Inspiring and entertaining

Rating: 10/10 (28 February 2010)

Invictus tells the story of how Nelson Mandela (Freeman) join South Africa's rugby team captain Francois Pienaar (Damon) to help unite their country through Rugby's World Cup and making them world champions. This is a very enjoyable movie. It has the exactly amount of drama without falling into something corny. The story is quite interesting, it catches you from the very beginning and the plot is very well developed and the addition of original footage gives the movie a sense of reality. Although the rhythm is a bit slow, the film never turns tiresome or boring. Directed by Clint Eastwood, he really manage to tell us an inspiring story without to much pretensions The cast is just wonderful. Morgan Freeman is Nelson Mandela, his performance is simply flawless, Matt Damon in the role of Francois Pienaar is very convincing and the secondary roles of Tony Kgoroge (Jason Tshabalala), Patrick Mofokeng ( Linga Moonsamy), Matt Stern (Hendrick Booyens), Julian Lewis Jones (Etienne Feyder), Adjoa Andoh (Brenda Mazibuko), Marguerite Wheatley (Nerine) and Leleti Khumalo (Mary) were of very good help to the development of the movie. In conclusion, Invictus is a very interesting, inspiring and enjoyable movie. I totally recommend it