Ali (Director's Cut)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 1, 2004
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Will Smith & Jon Voight | |
Performer: | Jada Pinkett Smith, Jamie Foxx, Ron Silver, Nona Gaye, Mario Van Peebles, Jeffrey Wright, Mykelti Williamson & Giancarlo Esposito | |
Directed by | Michael Mann | |
Screenwriting by | Michael Mann, Eric Roth, Stephen J. Rivele & Christopher Wilkinson | |
Composition by | Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke | |
Story by | Gregory Allen Howard | |
Subject: | Muhammad Ali | |
Produced by | Michael Mann, Jon Peters, A. Kitman Ho & Paul Ardaji | |
Director of Photography: | Emmanuel Lubezki |
Entertainment Reviews:
It is well-intentioned, sketchy, sprawling and unremarkable. At two hours and 38 minutes, it is also long-winded and exhausting.
Full Review
Observer
...[The film] possesses an informed, intelligent perspective...
Variety
...Will Smith embodies the public Ali with supreme confidence, bringing the familiar routines to his life without falling back on mere impersonation...
Sight and Sound
...Smith is undeniably excellent in the role, capturing the essence of Ali's character....Other supporting performers are equally convincing...
Box Office
Rating: 4/5 --
[Michael Mann] successfully recreates an era on screen and provides a great introduction to the fighter that is not clouded by sentimentality.
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The List
...Smith gives a towering performance, defiantly funny and impassioned....Mann and Smith deliver this powerhouse with the urgency of a champ's left hook...
Rolling Stone
...ALI is a breakthrough for director Michael Mann....His overwhelming love of its subject will turn audiences into exuberant, thrilled fight crowds...
New York Times
Product Description:
Michael Mann's ALI manages to be an informative look at the career of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali and an entertaining and moving portrait of the man. The action begins with the brash young Cassius Clay's surprising victory over Sonny Liston. The film depicts Clay's conversion to Islam, his partnership with "Bundini" Brown (Jamie Foxx in a wonderfully complex turn), his friendship with Howard Cosell (a transformed Jon Voight), his principled refusal to serve in the military during Vietnam, and his subsequent problems with the law and the boxing commission. The film concludes with Ali's battle with George Foreman in the "Rumble in the Jungle."
Will Smith delivers a worthy performance, transforming his body, face, and voice to capture the spirit of the charismatic fighter. The work of the supporting cast is superb, including Smith's real-life wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Marvin Gaye's daughter, Nona Gaye, as the women in Ali's life. Mann brings the viewer in close to the boxing action, effectively depicting Ali's unique grace and quickness, and the violent frenzy of the sport. The film shows the familiar public figure of fights and press conferences, and also gives a glimpse of the quiet, thoughtful private life of Ali.
Will Smith delivers a worthy performance, transforming his body, face, and voice to capture the spirit of the charismatic fighter. The work of the supporting cast is superb, including Smith's real-life wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Marvin Gaye's daughter, Nona Gaye, as the women in Ali's life. Mann brings the viewer in close to the boxing action, effectively depicting Ali's unique grace and quickness, and the violent frenzy of the sport. The film shows the familiar public figure of fights and press conferences, and also gives a glimpse of the quiet, thoughtful private life of Ali.
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- Sales Rank: 36,920
- UPC: 043396090569
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