why wasn't this movie under 2 hours

Rating: Null/10 (9 December 2002)

The pacing and editing of this movie is horrible. From the beginning, where it takes forever to see the first fight of the film, why wasn't all this cut out. The first half hour is so boring that it loses your attention, and it only goes downhill from there. From this movie, it makes Ali seem like such a hipocrit for being this really religious guy, but yet he's always cheating on his wives and swearing. I'm sure this movie left a lot out about Ali's life, but I don't think it left him looking like a champ. Will Smith had a good acting performance, but that is the only good thing to say about this movie.

FINAL VERDICT: Boring; too long. This should have been some 10 episode series on HBO in order to really show Ali's life. Not worth watching; I'm sure an Ali biography show would be better.