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65 out of 100

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6.1 out of 10

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  • 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)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 36
  3. Negative: 0 out of 36
  1. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    90
    Ali is a bruiser, unwieldy in length and ambition. But Mann and Smith deliver this powerhouse with the urgency of a champ's left hook.
  2. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Michael Sragow
    88
    It's one of the most ambitious biographical films ever made in this country, and one of the most unusual, moving and exciting.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    60
    It'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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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 17
  3. Negative: 3 out of 17
  1. ERG1008
    6
    Will Smith was very good but I wanted to see more about what happened out of the ring, more about the man himself. Yes we all know he beat Foreman, Liston, etc in those fights, so why go on so long with them? Should have brought it up to date with his later fights, Parkinsons Disease, etc rather than stopping in 1975.… Expand
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