Inglorious Victory...

Rating: 7/10 (22 February 2010)

I would prefer it had they chosen another angle to look at Mandela's life.
It was made extremely obvious in the movie that the game was a metaphor for pulling together and no longer acting in self-interest, so the 'bonding' before the games was interesting, but at the end of the day I just don't give a fig about rugby, so I didn't need to see so much onfield action. If you're going to put Mandela in a movie, then make it about him, and not how he encouraged another organisation to do his work of uniting a nation.
Having said that, if you appreciate movies about how sport can bring people together and hasten social change away from the playing field, then this still does stand as a decent entry into that canon.