Review of The Flying Scotsman (2006) by Michael D — 26 Nov 2007

I loved it but then again it pertains to my heritage so you may think otherwise.

This review of The Flying Scotsman (2006) was written by Michael D on 26 Nov 2007.

The Flying Scotsman has generally received positive reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of The Flying Scotsman

Review of The Flying Scotsman (2006)

By William Arnold (1,101) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 02 Mar 2017

Obree's psychology is fascinating and, even though the competitive scenes mostly involve him racing against himself in a spectator-free indoor…

Read Review

Review of The Flying Scotsman (2006)

By Paul D (6,077) on 27 Mar 2010

Fairly mundane film…

Read Review

Review of The Flying Scotsman (2006)

By Navin P (45) on 03 Jan 2010

The story of a English..er, make that Scottish cyclist who's attempting to break a world record, with a cycle made out of, among other thing,…

Read Review

Review of The Flying Scotsman (2006)

By Paul M (2,133) on 27 Apr 2011

I love cycling I have never followed or practice racing but it is a sport that I have practiced all my life and it's good to see the strugles…

Read Review

Review of The Flying Scotsman (2006)

By Themis L (1) on 01 Oct 2008

I had a bit of trouble understanding all the dialogue - the spoke a little too fast - but it was really inspirational, and definitely encouraged…

Read Review

Review of The Flying Scotsman (2006)

By Walter M (1,360) on 15 May 2009

[font=Century Gothic]In The Flying Scotsman, Graeme Obree(Jonny Lee Miller) wants to break the one hour bicycling record that has stood for…

Read Review

Review of The Flying Scotsman (2006)

By Paul S (1,717) on 07 Nov 2008

Trying to be both a sports movie and biopic and failing at both…

Read Review

Review of The Flying Scotsman (2006)

By Andy L (621) on 17 Aug 2009

This had the potential to be dull, but it turned out to be quite a good little movie…

Read Review

Review of The Flying Scotsman (2006)

By Graham D (299) on 04 Sep 2008

I want say a word, U can not break anyone dreams by any rules or law. I always love to watch based on true story movie…

Read Review

Review of The Flying Scotsman (2006)

By Chris H (3,076) on 07 May 2012

I remember seeing Obree using his radical bike in the early 90's…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)

By Melissap (3) on 01 Nov 2005

This movie ranks at the top of the worst films I have ever seen! I kept waiting for it to get better but unfortunately it never did…

Read Review

Review of Once Were Warriors (1994)

By Robert N (248) on 28 Mar 2016

A film that's full of the subtle visual tricks film teachers love to point out (character X ruined the life of character Y, and so they stand…

Read Review

Review of Crash (2005)

By Ras (1) on 17 Jun 2005

Disgusting all the way around. Don't recommend it to anyone. Typical white mainstream media stereotypes of people of color…

Read Review

Review of Thumbsucker (2005)

By [Anonymous] (537) on 08 Feb 2006

I can't understand how anybody, least of all film critics, could have spent two hours of their time watching this and thinking their was something…

Read Review

Review of The Rules of Attraction (2002)

By Disco_Stew (1) on 13 Oct 2005

Rules Of Attraction is by far the worst movie I have ever seen in my entire life, I am still recovering from it…

Read Review

Review of Finder's Fee (2001)

By Sonia D (41) on 14 Jan 2007

Awful...the plot summary made the film look good but it was nothing like what was described…

Read Review

Review of City of Hope (1991)

By Roy O (154) on 05 Mar 2015

Well made story of intermingled people in a big city in the 90's. Corruption and greed, racial tension and crooked cops…

Read Review

Review of Hotel Very Welcome (2007)

By Cristina M (66) on 24 Aug 2008

The phone conversation is the best part of the movie, which doesn't say anything good about it…

Read Review

Review of Little Buddha (1993)

By Thomas K (624) on 04 Aug 2015

While I like everybody involved in this beautiful mess I've always been astounded that I made it all the way through this atrocious thing…

Read Review

Review of Human Nature (2001)

By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 11 Apr 2002

Smug and lacking in invention, it's just the opposite of Malkovich's enthralling mixture of behavioral acuity and brilliantly bizarre plotting…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

John Wick: Chapter 4

2023

78%170 Reviews

Mad Max: Fury Road

2015

83%1,378 Reviews

Split

2017

71%1,218 Reviews

Babylon

2022

68%144 Reviews

Midsommar

2019

69%207 Reviews

Deadpool 2

2018

76%1,635 Reviews

Joker

2019

81%299 Reviews

Past Lives

2023

84%62 Reviews

The Judge

2014

67%866 Reviews

Dark Waters

2019

76%68 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

The Flying Scotsman

2006

62%234 Reviews

The Awful Truth

1937

81%291 Reviews

20 30 40

2004

69%20 Reviews

The Champ

1979

73%202 Reviews

The Lego Movie

2014

80%1,032 Reviews

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan

2009

61%107 Reviews

Spider Baby

1967

70%164 Reviews

Avengers: Endgame

2019

86%432 Reviews

The Little Death

2014

62%93 Reviews

One Missed Call 2

2005

54%65 Reviews