Part of the heavyweight boxer's biography, Muhammad Ali

Rating: 8/10 (4 March 2002)

Excellent film, which deserves an OSCAR, let's hope this will happen. The film is really good because it shows several interesting things of history of USA, politics, Muslims and boxing, including corruption in it. In the film it is seen how Malcolm X was criminally murdered, the problems of Ali with the Muslim's organization, his troubles with his wives, and with USA Government, particularly when he decided not to go to Vietnam. This also includes what he said openly about the war and his feelings about racial discrimination in his country. His second wife said two interesting statements: the first one regarding the former president of Zaire, Mr Mobutu, who took plenty of money from the match between Ali and Foreman, and also about the way Don King was becoming rich. According to her, King was a man talking about the opportunities of black people but behaving as a rich white man. The shortcomings of the film were: 1. It did not show anything about the development of Ali when he was amateur and became Olympic champion in Rome 1960. 2. It failed to indicate or suggest who really prepared the murder of Malcolm X.
In any case, I consider the film good in his message and plot, and worth to obtain a good prizes for it.