Great event, good movie

Rating: 5/10 (8 February 2004)

A great movie has to be great in a number of ways, great plot, great acting, great directing, etc. This movie definitely had a great plot that will resonate with US audiences. The rest of the movie however was only good to so-so. None of the acting performances particularly stuck out as being outstanding, but none of them were bad either.
Basically this movie just tells the story event by event, unfortunately this means that a lot of the characters fall by the wayside. For instance, when the final cut was made it was hard to feel bad about it because the player/character wasn't well developed.
All that being said this is a good movie overall. The story is the classic scrappy little guy beats the big bad guy which is a story that is hard to have fail. It is even harder to mess up when it is a true story. Enjoy it for the feel good type movie that it is, but don't expect a miracle (except in the game of course).