The story has everything you'd ever need to inspire young and old.
There's just something missing.
That something is that the screenplay, direction and chosen edit feel like a glossy magazine - not a gutsy drama.
The treatment of the subject matter is misguided at best.
Then when the director realises that there are massive lulls in the story it's jazzed up with some Hollywood-like plasticity just to keep a pulse going.
The story itself is moving, definitely. The casting and acting near perfect.
It's just difficult to understand how with all the industry experience for bringing incredible tales like this to the screen that the audience is subjected to the incredible stretches of outright boredom when there's all this material to choose from.
It's a real shame because the tale itself is mind blowing.
There's just something missing.
That something is that the screenplay, direction and chosen edit feel like a glossy magazine - not a gutsy drama.
The treatment of the subject matter is misguided at best.
Then when the director realises that there are massive lulls in the story it's jazzed up with some Hollywood-like plasticity just to keep a pulse going.
The story itself is moving, definitely. The casting and acting near perfect.
It's just difficult to understand how with all the industry experience for bringing incredible tales like this to the screen that the audience is subjected to the incredible stretches of outright boredom when there's all this material to choose from.
It's a real shame because the tale itself is mind blowing.