Tries too hard to be like When We Were Kings

Rating: Null/10 (3 March 2002)

STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A Meal Instead*Avoid At All Costs
With Will Smith as the main star portraying the main character,you expect (and kind of want)a Hollywoodised biographical affair,like Dragon:The Bruce Lee Story.What you really get here is just an extended version of the above 1997 docu-flick.Though the George Foreman and Sonny Liston fights are captured to invigorating effect,any mention of the European Henry Cooper bout is conspicuously absent,though the film is so overlong,you wonder whether this is a bad or a good thing.Smith is very emersed and sincere in his performance,his off screen aliance with the real man obviously paying off,but the jazz music playing as the soundtrack should put anyone with epilepsy off.***