Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World

Name: Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Released: April 28, 2023
Rating: 45
Cast: Al Sapienza, Erica Tazel, Forest Whitaker, Jasmine Mathews, John Magaro

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Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World

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Columbia Pictures | Release Date: April 28, 2023

Starring: Al Sapienza, Erica Tazel, Forest Whitaker, Jasmine Mathews, John Magaro, Khris Davis, Larry Gilliard Jr., Matthew Glave, Sam Trammell, Sonja Sohn, Sullivan Jones, William Deion Smith

Summary: Fueled by an impoverished childhood, George Foreman channeled his anger into becoming an Olympic Gold medalist and World Heavyweight Champion, followed by a near-death experience that took him from the boxing ring to the pulpit. But when he sees his community struggling spiritually and financially, Foreman returns to the ring and makesFueled by an impoverished childhood, George Foreman channeled his anger into becoming an Olympic Gold medalist and World Heavyweight Champion, followed by a near-death experience that took him from the boxing ring to the pulpit. But when he sees his community struggling spiritually and financially, Foreman returns to the ring and makes history by reclaiming his title, becoming the oldest and most improbable World Heavyweight Boxing Champion ever. … Expand

Director: George Tillman Jr

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Sport

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Timothy Cogshell

Apr 27, 2023

Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World is an excellent movie about a beloved figure who indeed seems ageless and whose story includes the kind of comebacks usually reserved for fiction. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Apr 27, 2023

The movie thumps through successive events of Foreman’s amazing life in efficient, unsubtle, on-the-nose style, skating over his many marriages a little. Read full review

Richard Brody

May 1, 2023

The story of young George’s childhood and rise to fame has a tense and turbulent charm, but the story of the professional heavyweight’s dash to the championship and everything that follows (up through the nineteen-nineties) has a whiff of a ghostwritten corporate autobiography. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Apr 27, 2023

One can’t help but feel that the man himself — grill and all — is so much more fascinating than this rote representation. Read full review

Empire John Nugent

Apr 28, 2023

An all-too conventional look at an unconventional man, Big George Foreman is, alas, a swing and a miss. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Apr 27, 2023

It’s a movie with its heart in the right place and its sense of drama nowhere in sight. Read full review

Collider Chase Hutchinson

May 2, 2023

It can be said the film does indeed provide a full summary of Foreman’s recounting of the major events in his life where he comes out looking pretty great, but that hardly makes for a compelling work of cinema. Read full review

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Rettoph

Apr 28, 2023

Finally!! After all this time!!! I usually see two or three movies in the theater a week - and have been sorely disappointed over the last two years (I guess you would call the films I've seen over that period "The COVID Movies") by the poorly written and produced pictures I've seen. "TopFinally!! After all this time!!! I usually see two or three movies in the theater a week - and have been sorely disappointed over the last two years (I guess you would call the films I've seen over that period "The COVID Movies") by the poorly written and produced pictures I've seen. "Top Gun" was good and "Elvis" - for the most part - but most of the movies have had no real script - just an awful lot of CGI and an overload of action to hide the fact that Shakespeare and all of his writers have most certainly departed the scene in the interim. Buuuut, this is not one of those movies!! You get into this piece - and by the time you've gone through two-thirds of it - you're left with the feeling that this is TRULY A GREAT MOVIE - WITH FINE WRITING AND ACTING AND A GREAT MESSAGE!!! Please, forget the professional reviewers on this film (I suppose it wasn't "politically correct" enough for them; instead - the story went along themes of losing and then winning and then losing and forgiving and fighting to find oneself again)!! This is a great movie - that makes you want to go back into the theater and see it again and then later on - once more!!!… Expand

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KGriego505

May 2, 2023

Loved loved loved this movie!!!!! It was excellent!!!! I am going to recommend it to all my friends!
There was no sex, no bad words, no vulgarity, no violence, no homosexuality and no nudity. Just a well told story which was well acted. It is for all ages! Has laughter, sadness, happiness,Loved loved loved this movie!!!!! It was excellent!!!! I am going to recommend it to all my friends!
There was no sex, no bad words, no vulgarity, no violence, no homosexuality and no nudity. Just a well told story which was well acted. It is for all ages! Has laughter, sadness, happiness, excitement etc. Brought back a lot of memories! It is so good!!!!… Expand

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Dodogame

Jun 14, 2023

I'm changing my rating, it's incredible! The ending is amazing. The journey is immense and moving. It's a very good film to watch.

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johndoe2014

Sep 4, 2023

Ok it is not the Godfather. But it is a lovely movie. It is a throwback to how movies were made before everyone needed to be dragged through the dirt. What he did was inspirational. The movie showed the actual events that are amazing. Not perfect, but imminently enjoyable.

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Awallis

May 21, 2023

Was a good movie but it felt like it could have gone in more depth. But is a great story and was entertaining movie.

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Mauro_Lanari

Jul 3, 2023

(Mauro Lanari)
To biopics on alleged uplifting true stories, I prefer sports movies with fictional protagonists but which speak of the ideals related to sport itself. Instead, these are either often commissioned and/or produced by the interested parties or are resolved in the hagiography of(Mauro Lanari)
To biopics on alleged uplifting true stories, I prefer sports movies with fictional protagonists but which speak of the ideals related to sport itself. Instead, these are either often commissioned and/or produced by the interested parties or are resolved in the hagiography of the protagonist with rhetorical amplification of pre-established values and not only in the USA.… Expand

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