I caught myself smiling and getting chills on the screen throughout the film.

77.500

A prime example of the way artistic nobility can drain all the energy from a film. Eastwood's workmanlike approach as a director has its uses, but it's ill-suited to a driving sports epic. His best attempt at conveying the tension of a tight contest is to present the action more and more slowly as the game clock ticks down, as if the film is approaching the edge of the universe and time is grinding to a halt. Freeman and Damon do yeoman's work in roles that are more symbol than character.

Ótimo filme, baseado em fatos reais, execelente história, muito emocionante, com ótimas atuações, morgan freeman ficou realmente muito parecido com mandela. Recomendo.

Eastwood bungles his subject.

A extremely good movie

The film that made me finally accept that Clint Eastwood is NOT a great director. He's an acceptable one, but this film above all his others was so easy to have been made better that one must wonder what he was thinking. We all know how much racial strife there was in South Africa but instead of showing enough of that we get long drawn out cheering crowd sequences that do nothing but extend the running time. This is far too lightweight a film for what it could have been.

By the numbers sports-film, with a touch of social significance due to its basis in reality. I liked the juxtaposition between sports and the "issues that matter" that often came up within Mandela's inner circle, as he recognized that sometimes those "lesser" things do play a truly significant role in the lives of people. That said, the music was often terrible (yes, I'm talking to you helicopter scene), and the cliches and directness leave the film unable to make a lasting artistic impact.

Invictus is certainly not among Clint's best, but provides solid acting and a rewarding inspirational tone.

There might have been no better time to cinematically document post-Apartheid South Africa's heftiest, most tonical sporting achievement than just prior to their staging of another top sports competition (the 2010 FIFA World Cup), but there most certainly could've been a better way to do it. Alternately banal and touching, Eastwood's Invictus is entirely too simplistic and to-the-point. To paraphrase its primary character (played indelibly by Morgan Freeman), the film has "no sense of occasion."

Vredu, gledljiv film, odli%u010Dna igra freemana, vseeno mu manjka tisto nekaj, da bi mu dal vi%u0161jo oceno.

about a real man !

Enjoyability 21/25 Visuals 12/15 Audio 7/10 Acting 8/10 Story/Plot 21/25 Production Values 7/10 Intuitiveness/Ambitiousness 3/5 Bonus 6/10

I didn't really learn too much about rugby in this film. One of the few times where I kinda felt Damon's perfomance was just ok. I just couldn't buy him in that character. Freeman was good as Mandella, but I just never found the movie pulling me in or grabbing me. When I finished this movie I asked my date if she would be more inclined to try to play rugby now but she curtly said no. I tend to agree with her, and I say that with con(victus)ion.

nice movie with an important historical and inspirational message only great people like Mandela could accomplish.