Giant Reviews

7/10.

“You fly close enough to the sun, you’ll cast the shadow of a giant.” ohhhhh as in like giant prick!? giant Ah!?
Riath was a bloody greedy little man

Actually a lot better and more sincere than I thought it’d be.

I’m not usually a fan of when biopics cover such a large period of time, but it felt effective here. I’m glad the film opted to focus on Ingle and Hamed’s relationship over his career, making for a far more interesting and original film. The film felt thankfully in-biased, balanced, showcasing the rift as a fault of them both.

One of the better performances of Brosnan’s career, he put in a lot of heart and was great to see such a push from him at this stage of his career. First I’ve seen Amir El-Masry, I can’t say I was too familiar with Naseem Hamed going in, but from clips that were shown in the credits, he seemed to get it pretty spot on, and on a whole producing a very fine performance.

Strong biopic, the ending really worked for me - at first leaving me a bit icky with how neat it was before revealing the truth - very effective.

can confirm naseem was a proper little shite when he fought back in the day. or at least my dad confirms. makes for a good film study for boxing though.

The fact that we got to have a reconciliation between them speaks volumes on the real work put in the making of a true story and the tribute to The best boxing trainer that ever was!