Pelé: Birth of a Legend (2016)
The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.
Watch Trailer
Cast
Similar titles
Reviews
Historic and relevant. If you are black you will love this movie. Period.
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.
Pele was a great footballer, he won three World Cup with a Brazil that played an exciting and extravagant form of football known as Ginga.This films charts what to me is a fictionalised account of his boyhood days playing football in the poor area of São Paulo that seems to be cliched to the extreme. Being made fun off by the white kids for playing football with his bare feet. Then later on being criticised for his flamboyant style of football.The film comes to life as see the rise of Pele in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden where he played at the age of 17 and still remains the youngest player to score at a World Cup final.It is a rather superficial film, it only concentrates on Pele up to his first World Cup win. The young actor playing Pele shows great football skill. Some of the recreations are well done and the great man himself makes a little cameo experience.
That was the worst movie I saw lately. Very bad made. I don't know how Pele aproved it...It doesn't represent anything real about Brazil. Maybe the mangos and bananas trees are real... It s an American movie with American artists( afro-American, Indian American)that don't know anything about Brazil. It is nothing about football in Brazil or Brazil... Very disappointed.