Will Smith carries the show

Rating: 5/10 (27 July 2002)

For a life story, this movie is both long and short. It doesn't span a very long time, only a few years, but is over 2 and a half hours in length. It gets really slow at times, especially when Smith and Mario Van Peebles as Malcolm X just sit around talking about their next exploit. The cinematography in the boxing scenes is just nauseauting. It gave me a killer headache :-)
But all in all, this isn't a bad movie. Will Smith certainly earned his Oscar nomination. He was marvelous as the bad-ass, do whatever-the-hell-I-wanna-do Cassius Clay. Jon Voight as Howard Cosell also provided for some excellent scenes, though I've heard better Cosell impressions.\
Definitely worth renting if you've got $3 burning a hole in your pocket.