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Review: ‘Invictus’ is underwhelming

by DFCS on December 11, 2009

From member Bradon Fibbs:

There is only one word needed to sum up Invictus — underwhelming. While the historically significant story is certainly worthy of a film adaptation, Invictus is little more than a clichéd sports drama, and a rather stale one at that.

We open on February 11, 1990, the day Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) was released from his South African prison cell after nearly 30 years of political incarceration. Immediately, the film shows us the divided world into which Mandela is entering.

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