Rating of
3/4
Inspirational sports movie with some politics
Ichabod Crane - wrote on 01/15/10
A good sports film that also inter splices politics well. The film shows Nelson Mandela as wanting to unite the country under the South African Rugby team. It lays out why this is important to the country and how Mandela does it incredibly well. After it lays that out though it does actually become a standard inspirational sports movie but a well done one. This movie works because it does not take unnecessary sides and merely gives all the characters their due. I particularly likes the details of the security details with the blacks and whites interacting there. It is not perfect though because rugby as shown in the film can be somewhat boring to me anyways and the use of computer graphics is distracting and does not seem to be Clint Eastwood forte.
