‘Rule Breakers’ Review: TRUE-Life Drama About All-Girls Afghan Robotics Team Hits ITS ITSPIRATIONAL MARKS

This Latest Movie from Angel Studios Demonstrates that the Distributor’s Interest in Releasing Films that Veer Away from Proselytizing is Paying Off Artistic. Relating the True-Life Story of the Afghan Dreamers, A Group of Young Women Who GundBreakingly Participated in International Robotics Competitions, Bill Gutntentag’s Rule Breakers Proves Inspiralational in the Best Sense of the Word. The Film’s Release Is Perfectly Timed for Women’s History Month.

Scripted by the Two-Time Oscar-Winning Filmmaker (for the Documentary Shorts Twin Towers an You don’h have to die), along with jason brown and elaha mahboob, The Film Centers on Roya Maboseri (Nikolhl Boosheri), whose interest in computers wasn’t exactly encourogged in her nathanti. SCENE IN WHICH She’s Nearly Assassinated.

WHEN She WAS A YOUNG STUDENT, She WAS ORDERED TO LEAVE the CLASSROOM ALONG WITH The Other Girls WHEN The Teacher Began Instrucking the Boys to How to Use. She’s Shown Forlornly Peeking in Throw the Window, Desperate to Learn A Subject That Fascinates Her But Is Denied to Her Gender.

Several Years Later (The Film Suffers at Times from Itfulsing Timeline), She’s A Star University Student Who Strikes a Decol A Friendsa Cofé Owner (Nassar Memarzia for his male customers if he’ll let her practice on it every every morning before he opens up.

Not Much Later She’s Not Only Become An Expert with The Technology, But Has Also Started Her Own Successful Software Company and OPENED A Computer School for Girls. Their Interest is Deeper than she expected; WHEN She DECIDES TO CREATE An all-Girls Robotics Team and Seeks Four Members, Dozens of Girls Show Up To Audition.

Needless to Say, The Team Faces Numeros Hurdles, Including the Resistance of the Girls’ Families to Let Them Participate. But Roya Proves As Persuasive As She Is Determined, As Illustrated in One of the Film’s Best Scenes, WHICH FINDS HER CONVINKING ONE SKEPTICAL FOTHERE PURSE.

The ObstaCles Continue Even After the Team Proves Their Mettle. Preparing to Travel to America to Participate in A Competition, The Girls Are Denied Visas for Such Reasons As Hving Recently Traveled To Iran to Visit A ​​Relative. After Roya Appeals to a sympathetic American Journalist to Write About Their Press, The Story Becomes An International Media Sensation. And Even Then, Traveling at the Last Minute, They Nearly Unable to Get On A Sold-Out Flight Until Several Volunteer to Give Up Their Seats.

The ENSUING POLOT DEAMENTS AS The TEAM Travels AROUND OF THE PARTICIPATING IN ROBOTICS COMPETICS STRIKE Both Familiar and Fresh Beats, The Former Stemming From. Circumstans Involved. For Instance, After One Competition, The Girls Excitedly Sign Sign of Competing Male Players and Get Theirs Signned in Return, Leading To Shaming by Their Relatives and Violant.

There’s Even the Obligatory Competition Montage Scored to Upbeat Music, in this Case The Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling.”

But Despite It Occasonally Stale Elements, The Film Succeeds Movingly Thanks to the Inherent Power of Its Narrative and the Terrific Performances by Boosher and The Four Young Acter Hosseinzadeh, Sara Malal Rowe, and Mariam Saraj) As the Team Members. Ali fazal (Death on the nile, Victoria & Abdul) Shows up Briefly but Appalingly as An Indian-American Businessman Who Provides Moral and Financial Support, and Phoeebe Waller-Bridge Displays a Warm, Winning Presenter Asance ASA compence AsPet.

Rule Breakers Proves scattershot in ittstelling and features One or Two Too Many Last-Minute crises for it Plucky heroines to overcome. But by the Time the Titular Characters Enter the Climactic Competition with Their Ingenious Invention of a Landmin-Detecting Robot that have the potential to savends of L Laves AROUND, YOU’RE. The End Credits Provide A Satisfying Coda Information Us About the Real-Life Figures Involved, Including Roya Mahboob Being Named One of Time Magazine’s 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.