Little interesting

Rating: 4/10 (20 February 2013)

Chariots of Fire, widely considered a classic, is first and foremost an overrated movie that, who knows how, won 4 Oscars including the coveted best picture and best screenplay.
The first 30 minutes are particularly tedious because of how badly structured they are: Hugh Hudson got all tangled up in the portrait of the two main characters and the times of the scenes that alternate roughly between past and present. The rest isn't better as the plot unfolds in total linearity even during the Olympic Games that were supposed to be the apotheosis of the movie but turned out to be flat.
The story is just very little interesting and probably didn't deserve a script in the first place, and that's the big handicap of this feature: it's hard to find the destiny of these two athletes captivating. The dialogues are long, flat and bland, emphasizing a bit more the overall lack of dynamism.
One will take comfort in a few well filmed (if that) training and running scenes, but that is about it.