Pawn Sacrifice review

Rating: Null/10 (1 October 2016)

Tobey Maguire is best known for playing Spider-Man on the silver screen, while fellow actor Liev Schreiber took on the role of Sabretooth in another Marvel movie – X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
It is an appropriate background, because in Pawn Sacrifice the acting duo assume the identities of two of the superheroes of the chess world – Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky.
The film was out in 2014 but the distribution has been patchy. It received only a limited release in the UK, for example, and has not been available for Brits via iTunes or Netflix. So being based in England I ordered a Polish DVD from Amazon and had to fiddle with the subtitles and language in order to watch it.
Was it worth the hassle? Yes, just about.
For my full review, see here: https://www.chess.com/blog/thejacka1/pawn- sacrifice-movie-review