Is God awful a rating.

Rating: 1/10 (29 December 2001)

This movie made no sense. Its starts with Sam Cooke singing loud in nightclub and I could not hear any talking over most of the music blaring. Ali is supposed to be the champ but he lives in a rat dive apt and is broke yet they never say if the muslims stole all of his money.
This movie spends way too much time on the Muslim crap, which isn't too popular after Sept 11th. And he goes through women like toliet paper. There are flashback scenes that make no sense and are we really to believe he get a divorce because his wife wore makeup.
They should have spent much more time on his wild press conferences. They left out the one when he fights Joe Frazier. Ali's greatest comments is when he was insulting Joe Frazier and it Mann only gave it 5 seconds of screen time. Instead he spends the entire movie around the Muslim influence.

He gets off the plane in Zaire, and the people immeditately start chanting Ali Bumaye which is not accurate. Ali started that chant himself. When we were kings was a documetary that is about 100x better than ALI.

Mykilti Williamson is awful as Don King. Ving Rhames was much better in the tv movie Only in America. I cannot imagine Mykilti in anything other than Bubba telling Forrest about lemon and pineapple shrimp.
And I could not understand one thing Jamie Foxx said as a worthless Ali corner man. Ron Silver was not believable as Angelo Dundee and Paul Rodriguez doesn't have one line as Ferdie Pachenko.
Mann should have included the fun things surrounding Ali including the great Dean Martin Roast to Ali. Instead this movie is a downer.
I was really looking forward to seeing this movie and was totally unimressed