Pelé: Birth of a Legend
Pelé: Birth of a Legend
PG | 06 May 2016 (USA)
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The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Mabel Munoz

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

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Cheryl

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Billy Ollie

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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Neddy

Historic and relevant. If you are black you will love this movie. Period.

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coverplex-12802

Very inspirational. Absolute outstanding talent portraited very well here in this movie

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thwheeler-44699

What could have been a really great movie was ruined by ill-timed and lengthy flash-backs and entirely too many gratuitous slow-motion edits, and choppy camera work. Had the movie been created by seasoned professionals, it would have been 50 minutes long, instead of an hour and half plus.

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Artur Machado

Pele's rise from the slums of São Paulo to Brazil's first World Championship conquest at the age of seventeen is portrayed in this biographical drama.The story of Pelé goes much beyond his 17 years and the formidable conquest of Brazil's first World Cup. While the film serves to get a sense of how the slum's kid became an instant legend, it's only a small portion of his great story. One decision that I consider terrifyingly unfortunate is that although the actors are mostly Brazilian, the language used is English, which removes part of the realism and authenticity of the film and almost seems to have been 'dubbed' in a really bad way: it becomes very distracting and certainly downgrades the acting! The dialogues are very bad especially in the first half of the film and surely the writers used some 'historical freedom' for cinematic effect. A very positive point is the cinematography full of vivid colors. On the other hand would have preferred a less Hollywoodian style and a more traditional one, but taking into account the target audience I understand that decision. Good as entertainment and even an inspirational film, but I do not know to what extent it is a totally reliable biography, even with Pelé himself among the producers - always keep in mind the cinema industry' shenanigans regarding 'historical accounts'.I know it's not a documentary and it's just a movie serving well its purpose for entertainment, but it's also far from being the ultimate videobiography, at least for me. So, while I consider this movie to have many problems and truly feel like rating it 4/10, as a fan of 'the most beautiful game in the world' and due to its inspirational tone I'll give it a pass and score it 5/10. - pun intended ;)

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