run to the hills and far away

Rating: 6/10 (3 August 2019)

Gary moore once sang in a song from the 80's, did they find their inspiration from that or from run to the hills of iron maiden? anyway its a sports movie, a film about growing patiently from nothing to win it all. its not a funny movie, but like all american sprts flicks it happens to have a winner in the end, and its a darn happy ending too...
as a filmproduct it follows all the moviemakers cliches that could be found whenever they are making a sports movie. what drags this film down on my scale of starawards is the unbelievable slow pace on the development of this movie. its like the director have said ''all you need to do is run'' to the actors, and may you thirst to death in the baking summer sun in central californian desert. there are not much finesse nor fantasy behind this victory, just running and that is just like forrest gump, at the end of his criss cross country running coming to a halt, ''i wanna go home'' and that really lingered my mind several times.
the grumpy old man loves movies where the underdog wins, this was allreit and nothing more than that