Will Smith as Muhammad Ali????

Rating: 6/10 (30 April 2005)

Skinny as a snake. Jug ears. Downright homely face. How can they cast him as the Greek god ali?? But actually WS did a pretty good job. He didn't look like ali but he looked muscular and almost handsome in this slowmoving but decent show.
Best parts were the supporting characters. Jon Voight was wonderful as the sympathetic jew howard cosell supporting the Muslim ali. The don king character was another memorable part and was aptly described by ali's second wife as "he talks black, lives white, and thinks green." And there were a host of unknown actors playing great boxers like liston, and quarry and frazier and esp foreman. The fight scenes were OK but of course, nothing can ever match the great fight of Rocky I.
This is not a bio as it covers just 64-74 but it does a good job of that.