Ali

Pros: Jon Voight...Will Smith, Great Fight Scenes
Cons: Sometimes a little boring, skipped around

One of the funny things about living in a very small town, is that the only theater can be packed if the movie you want to see is a long anticipated one. Thinking that Ali was going to be one of those, we arrived at the theater about 30 minutes...

Pros: Smith's novel Ali impression, Jamie Foxx shows he can act.
Cons: This is one big purple yawn of a movie.

After directing the phenomenal movie The Insider, filmmaker Michael Mann found himself the new "A-list" director. (He had previously directed other critical faves including The Last of the Mohicans and Heat.) With his newfound...

Pros: Great acting, amazing sound track, strong messages
Cons: Not enough fight scenes, some strange directing

What were your expectations?

The key to the movie Ali is what you knew, or what you thought you knew going in. Another key is what you thought of Ali. Growing up Muhammad Ali was one of my heroes. He was brash, he was invincible, he...

Pros: pro? You are a sadio-mascist and want to punish yourself.
Cons: Choppy, poor direction,puzzling dialogue

O.K. I will admit it. I hate boxing. I think as a sport it is plebian and you might as well be watching the Romans fighting the lions in the coliseum in Rome. Think about it, two men go in a ring and fight each other till one of them either drops dead...

Pros: Voight, the sound track, Mario Von Peebles-some aspects of Smith's performance
Cons: Not enough fighting for fight fans, and the other aspects of Smith's performance

This is a movie that chronicles the life and career of Muhammad Ali from his transition from Cassius Clay through much of his fighting career. It is beautifully filmed, and well performed. I have been struggling to define why I failed to get...

Pros: Some informative movie about the life of Cassius Clay/Muhammed Ali.
Cons: Very slow moving, hard to understand Smith some of the time

WILL SMITH is a great actor. In this movie he was exceptional. I can see why he is nominated for an academy award. I had a hard time believing he was NOT Muhammmed Ali, (or Cassius Clay).

I remember very little about ALI except that he was...

Pros: Will Smith as Ali, and John Voigt as Howard Cosell.
Cons: Length of the movie, wandering script.

I had high expectations when I went to see Ali, with my spouse on our anniversary on the first day of the New Year. The movie itself is one of the most hyped productions in recent history and the spouse and I were eager to see for ourselves what all the...

Pros: Fight scenes comparable to those in RAGING BULL or THE SET UP.
Cons: The personal and social significance of the life of Cassius Clay/Muhammed Ali is lost.

Director Michael Mann's ALI is a reverent, skillful bio-pic of one of the most extraordinary and admirable Sports and Civil Rights heroes of the late 20th Century.

World Heavy Weight Champ Muhammad Ali (Will Smith) has several advantages...

Pros: Will Smith does a nice job in his portrayal.
Cons: Movie is disjointed and doesn't have a script to do Ali justice.

To say this movie was a disappointment, is to put it much too mildly. I attended a matinee showing of the movie, “Ali” today and came away feeling sad. Sad that the movie lacked so much it could have had and sad that I wasted my money going to the movie...

Pros: Will Smith makes a decent Ali. Good supporting cast when used. Music. Good fight scenes.
Cons: Too vague about everything. Plot holes. Underused supporting cast. Too boring. Too long!

This is it, yes this the momentous event where I write about a subject other than music or computer games. Since I was severely bored last Friday night, me and a couple of mates thought we’d check out Ali a film biopic of no-one else but the...

Pros: Revives a great American hero.
Cons: Disfocused.

Ali is a movie everybody wants to love as much as they love its subject: the great sports legend Muhommad Ali. Michael Mann's big, expensive bio-pic delivers what we want, but it also suffers some disfocus with Mann's interest in relating the ...

Pros: Bringing the Ali legend to a new generation...
Cons: Highlighting the Champ's Muslim life does little to provide a new angle...

Making an Ali movie is as challenging as making another Elvis movie. The story's been told so many times that it takes a uniquely unexplored angle to put it ahead of the pack, and unfortunately director Michael Mann didn't have what it takes. Casting...

Pros: Smith is a strong Ali, and Foxx steals every scene
Cons: Story telling isn't as strong as it could've been

Michael Mann was in trouble the day he decided to direct Ali. He was never going to be able to win over everyone. This isn't fantasy; it's not an adaptation of a book. It's the life of Muhammed Ali, probably the most beloved sports figure of our...

Pros: Great cast, character interactions, great visual interpretation
Cons: Direction, Dull and boring feature, This was suppose to be a biographical film?

Muhammad Ali is probably the best fighter that the world is pretty much going to see and it’s inevitable that Hollywood would take this subject matter that is actually the perfect vehicle to be interpreted into the big screen for all to see. Ali...

Pros: Will Smith and Jon Voight give tremendous performances.
Cons: You learn nothing new about the champ you couldn't have seen in an ESPN documentary.

Ali is not so much a movie as it is a greatest hits package. Like the musical artists who have nothing new to offer, Ali tells us about only ten years in the life of the boxing champ known as “the greatest.” Those who grew up with him or anyone who has...