Brilliant !

Rating: 10/10 (11 December 2009)

Normally I am a bit skeptical when it comes to sport movies but when I heard that this one was being made I hoped to myself that Clint Eastwood does it justice as many of us South Africans that were alive at that time (and also like myself went to see the final match at Ellis Park) still have very fond memories of it. This film does not fail. It doesn't even come close to failing. But what the film did show is that sport and politics can be used to bring people together. And yes Morgan Freeman, in my opinion, did not fail as Nelson Mandela. Matt Damon was good (his South African accent is probably as good any American can do it, and the best that I have heard in any American financed movie) as Captain Francois Pienaar but the real scene stealer is Freeman. The rugby being played in the film was real. The 'plays' in the film were real. Everything about the film was about as close to the event as it can be. Don't watch it on a small screen, it literally begs to be watched on a HUGE SCREEN!!!