'Air' is a perfectly well made movie, but boy was it a grind to get through. The reason: we know the outcome. The entire runtime the movie keeps pretending like there's this great suspense over whether or not Nike will get Michael Jordan. It doesn't matter if you are a basketball fan or not, the chances are (unless you've lived your life under a rock) that you know what happened.
And so all we are left with is to see how it all went down. Not that the movie feels like it always needs to stick to the facts or anything. Whatever works best for the storytelling narrative will do. Then we are just left with this group of characters to be inspired by. The film does its best to make them seem like genius fortune-tellers who pulled off a miracle, but it did feel very forced and that these people weren't really all that impressive.
All this probably seems very negative for a film I gave 6/10. I didn't hate the movie. I didn't even dislike the movie. There are far worse ways to spend 2 hours than with Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Chris Tucker. I just felt it was very fake and given the "movie polish" even more so than most biographical films are. Not a film I have any interest in seeing again, but I'm glad I've seen it.
And so all we are left with is to see how it all went down. Not that the movie feels like it always needs to stick to the facts or anything. Whatever works best for the storytelling narrative will do. Then we are just left with this group of characters to be inspired by. The film does its best to make them seem like genius fortune-tellers who pulled off a miracle, but it did feel very forced and that these people weren't really all that impressive.
All this probably seems very negative for a film I gave 6/10. I didn't hate the movie. I didn't even dislike the movie. There are far worse ways to spend 2 hours than with Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Chris Tucker. I just felt it was very fake and given the "movie polish" even more so than most biographical films are. Not a film I have any interest in seeing again, but I'm glad I've seen it.