GENRE: Drama/Biography
RATING: PG-13 for brief strong language
RUNTIME: 2 hours and 14 minutes
STARRING: Morgan Freeman (The Dark Knight)
Matt Damon (The Informant!)
DIRECTOR: Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino)
WRITER: Anthony Peckham (Sherlock Holmes)
PLOT: Nelson Mandela wants the national rugby team to win the World Cup to help his apartheid-torn land
FIVE OBSERVATIONS:
1 Morgan Freeman is captivating as Nelson Mandela. Love the accent. Love the glow in his eyes. Beautifully done.
2 I thought I would be annoyed by Matt Damon’s accent. I wasn’t. His eyebrows annoyed me. Watch his first meeting with Mandela; creepy eyebrows.
3 Even for a cliché underdog sports flick, this one still works. Emotional if not predictable.
4 Clint Eastwood uses the slow motion a little too often. Slow mo on the field to hear the grunts and cracking of ribs during rugby play = good. Slow mo during a celebration in a bar with patron jumping up and down = lame.
5 The score was powerful, but the music choices were laughable and reminded me of Michael W Smith sentimentalism.
RECOMMENDATION: Rent it on DVD
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