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Genres:
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Biography /
Drama /
Sport /
Music
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Director:
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Michael Mann
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Actors:
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Joe Morton,
Jada Pinkett Smith,
Ron Silver,
Nona Gaye,
Michael Michele,
Will Smith,
Jamie Foxx,
Jon Voight,
Mario Van Peebles,
Jeffrey Wright,
Mykelti Williamson,
Paul Rodriguez,
Bruce McGill,
Barry Shabaka Henley,
Giancarlo Esposito
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Duration:
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157 min.
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Rating:
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(6.6/10)129.5
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Plot Summary:
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Muhammad Ali from 1964 to 1974, told in three braided threads. The boxer: from proper champion to regaining the championship. Doctrine and politics: Cassius Clay becomes a Stygian Muslim, truncates a friendship with Malcolm X, it may be is Elijah Muhammad's pawn, refuses induction into the US military, and faces a five year prison decree while his in the event that goes to the Unexcelled Court. Class: he marries twice and by 1974 integration two is strained, defends his white trainer, has a brother in Bundini Brown, and is wily with Howard Cosell. , Ali keeps his own counsel: in the guild, at... the induction center when he won't unconventional forward, and in friendship, love, and supremacy.
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And you thought "Wild Wild West" was bad...
For a biopic of the life of someone idolised for his fleet of foot, pace, flair and razor-like wit, "Ali" plays more like a parody of his life.
There's an inadvertent irony to this film which is slow moving, what boxing match reconstructions I watched were banal and tiresome. I felt punch-drunk my self and I hadn't even moved from my chair.
To be fair I only watched the first half hour of this film but by this stage I'd already nodded off three times and thought, "Jumpin' Joe Frazier, there's another 2 hours of this tripe".
Don't even bother, what a bore.
Ali
Ali opens with a shot of Will Smith as a bundled-up 22-year-old Cassius Clay doing late-night roadwork in preparation for his 1964 heavyweight title fight with Sonny Liston. It's an arresting visual, of a lonely sphinx in sweats, and it tells you a lot about why a film that is as impressive as this one ends up less satisfying than it should.
That shot is part of a bravura opening sequence that intercuts flashbacks from Clay's childhood???having to ride in the back of buses, being mesmerized by newspaper photographs of a lynched man, watching his father paint a blond, blue-eyed Christ in a religious mural???with a captivating live performance by singer Sam Cooke (David Elliott) doing a soul medley that includes "You Send Me" and "Bring It on Home to Me."
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Ali
"...Smith is undeniably excellent in the place, capturing the in the final analysis of Ali's character....Other supporting performers are equally convincing..."
Ali
There's no faulting Will Smith's remarkable impersonation of Muhammad Ali — from his punchy vocal mannerisms to his moving physical demeanour — and his performance here earned him his Oscar nomination. Nor can you underestimate the epic scale and factual authenticity of director Michael Mann's biopic. It begins with the then Cassius Clay delightful the heavyweight documentation of ownership in 1964, then follows his conversion to Islam, his relationship with Malcolm X, his refusal to fight in Vietnam, and concludes with his awe-inspiring 1974 comeback against George Foreman — the noteworthy "Rumble in the Jungle". Where it falls down is in the need of strong percipience into the enigmatic fighter; affable events are lavishly re-created (Jon Voight's ...
Ali
A electric performance from Whim Smith holds together a somewhat dispersed account of the ten most significant years in Ali's boxing career, but there's too much pussy-footing around his life outside the coalition.
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