Shockingly Good If One Can Discount the Ending

Rating: 10/10 (5 February 2020)

Never have I given a film a 10 without an ending that was satisfying and worth the wait, but this is a real film made with real film. That raises the enjoyment of it so dramatically that I made an exception. It is true to the original story based on several biographies. Matt Damon and Christian Bale look and sound like the real characters. The acting of everyone is superb. You can watch it for the acting and most of the story alone or you can admire the beautiful look of real film: the rich color we took for granted in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Most movies since the 90s look terrible. It is unfortunate so many have gotten used to bad looking films. For example take the Seth Rogan film "50/50" as an example of how worthless good stories are with the dystopic glare and bright, diffused white light of video. They are colorless. "Sex and the City" is another good example. In that 2008 film the ocean is a dirty brown in one romantic scene!
This film is for everyone: car or racing lover, or not. I am neither, but was enthralled from start to finish. It was not just the beauty of the color using real film and genius photography, it was an amazing script. It is a good story but
the end of the real life hero Ken Miles is sad and weighs the film down.