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1952, New York. Marty Mauser, a 23-year-old ambitious and talented table tennis player, is working temporarily as a shoe salesman to save up for a ticket to the UK. His goal is to become the first American to win the British Open. His boss offers him a managerial position, but the young man dreams only of the championship title and fame. Upon learning that his boss has left town for the weekend and didn’t leave him his monthly salary, Marty, threatening his colleague with a gun, forces him to hand over the money owed to him from the safe, quits his job, and heads to London to compete in the tournament.

Review 4K Movie

When I first heard about this movie, I thought it was just another run-of-the-mill biopic about a famous person’s rise to stardom and their gradual decline. You know, like *Raging Bull*, *The Aviator*, *Tony Against Everyone*, and 90% of all musical biopics, including *Unknown* with the same Chalamet. And it’s not that it’s a bad trope, but these days it’s gotten seriously overused. And it seems like movies with this kind of plot have nothing new to offer. Fortunately, ‘Marty the Magnificent’ turned out to be a completely different kind of movie.

It only feels that way for the first half hour. When you see the main character working as a salesman in a shoe store, and how, by a twist of fate, he ends up at the World Table Tennis Championships in England. At that moment, I’m like, ‘Oh, okay, he’ll win the championship, start a romance with a star, gradually spiral out of control, get hooked on alcohol and drugs, and blah-blah-blah—we’ve been through all this before.’

However, all of this turned out to be just a red herring, and in reality, the rest of the film is devoted not to Marty’s future life, but only to a one-week period in his biography, where everything went awry because of his own arrogance. The film is more of an adventurous tragicomedy than a full-fledged biographical drama. Something like ‘Uncut Gems’ by the same Safdie, only this time he decided to pump the film full of steroids.

‘Marty the Magnificent’ runs for almost 2.5 hours, and during that time it never gets boring thanks to its breakneck pace. All the problems that have piled up for the protagonist come crashing down one after another, and he is no longer able to cope with them because each time he makes a decision that is more foolish and reckless than the last. And all of this bursts like a bubble in an instant, driving Marty to the brink of despair.

It’s amazing how the tension—from the character’s return to New York all the way to the long-awaited rematch with Koto Endo—never lets up but only continues to build. Josh Safdie has truly demonstrated a masterclass in how to create suspense in a film that isn’t a horror movie or just a thriller. Here, the protagonist is gradually backed into a corner and even forced to make humiliating compromises. During this time, Marty goes through a long journey, transforming from a cocky, arrogant gambler into a desperate bum, up to his ears in debt. Again, it’s the same formula as in *Uncut Gems*, but more effective and dynamic.

That said, I haven’t once mentioned in this review how the ping-pong matches are filmed in this movie.
But the whole point is that there are actually... very few of them in a sports movie. They don’t show training sessions or analysis of the opponent’s tactics; they don’t even show how the character hones his skills. And all because... it isn’t necessary. The main focus here isn’t table tennis, but the drama surrounding Marty’s troubled life. Yes, these matches are filmed with the appropriate level of cinematography, but they look far more interesting when you understand the context. The final match at the film’s climax isn’t just a duel between Marty and the world’s best champion; it’s a battle on which everything—his entire life—depends. If he loses, he’ll lose not just his status, but EVERYTHING. And because of these high stakes, the final match becomes one of the most tense in the history of cinema, even though you’d think ping-pong would be much harder to film than boxing or racing.

After watching it, I understood where such high praise came from. This is a MAGNIFICENTLY filmed and written movie, where you witness the protagonist’s moral growth from a reckless slacker to a man who begins to value his life more and takes only those risks that will be justified. Timothée Chalamet deserves all the praise for this role, as it bears absolutely no resemblance to the apathetic and emotionally reserved guy we see in interviews. His character is vibrant, immediately capturing the audience’s attention, fiery, and, despite all that, ultimately burning himself the most. It’s a very vivid and noteworthy performance.

Josh Safdie, unlike his brother, who directed the far more controversial and ambiguous *Crush*, has proven that he understands the language of cinema perfectly and is capable of creating a spectacular spectacle that is not devoid of dramatic depth and meaning. A film that grips you from start to finish, while remaining a smart exploration of where reckless passion can lead you.