Good but not excellent

Rating: 6/10 (11 September 2006)

The film leaves many mixed feelings and emotions. First, the actors' play is always very good. Marty Freeman, Clint Eastwood and of course Hillary Swank are in all senses excellent actors, their delivery is impeccably smooth and almost close to perfection. It is not the acting that spoils the mood, it is the very tedious tempo of the film. Did you notice that sport films are mostly very boring? The acute, high-pitched and up-tempo sport scenes are intermittent with impossibly slow and boring "real life" moments, when we see that they are also people, that they have their problems too and so on. But, dear me, I always wait till these boring moments will be replaced with those sharp sporty scenes again. The same with MDB - as a sport film, this is great, as anything else, it is slightly slowish and boring.