Invictus- Sports Over Everything Else **1/2

Rating: 5/10 (5 December 2010)

The film chronicles Nelson Mandela's rise following his release from prison and his winning of the presidency.
This movie deals with Mandela's attempt to bring the South African society into integration by concentrating and interesting the efforts of his people on Rugby. He realizes that this would be a great way to bring his people together along racial lines.
While he is certainly entitled to his beliefs, how can you concentrate solely on this soccer issue and let important affairs of state become relatively secondary in nature. Investments and other concerns are merely glossed over.
Morgan Freeman gives a very stilted performance as the South African leader. He is matched here by Matt Damon, as the leader of the team. I am not at all surprised that Freeman failed to capture last year's Oscar for best actor.
The last part of the film is entirely devoted to the match for the World Cup. Is this really the most important thing that society or a film would concentrate on?
Am wondering if Morgan, who shows a great similarity in features to ex-New York Mayor David Dinkins will be in a biography about the first black mayor of Gotham.