The Rumble in the Jungle in all its sprawling wondrousness.
1974. Muhammed Ali takes on George Foreman for the heavyweight championship of the world in the Kinshasa of Mobutu Seke-Seke, monster extraordinaire and tinpot dictator.
The focus is Ali, his extraordinary personality, presence, grit, courage, and skill. He lit up a room with his antics and left those he encountered with a sense of his fundamental decency. Certainly one of the most remarkable men of my time.
This film worked as long as the focus stayed on Ali. Whenever it strayed to other topics it lagged badly. The whole center section seemed to me like filler, inserted to extend the film to the requisite 90 minutes.
Still, this was the best film on Ali I've seen and well worth the time.
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