Fun, but inaccurate

Rating: Null/10 (2 April 2002)

I saw Victory when it first came out because several of my friends were soccer players. It really is a fun movie, the soccer action is terrific and the cast is very good. Stallone, Caine and von Sydow all shine and Pele is good in his debut. However, the movie is really inaccurate historically. There is no way the Germans would have allowed such a large gathering in any occupied city, let alone Paris, for just what happens at the end of the movie; the fans riot. In reality, the players would have ducked out at halftime and made good their escape. Pride as athletes be damned, this is war.