Review of Ali (2012) by Christopher G — 15 Nov 2009

I really didn't care for how this film was done. It was overly long and drawn out. The political aspects were numerous, but only somewhat interesting. I didn't like the use of music in this movie; there were 4 or 5 long montage shots and cuts with music playing in the background that I couldn't wait to end. At times, it even drowned out the dialogue. In a sports movie, it's usually important for the actual sports scenes to be gripping, but even though the ones in this movie seemed fairly realistic, they weren't that great. The closeup in-ring shaky cam was useless.

I wanted to like this so much more than I did, but it just wasn't that good.