Almost only box

Rating: 6/10 (11 June 2012)

This could be the story of Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali the fighter for Afro-Americans rights. But it turns out to stay almost only as the story of the world heavyweight boxing champion with a few references now and then to his political activity and positions and only through some utterances of his and never through any actions. The movie even ignores all of his life after 1974 (the year when he won the world title again in Zaire) despite the fact that his political and social actions went on. Therefore as a movie about boxing it's a passable one and will certainly be most appreciated by boxing fans but it has enormous gaps in what concerns the personality of Ali mainly in his political,social and religious aspects particularly those which resulted from his early conversion to Islamism. In biographic terms this movie is therefore a disappointment.