The critics screening for Baywatch was recently held in the US. Sadly, the Hollywood film experts do not seem impressed at all. However, our Desi girl Priyanka Chopra managed to get some good feedback from the international critics. Her negative avatar as Victoria Leeds impressed the critics and we have proof.
The Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron and Priyanka Chopra starrer has failed badly at the US box-office, becoming one of the lowest rated film in Hollywood. Amid all bad news, PeeCee has stolen the limelight from her co-stars emerging as critics favourite out of the lot.
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Let’s have a look at some Baywatch movie reviews from leading international publications.
Forbes magazine
"Chopra has fun as the baddie, but she stays in the background until the end of the movie and really only gets one big scene at the end of the picture. The showdown is the best moment in the film, one which cleverly plays on gender-specific action movie tropes while showing its female villain no gender-based charity. I wish more movies had female super villains and to its credit, Baywatch doesn't treat it as a big deal."
Telegraph
"The plot, about an Indian gangster queen (Priyanka Chopra) importing drugs along the coast, is wafer-thin and perfunctory at best. And yet, somehow, Gordon stretches the movie's running time to two hours, beefing it up with a fatuous romantic subplot and not one, but two heinously long-winded penile gags ripped straight from the Farrelly brothers' textbook of gross-out comedy. The women, meanwhile, are there purely to up the film's phwoar factor: Kelly Rohrbach as CJ Parker and Alexandra Daddario as Summer Quinn wink and nudge but still say – and wear – very little."
Guardian
"The swimwear couture hasn’t moved on since the 90s, either: cut so high at the hip you wonder if there was a lycra shortage; unzipped at the front to show maximum cleavage. Even Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra, the underused villain of the piece, looks like she was contractually obliged to show as much flesh as permissible."
Elle Magazine
"Priyanka Chopra, though, as real-estate titan villainness Victoria Leeds, makes everything around her look like a really, really nice car commercial."
Hollywood Reporter
"The plot, such as it is, concerns the Baywatch team springing into action to counter a wave of drugs sweeping the area, masterminded by resort owner/villainess Victoria Leeds (Priyanka Chopra, Quantico). That the lifeguards are not actually responsible for law enforcement, as they’re periodically reminded by an aggravated local cop (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II of The Get Down) proves little deterrent to their enthusiasm for crime-solving."
Baywatch is slated to release in India on June 2. Lets see if Priyanka Chopra's Hollywood debut will manage to impress the Indian audience.
