Matt Damon plays the team captain and Morgan Freeman plays Mandela.
While Freeman’s impersonation of the president may be accurate, there’s something about this old man playing another old man that ends up being ponderous and extremely dull. It could be his slow speaking manner or the rather flat way the scenes are directed, but the first half feels slow and laboured. Also, Matt Damon’s character is hardly developed at all. He’s highly watchable, but he doesn’t have much to get behind in terms of the role. His girlfriend and family are even sketchier. Also, the racial stuff seems simplistically handled.
On the plus side, things improve a lot once the actual rugby begins. The final is exciting and dynamic in a way that little else in the film is.
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