Far From the Best Film of 1981

Rating: Null/10 (10 April 2003)

How Chariotes of Fire was awarded the Best Picture Oscar in 1981, I'll never know. It was a film that kept my interests up in some parts, but was rather boring in others. It definitely was not Best Picture Material. I saw the four other Best Picture contenders and I think I liked them all better than this one. My pick would have gone to On Golden Pond. This was an excellent film. Reds was great too, however, OGP would have been my choice.
The film is not a terrible one, however; it had its good moments. Cross and Charleson's performances were rather good as was Ian Holm's. The scenes with them competing at the Opympics were filmed very well. All in all, I'd rate the film average. 6/10