Baywatch Movie Review (2017) | No One Could Save it from Drowning

I wasn’t expecting much when I went to watch the Baywatch movie. In my defense, all I needed was a good laugh. Somehow I was convinced even though the movie wasn’t going to be that great, it would be funny at least. But boy was I disappointed. It is just downright cheesy, daft and so not funny.

Characters in Baywatch Movie

All these characters that are created just to pay homage to the original just seem so dispensable. From the trailers, I got the impression that Zac Efron was going to be funny throughout, and that he would keep doing weird stuff. But I was surprised to find his character Matt Brody so detached and unplugged that it sucked out the very definition of fun from him.

Rocky (Dwayne Johnson) just tries real hard to fill in those Mitch shoes, and he somehow looks good as a leader too. But then there is that terrible plot, so vapid and hollow that you can’t take anything going on seriously. We have Alexandra Daddario portraying Summer Quinn here posed against Zac. It’s the second time Rocky and Alexandra have done a movie together the first being San Andreas.

Priyanka Chopra as Victoria Leeds is the least formidable villain ever chosen for a movie, and she has the most forgettable minders ever. To throw in some rib-tickling humour we have Jon Bass playing the character of Ronnie Greenbaum, but the screenplay is so badly written that even he couldn’t save the movie from drowning. His love interest is CJ Parker played by Kelly Rohrbach.

The character Ilfenesh Hadera plays is probably one that you wouldn’t remember. She ends up becoming a mere sidekick to The Rock.

David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson find their cameos in the movie but they end up being the worst cameos ever written. Where’s the subtlety, guys?

Direction of Baywatch Movie

Can’t believe it’s Seth Gordon, the director of Horrible Bosses, who has directed this pointless piece. Has he suddenly lost his sense of humour? Every scene he creates seems like an unnecessary anchor to the storyline. Some frames are simply there just waiting for a ridiculous thing to happen.

There is no element of surprise, there is no thrill. It is a dead run all along. There are quite candidly very few moments that genuinely crack you up. Half of the things are too vacuous to believe. There are so many times you end up shaking your head when you see all their doltish acts going on.

The only good thing about the flick is that it is headed somewhere. Even though there are dozens of gags and cheap thrills lying around at odd hours, you will be satisfied to see it reach the end.

You can watch it if you are a big Rocky or Zac Efron fan.

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The Final Verdict

At the end of it, the Baywatch movie is just as shallow as it was supposed to be. With all the hot bodies running around on the beach, deliberately trying to be provocative and Zac doing us the honors showing us his redonkulous fatless cuts, it almost makes you want to hit the gym twice or thrice a day.

Baywatch is absolutely bland, written in glib phrases and packed so poorly that it makes you want to regret having watched it in the first place. The movie is like a 1 hour 56 min typification of our current world, where memes are jokes, hot bods are cool, getting drunk and puking in the pool is too, need I say more?

In a world of reboots, where the success rate of movies has been utterly awful, Baywatch movie is yet another gamble that goes wrong. Maybe it is time to stop with the retelling and focus more on some original ideas.

You can check out the trailer of Baywatch movie:

Baywatch

6

Direction

5.8/10

Plot

6.1/10

Editing

5.6/10

Screenplay

6.0/10

Humour

6.3/10

Pros

• Humour is okayish

Cons

• Pathetic flick
• Absolutely Rubbish
• Bad Direction
• Poorly Written

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