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Invictus (2009)

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Reviews Counted:160

Fresh:123

Rotten:37

Average Rating:6.7/10

Consensus: Delivered with typically stately precision from director Clint Eastwood, Invictus may not be rousing enough for some viewers, but Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman inhabit their real-life characters with admirable conviction.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for brief strong language

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Dec 11, 2009 Wide

Box Office: $15,877,956

Synopsis: The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team, Francois Pienaar, to help unite their country. Newly elected President... The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team, Francois Pienaar, to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa’s underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match. --© Warner Bros. [More]

Starring: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Clint Eastwood

Starring: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Clint Eastwood

Director: Clint Eastwood

Director: Clint Eastwood
Screenwriter: Anthony Peckham
Producer: Lori McCreary, Robert Lorenz, Mace Neufeld
Studio: Warner Bros.

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A deeply flawed but still impressive sports epic, which follows an unimaginative and by-the-numbers first 90 minutes with one of the most expertly staged sports sequences ever committed to film.

Full Review Source: The Trend | comment Comment
12/20/09
Stephen Silver
Stephen Silver
The Trend

The script is a steaming pile of schmaltz and sports clichés, and Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon stumble through without any energy, but with plenty of butchered accents.

Full Review Source: Film and Felt | comment Comment
12/20/09
Gabe Leibowitz
Gabe Leibowitz
Film and Felt

The film seems determined to show us the uplifting side of the post-apartheid era, and that just feels like a whitewash, pun intended.

Full Review Source: Atlantic City Weekly | comment Comment
12/18/09
Lori Hoffman
Lori Hoffman
Atlantic City Weekly

ne samo politi%u010Dki, nego i zanatski korektan film

Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | comment Comment
12/18/09
Dragan Antulov
Dragan Antulov
rec.arts.movies.reviews

A hopeful look at how humanity can be brought together by something as simple, and as complicated, as sports, 'Invictus' is one of the finest movies of the year.

Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | comment 1 Comment
12/17/09
Linda Cook
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

On paper, the movie's plot sounds clichéd and forced, and while the film is tainted with elements of each, the good news is that it's overwhelmed by neither.

Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine) | comment Comment
12/17/09
Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

I don't like important movies anyway. Once you set out to be important, I don't buy it.

Full Review Source: Can Magazine | comment 5 Comments
12/16/09
Fred Topel
Fred Topel
Can Magazine

even if it sometimes simplifies the historical issues in favor of uncomplicated multiplex feel-good uplift, it's hard not to get swept up in the joy

Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | comment Comment
12/16/09
James Kendrick
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

Standard inspirational sports movie given added weight by Mandela's wisdom and his political courage, and the historical significance of his presidency.

Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | comment Comment
12/16/09
Robert Roten
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope

Simpliflies complicated South African issues to the level of a Berenstain Bears storybook.

Full Review Source: Creative Loafing | comment Comment
12/16/09
Matt Brunson
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing

Like the poem from which it takes its title, it suffers not from any obvious technical flaws but from a failure of tone and perspective. It's a sermon, not a story.

Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
12/16/09
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Solid, unsurprising, formalist filmmaking of the kind we've come to expect from Clint Eastwood.

Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
12/16/09
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

A pretty darn satisfying but undemanding story about politics, sports, and men doing their jobs as best they can.

Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | comment Comment
12/15/09
Tim Brayton
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

Clint Eastwood scores again with this tale of Mandela and his idea to bring unity to South Africa through rugby. Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon provide the acting clout while Eastwood shapes the direction of the film.

Full Review Source: jackiekcooper.com | comment Comment
12/15/09
Jackie K. Cooper
Jackie K. Cooper
jackiekcooper.com

A modest, self-effacing movie about extraordinary events that chronicles one battle in Nelson Mandela's war against the past that threaten to destroy post-apartheid South Africa before it can find its feet.

Full Review Source: Miss FlickChick | comment Comment
12/14/09
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
Miss FlickChick

Eastwood directs all this with skill if not overwhelming urgency, delivering a classy, sincere, meticulously crafted picture.

Full Review Source: Montreal Film Journal | comment Comment
12/14/09
Kevin N. Laforest
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal

Morgan Freeman's role in Invictus is a universe away from his role in Lean on Me, even if both characters turn around troubled institutions.

Full Review Source: IdentityTheory | comment Comment
12/13/09
Matthew Sorrento
Matthew Sorrento
IdentityTheory

Slow, and subtle, smiling brightly, the picture wins audiences with the charm of Mandela, but descends into a bland film about rugby.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Report Card | comment 2 Comments
12/13/09
Ross Anthony
Ross Anthony
Hollywood Report Card

Obama could use a Rugby World Cup. Something to unite his disaffected nation.

Full Review Source: Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine) | comment 2 Comments
12/13/09
Gina Carbone
Gina Carbone
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)

Morgan Freeman makes for a remarkable Nelson Mandela.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
12/13/09
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
 
 
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