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Invictus [DVD] [2009]
enlarge	Director: Clint Eastwood Actors: Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman Studio: Warner Home Video Category: DVD List Price: ~~£19.99~~ Buy New: £9.99 as of 9/9/2010 05:02 MDT details You Save: £10.00 (50%) New (20) Used (5) from £8.68 Seller: Amazon.co.uk Rating: 53 reviews Sales Rank: 127 Format: Anamorphic, Colour, PAL, Widescreen Languages: Dutch (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Arabic (Subtitled), Hebrew (Subtitled), Icelandic (Subtitled), Greek (Subtitled), English (Original Language), English (Audio Description), Italian (Dubbed) Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 128 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5051892011471 ASIN: B0030T13YA Theatrical Release Date: 2009 Release Date: June 14, 2010 Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours


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Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 53 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...11 Next » Terrible recreation of a wonderful sporting event September 6, 2010 Dannyboy501 1 out of 2 found this review helpful I am a massive rugby fan, and my favourite rugby moment to this day is the RWC in South Africa in 1995. It was by far the best world cup to date, and a wonderful moment. I appreciate that this film is more about telling the story of Nelson Mandela in his first years in power amongst the backdrop of the RWC, but did the rugby action and factual information have to be so appallingly wrong?! All they needed to do was speak to somebody who had half an idea about rugby to know that Ben Clark was not a "number 13" for England, and that commentators do not refer to players as numbers, not to mention the fact that forwards wear numbers 1 to 8, and backs wear 9 to 15! In the film, they quite clearly have players wearing a random selection of numbers! Funny that apparently many of the extras who played the players are actual rugby players in real life. Indeed the guy who plays Jonah Lomu plays in real life for Bath. Surely he must have seen the mistakes?! Also, in typical American 'underdog film' fashion, they have South Africa as a terrible team without a hope in hell of winning the world cup, and getting hammered by England. They were indeed beaten by England at Loftus, but then they beat England on the return fixtures to take the series. They were not the best team in the world, but one of the best nevertheless. I took this film with a pinch of salt - it is an American film. However, Morgan Freeman's appaling accent as Nelson Mandela, and the terrible image and incorrect details about the rugby is such a disappointment. I appreciate that rugby union is not the most popular of sports, but to die hard fans like me, it is annoying when no care has been taken of the facts. Especially with modern big budget films like this! A good piece of history brought alive September 1, 2010 AwakeNow.co.uk 1 out of 2 found this review helpful Invictus - based on the true story of the freedom of Nelson Mandela who become President of the new South Africa and his concern for his people of 42 million and the nations' Rugby Team. Many of the Black Africans want revenge on the injustices of apartheid, but Mandela (Freeman) believes that Rugby World Cup can bring the country together into the true rainbow nation. The problem is the rugby team is not that good and so Matt Damon, as captain of the team has to inspire the team, as he has been inspired by the President who invited him for tea. There is much good rugby playing, slow effects, real, bumps etc, though sadly some infrequent strong language which was not necessary. The music is good, as was the acting and the locations. A good piece of history brought alive around a true story of a nation that was divided but what united by a single game - the winning of the Rugby World Cup. Invictus August 25, 2010 Barbara 1 out of 2 found this review helpful Fantastic! Another great performance by Morgan Freeman - does he ever do anything badly!!!!? Great character studies and massive feel good film! Stirring film, excellent August 25, 2010 CjW (England) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful Not only a stirring film, but I learnt a lot about the internal South African mindset and why Mandela did what he did. Very inspiring and demonstrates the sheer genius of the man. Disappointing August 20, 2010 Andres C. Salama (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 1 out of 2 found this review helpful The story of how Nelson Mandela, after becoming the leader of South Africa following the demise of the apartheid regime, tried to heal the racially divided country by, among other things, supporting the Springboks, the South African rugby team, who were supported by the white minority and hated by blacks, during the 1995 World Cup (the Springboks managed to win). Matt Damon does a nice turn as Francois Pienaar, the captain of the Springbooks, who coming like the rest of his teammates from an Afrikaner home hostile to the new regime slowly warms up to Mandela. Morgan Freeman is almost insufferable as the new president, showing him almost as a holy fool, a naive, always smiling, quasi imbecile. The real Mandela, who was (for a good cause) the leader of Africa's main armed faction for more than thirty years, is probably made of sterner stuff. You don't have to be a cynic to find this movie trite and corny, full of cringing dialogue that is almost painful to listen. Even the rugby scenes shown here are uninspiring. A disappointment. Showing reviews 1-5 of 53 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...11 Next »

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