Tragic sports story

Rating: 7/10 (31 January 2015)

Interesting story, not as easy to follow some of the timelines when I looked up them on the internet but then going over a ten year period. The two brothers in this are very well played as the tragedy of the event unfolds with the pressure and the madness surrounding all of this. The film does give a good idea as to the sheer commitment made by these athletes. Interesting as well to take such a story to a larger audience as one I didn't know about. Such a story has probably being played out many a time in sports across the world (Iraq football team springs to mind). I did think they could have done a bit more with the film as the film flowed along telling the story as best they could given such timelines into a two hour film, but it's not a film I would watch again in a number of year's time. Okish but pulses not racing and just made me keen to look up the story and the details on the internet. Didn't think Steve Carell was that amazing so won't be a winner in the forthcoming Oscars (we'll see!!!)