Daveed (2025)
Angamaly Diaries' star Antony Pepe gets wasted in a Badly written, poorly made, wrongly edited, lame Boxing drama.
Who ever made this has zero knowledge about Boxing. Sparring without a Mouth guard, smoking after training, match approval without a weight class, this movie seems to take place in an alternative parallel universe. Zero authentic portrayal in a Boxing movie.
Anything good was from the child artist and the villain. Pepe tried his best to get lean, he should have put some muscle to match the villain, great transformation, though.
Shout out to the cameraman for cleverly hiding Pepe unfit belly in the final showdown. The editing was so lame, the makers should have atleast studied the top 5 boxing movies.
Also the casting was so pathetic, makers should have cast a younger actress, it was the role his wife, not his mother.
Writing should be have better, the match result was little over the top. No one, even with a retired MMA background can stand against a top class Boxer in the first round, especially when they are from different weight classes. The logical ending would have been Pepe's death, but the movie ended in a lighter tone.
Overall, a good effort but a major missed opportunity. I'd give this movie 5/10.