Excellent film

Rating: 9/10 (17 June 2013)

Prior to seeing this film, I knew very little about the 1995 Rugby World Cup, apartheid, the Springboks, Nelson Mandela nor Francois Piennar. This was in fact the first film I had watched directed by Clint Eastwood, and I left impressed. You don't have to be a sports fan to enjoy this, it is merely a backdrop to the overall story of the end of apartheid and the coming together of black and white people. Morgan Freeman is casted brilliantly as Nelson Mandela and played the role down to a tee. He does look like him in my opinion. Despite knowing very little of what happened, I was entranced by the scene when the Springboks went to Robben Island Prison were Mandela was incacerated for 27 years. Hearing the lines of Invictus while Piennar (Matt Damon) was in Mandela's cell was superb film making.
It is truly superb, but not perfect film. Nethertheless, I left impressed, along with many others.