say. It's like extremely average to mediocre film. But I did for my takeaway from this as far as the thing I liked most, which is there wasn't much that I liked. I saw the potential in and I saw this in the trailers. I saw both of them, but we expect that from Farhan cause we know him. But since I don't know her very well, I see her, I see an actress there that if she's given something of substance and given something that's written really, really well, I think she could shine brightly. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. I think she definitely had a great presence. Yeah. I think if this was in the hands of somebody who would make it a grittier film, it could have been there. Obviously Farhan can definitely bring a performance. At least believable. Yeah. But this was just- Grit would have been a nice addition, you know? Yeah. Especially for fighters. It just seemed like they just wanted to put out a boxing film and they didn't really care. Yeah. It's unfortunate because I was really looking, I even said in the trailer, I was like, this looks like it could be the best film of the year. Yeah. Did not. I was ready to put songs in my playlist from this thing. Nope. But that's not happening. Unfortunately. Unfortunately. So sorry. We love you Farhan. Yeah. Oh, we love you Farhan. We really do. Please come talk to us for one. Yeah. And let us know what the next Farhan Akhtar film should be that we should watch. Because we've actually only seen what? Two or three. Three or something? This, this, obviously, Bog Mokobog. He was in, what was the last one we just saw? Luck by Chance. Luck by Chance. And then the other one- Deborah. He's in Deborah. And he's also in, we've seen at least five. At least five Farhan films. At least five. But obviously he's been around a long time. We need to see a lot more. So let us know what you thought about this film and what should be the next Farhan Akhtar film we watch down below.