Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Chariots of Fire (1981)

I don't know what shocked me more 1. Reading on IMDB that the actor playing the main role of Eric Liddel (Ian Charleson) died of AIDS at the age of 40 in 1990. or 2. How great the second half of this movie was.

The first half bored me to tears. The second half was 4 stars all the way. How refreshing it is to see a movie come out of Hollywood that actually has God as the main them woven throughout the script. Very suprising and impressive.

This movie as good as it was will not make my list. I felt the director could have done more with the love interest inbetween Harold Abrahams and the actress. The first half just dragged on WAY to long for me.

2 comments:

Adam Pfaff said...

I felt the theme of God first was what inspired me about this film. It is a rare find.

Ryan Lambert said...

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