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Good performances and a good premise ruined at the end by Netflix's more recent trend. Movie starts well and there is enough tension to keep you on edge and just when you think you are going to find out what is actually going on they hit you with a speech telling you that you are the problem. I think this is the 3rd recent Netflix movie we've watched where they did this. None of the characters are very likeable except Mahersala Ali and he is never straight with the truth when it would be much easier to say what he knows instead of half truths. Julia Roberts is a good actress but kind of insufferable in this role. She's a beyotch to everyone all the time except when she's drunk. Ruth, is just a beyotch the entire time and hates white people for some reason while she lives like a queen with prison tats and a nose ring. Like a fast food meal that you enjoyed as you started it and regret ordering by the time you finished it, only more Bacon could have saved it.

This Untold does not go into the depths of depravity that the Florida gators of that era sank to. Most of the time it feels like an Urban Meyer reputation redemption puff piece. Yes he was a demanding taskmaster; all successful coaches are but there is a lot more that went on with the Gators football team than they are interested in letting you know about. We already know that Tim Tebow was a great college quarterback and team leader and pretty much a living saint. If you aren't already a hardcore college football fan you probably don't know that Cam Newton arrived at UF the season after Tim Tebow did. A lot of things went down and he was gone. All you will learn from this show is that he was part of a recruiting class. That's it. The Pouncey brothers had an interesting career at UF. Nothing about that here. Aaron Hernandez killed a guy and kept playing for the Gators. Everything is glossed over to make Meyer look like a hero. Shows like this should be made for the hardcore football fan. Any real fan already knows more than they will show you on Untold.