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- 2023
- Apple TV+
- 2023
- Apple TV+
Summary The two-part Alex Gibney documentary about the life and career of German tennis player Boris Becker includes a 2022 interview just before he was sentenced to 30 months in prison.
- 2023
- Apple TV+
- 2023
- Apple TV+
Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker
Season 1 Premiere: Apr 7, 2023
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Summary The two-part Alex Gibney documentary about the life and career of German tennis player Boris Becker includes a 2022 interview just before he was sentenced to 30 months in prison.
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While it is naturally big on the technicalities of tennis, there is a humanistic story at the center that is appealing to everyone.
Prolixity apart, Boom! Boom! tells a great story and throws in an intriguing thesis to boot.
“Boom Boom” has a hard time justifying the exhaustive three and a half hours, in two parts, that the irons-in-many-fires Gibney delivered to Apple TV+. In sports metaphor terms, Gibney didn’t lay a glove on him. But it’s still a worthwhile film, simply in a sporting sense.
Gibney allows his documentary to meander. This project will struggle to hold the attention of anybody who isn’t a devotee of a specific era of tennis. Even as a tennis fan and somebody who grew up admiring Becker in particular, I found myself frequently pondering how many interesting ideas Gibney has in Boom! Boom! and how poorly they sometimes coalesce.
Despite some great archive material and nice interview turns, this documentary portrait of disgraced German tennis legend Boris Becker from film-maker Alex Gibney is a frustrating and disappointing experience – because of the baffling way it is structured, both unrevealing and anticlimactic.
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Production Company:
- Jigsaw Productions
- Lorton Entertainment
- Ventureland
Initial Release Date: Apr 7, 2023
Number of seasons: 1 Season
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