Ali... we're no closer to understanding him.

Rating: 5/10 (26 September 2005)

I'm sure when Michael Mann walked off set he made a good film, but in the version I saw there was no fluidity. I suppose it's a case of a 4/5 hour film time being cut down to under 3 hours.
Will Smith (without make up) is Will Smith! You can't see Ali. A fatter bloke should have played the corner man "Boudein". Also the haircut on "Gerry Quarry" was superb ! I was hoping his hair would spin round on his head.
Where was Ken Norton, or for that matter Henry Cooper or Joe Bugner! We never got to know Ali....why he became a boxer? did he love it.. or hate it. Would he kill a man in the ring, if he had to?