westrangehumans
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Not highly rated here by many users, but that is probably because the film takes a while to really take off. When it does, it keeps you pinned back because the ride is at breakneck speed.
Whoever thought of the plot must be a genius. It's another blend of time travel with quantum physics and clairvoyance, except that the main character is only able to see 2 minutes ahead. More, he sees the different permutations possible in those two minutes.
There are, of course, inconsistencies which has one gasping "now why didn't he..." Other than that, the climax virtually explodes in your screen and just when you thought it was all over, a surprise awaits you at the end that even has you feeling a tad foolish for having been so gripped by it.
Whoever thought of the plot must be a genius. It's another blend of time travel with quantum physics and clairvoyance, except that the main character is only able to see 2 minutes ahead. More, he sees the different permutations possible in those two minutes.
There are, of course, inconsistencies which has one gasping "now why didn't he..." Other than that, the climax virtually explodes in your screen and just when you thought it was all over, a surprise awaits you at the end that even has you feeling a tad foolish for having been so gripped by it.
Not a classic by any means, but at least, in comparison to the first one (Goal!), a more accomplished film.
The game scenes were not as contrived as in the first movie, hardly surprising since some of the clips were straight off real matches.
Becker did not look out of his depth in the company of the likes of Zidane, Roberto Carlos and David Beckham -- as long as he did not have the ball, that is. In a dressing room scene inside the Bernabeu, for instance, Becker's time on the ball in a jolly juggling scene was thankfully limited to one touch.
I guess it's too much to ask for an actor who had real football skills, and I guess that realization kept the cameras more focused on the 'real' football players in game situations. This added more to a sense of realism, as compared to the first movie when Becker was scene doing all sorts of fantastic things -- corny to a trained eye.
This movie's real merit comes from the way it handled the human element: Santi's head getting a tad too big from all the media attention and from being in the company of Real Madrid's galacticos; the lover's tiff with Roz, doubtless echoed in many a professional football player's life; and the surprise of finding he has a half-brother living in Spain along with the painful reunion with a long-lost Mother.
Dramatic without going overboard, and without losing touch with the primary plot that this is a professional footballer's story.
The game scenes were not as contrived as in the first movie, hardly surprising since some of the clips were straight off real matches.
Becker did not look out of his depth in the company of the likes of Zidane, Roberto Carlos and David Beckham -- as long as he did not have the ball, that is. In a dressing room scene inside the Bernabeu, for instance, Becker's time on the ball in a jolly juggling scene was thankfully limited to one touch.
I guess it's too much to ask for an actor who had real football skills, and I guess that realization kept the cameras more focused on the 'real' football players in game situations. This added more to a sense of realism, as compared to the first movie when Becker was scene doing all sorts of fantastic things -- corny to a trained eye.
This movie's real merit comes from the way it handled the human element: Santi's head getting a tad too big from all the media attention and from being in the company of Real Madrid's galacticos; the lover's tiff with Roz, doubtless echoed in many a professional football player's life; and the surprise of finding he has a half-brother living in Spain along with the painful reunion with a long-lost Mother.
Dramatic without going overboard, and without losing touch with the primary plot that this is a professional footballer's story.
Nothing unique about this movie's theme, a sort of drama version of the Sister Act series. Young teacher meets a class of underachievers, are openly hostile at first; she wins her over in time, until they eventually cling on to her at the moment of parting.
Predictable? Perhaps...
But the twist to the somewhat stereotyped plot was the subplot of the LA gang scene, along with the surprising subplot of the plight of the Jews in World War II... the Holocaust.
Go figure that one out, but the result was an emotion-filled, inspirational movie. Throw in the lead role's domestic troubles which came at a time when one would have expected a spouse's all-out support and you get the picture.
All one needs to do is look at Hilary Swank's eternally smiling face and one quickly forgets she is playing a character and rallies behind her when her character's husband, played by Patrick Dempsey, opts for a divorce.
What an ass, one is driven into thinking! This, to sum up is what the movie is all about. It is so well-acted that one gets immersed in it so much one forgets one is watching a movie.
Predictable? Perhaps...
But the twist to the somewhat stereotyped plot was the subplot of the LA gang scene, along with the surprising subplot of the plight of the Jews in World War II... the Holocaust.
Go figure that one out, but the result was an emotion-filled, inspirational movie. Throw in the lead role's domestic troubles which came at a time when one would have expected a spouse's all-out support and you get the picture.
All one needs to do is look at Hilary Swank's eternally smiling face and one quickly forgets she is playing a character and rallies behind her when her character's husband, played by Patrick Dempsey, opts for a divorce.
What an ass, one is driven into thinking! This, to sum up is what the movie is all about. It is so well-acted that one gets immersed in it so much one forgets one is watching a movie.