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Uncut Gems Movie Review



Uncut Gems might be the greatest performance of all time for Adam Sandler. He is what you called at the pinnacle of his game. I didn’t expect something this serious and notable performance from him looking back into his filmography of comedy movies. The Safdie brothers create an engaging, nerve wrecking and gripping tale of betrayal and greed.

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The movie starts off with an in depth zoom of an big opal found on a Ethopian mines which further zooms out into the colonoscopy of Howard Ratner, a New York based diamond dealer played by Sandler, who is working his way to land himself a million dollar deal by auctioning the same black opal. The story progresses as Howard tries to balance his diamond business, dealing with loan sharks and his marriage. Does he succeed in making it big in the end?
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The movie keeps you on edge of your seat with gripping plot twists in each corner. 
It is quite weird but we start to feel for the character every deal he makes every bet he takes we start to root for the character and his ultimate safety. Even being quite an ass we begin to invest in his journey and feel for the character. The complementary background score gives you the feel of impending action about to happen on screen. All in all The Safdie brothers create a retro New York filled with cons, loan sharks and superstitious basketball stars leaving us with a gripping tale of greed. Not to forget the movie also ranks 7th for the most F-words in movie history.

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For my Nepali fellow friends not a spoiler perse but the movie’s theme stands quite similar to that of “Pashupati Prasad”.

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