The new movie “Challengers” is a movie about 3 tennis players, Tashi Donaldson, a top woman tennis player played by Zendaya, Patrick Zweig played by Josh O’Connor and Art Donaldson played by Mike Faist, who are up and coming and in the case of Zweig a struggling-living-in-his car tennis pro.

The story is about a bi-sexual love triangle about the 3 tennis players, with Tashi, after a major leg injury helping to train at different times, both Donaldson and Zweig. The most obvious big problem with this film is the constant and insane flashbacks. From 9 months earlier to 13 years earlier, to the present day, to ahead 3 months, way too many times There was never a thought just to tell this story sequentially. This many flashbacks are just annoying and frustrating to watch.

There is also no measurable and contiguous story, just a series of disconnected scenes that lead to one of the worst endings I have ever seen. For this movie, the relatively high ratings make no sense, but we have all seen that before, “Poor Things”, and the horrendous, “Everything Everywhere All At Once” are just two insane examples of horrible movies that the critics graded highly. Within the first hour, I was already into “watch-looking” mode, waiting for this all to be over. There is some good acting, mostly wasted by a very bad screenplay.

The Rotten Tomatoes 88% rating is way too high, with the audience rating a more understandable 75% and my rating only 60% only for some of the acting, with this one a major miss.