Interesting and very all over good

Rating: 6/10 (4 July 2004)

spoilers. SEABISCUIT, the name doesn't really makes you want to jumpn over it and see it, cause it's too weird. Tobey Maguire, better known as Spider-Man stars together with great actors like Chris Cooper and Jeff Bridges in this emotional and very interesting drama.
Roughly: Johnny Red has always got a very good connection with horses. This later making him a little and slim jockey, he starts riding horses crazy and soon gets popular. And soon, he starts riding this talented horse...
The movie has got a very nice mood, and it keeps that mood threw the whole movie. Beautiful acting and very nice directing adds a lots of nice overall feelings about this movie. Making a movie about horse-riding and stuff may not seem very entertaining, but this movie really had me on the edge of my chair, especially at the end though. It's exciting, it's catchy with its ambitious ways of twisting together raw horse-power and fine emotional pieces. Maguire does a good job, but it is Cooper and Bridges that's really fabulous watching, and there's a small character played wonderful by William H. Macy. SEABISCUIT may not be very original in many ways, but it does everything right as the drama motion picture it is. It doesn't fail, ever! But; getting into the movie is another thing, it's a sort of "heavy" movie. You don't sit down every Staurday Night to watch this movie for entertainment, but that I neither had expected. It's pure drama, and it's got about everything it needs except; the little magical influence. It never reached me and that made me sitting there with the feeling that I just had seen this movie, nothing more sort of. You never see sparkles fly in your imagination, because it never gets that far, it never reaches that magical point, sadly enough. STARS: 4/5