CHALLENGERS-A+ Acting in a C- Film Makes a Movie to See with Zendaya

CHALLENGERS serves up some daunting challenges to entice you to watch a love triangle that centers around the game of love known as tennis. The hardest obstacle to handle is its lame script. However, this is netted within a faultless cast of handsome leads lead by the drop dead gorgeous Zendaya. Zendaya plays Tashi, the coquettish tennis competitor coveted by her two suitors, Art (Mike Faist) and Patrick (Josh O'Connor.  Art and Josh are young upstarts fighting their way up the professional tennis racket and have just won a major doubles tournament and sprawl over each other in their unfettered exuberance. Following their win, the two head to the women's singles finals where they're both totally smitten by Tashi's talents on the court as well as her comely looks. Zendaya has become the face for high end luxury companies including Valentino fashion, Lancome makeup and Bulgari jewelry. Nonetheless, she is much more than just a pretty face.  She's earned two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe. Zendaya is winning playing Tashi, a flirtatious and fierce up and coming tennis ace. Tashi's top notch athletic skills are no match for her savvy and business acumen. Still the girl wants to have fun. She's intrigued by the adoration of the two charming chums who are willing to throw the other under the bus to get her number. The film flashes back and forth in time revealing the fraught history of the three's shifting relationships. Tashi's relationship with one ends at the time she blows out her knee and any future career on the professional tennis circuit. The plot is cliche, yet the chemistry between all three is combustible and comprises a fast paced, intriguing film worth renting on Apple or Prime Video. O'Connor is a British actor best known for portraying Prince Charles in "The Crown" and Romeo in the recent PBS "Romeo and Juliet" production. He's charming, wheedling and infuriating as an immature 30 something whose tennis career is waning. Faist is an American actor that has garnered a Grammy, Daytime Emmy and nominations for a Tony and a British Academy Film Award. Hi's angelic good looks and diffident demeanor make him the perfect foil to O'Connor's swarthy good looks and domineering personality. All three, Zendaya, O'Connor and Faist make what could've been a scratch-less plot into something special with a lot of sexy tension on and off the tennis courts. I dare you to resist CHALLENGERS as it serves up sheepish grins along and unexpected spins on competition and provocation.