Review of Iron Will (1994) by A H — 02 Jan 2009

Back in the 90s, Disney kinda had a bad streak of movies.

I'll cut right to the chase on this one: [i]Iron Will[/i] doesn't even to begin to come across as enjoyable. It's highly predictable and generic, and when you watch it, you will get struck by boredom. Plus you get a feeling of sadness, knowing you're willingly (or maybe unwillingly) wasting precious life for this monstrosity. I was unwillingly wasting my life to this, for I had to watch it in school. Yeah, stay in school kids!

Iron Will is set in some empty, boring state like Wyoming or Montana or something, and we see our protagonist speeding along on his dogsled. I already started to felt bored, but as usual, I decided to give it a chance.

I can sum the rest of the movie right up, right here: he gets a college scholarship in Alaska or something, he doesn't wanna go because his home is Montana, but his dad says it's best for him. They wait. A couple days later he and his dad are racing sleds, the dad falls in the water. He dies. The kid is sad. He cries, and he acts strange. Then he hears of a dogsled race that will roll in some major green. He wants to go but his mom worries about losing her son. He promises he won't die. He gets to the race in Canada. After a whole bunch of being unaccepted from other people, the racers take him in, all except for this Swedish douche-bag and they race, he almost dies, he fights the Swede, the Swede dies in the race, he races, he wins, everyone's happy. Except for the viewer.

The above could've very well been my prediction for the movie. It's that predictable.

Iron Will: it's the movie you'd get your loud, obnoxious nephew to watch while your babysitting him on a beautiful sunny Saturday while your friends are at the mall. Fortunately, I was at school, so I was suffering in a group of fellow suffer-ers.