Ali
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 41 Ratings
- Starring: Will Smith
- Summary: Will Smith and director/writer Michael Mann take you into the heart and life of the boxer, the legend and, more importantly, the man. (Columbia Pictures)
- Director: Michael Mann
- Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Sport
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Positive: 24 out of 36
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Mixed: 12 out of 36
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Negative: 0 out of 36
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90Ali is a bruiser, unwieldy in length and ambition. But Mann and Smith deliver this powerhouse with the urgency of a champ's left hook.
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80Ali becomes less the story of a boxer than the story of one man hanging onto his soul. With so many wrong ways to dramatize that process, Mann's approach seems all the more right.
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80Ali boasts a whole tribe of outstanding secondary performances, of which Jon Voight's Cosell, in an outrageous rug and several tons of pasty-face makeup, is easily the funniest.
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60It's a brilliant impersonation; Smith gets Ali's speech patterns and Louisville accent exactly right, and astonishingly convincing facial prosthetics complete the transformation. But he never quite finds the man under the enormous image; those quintessential Mann moments, during which Ali is left alone to brood, feel surprisingly blank.
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Positive: 11 out of 17
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Mixed: 3 out of 17
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Negative: 3 out of 17
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