Ali (DVD)

Born Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali converted to Islam during the course of his boxing career, and turned his back on his Christian background and slave name. This was to colour much of his life outside of boxing; he divorced his first wife, for example, because although she converted to Islam herself, she refused to dress appropriately. He claimed that fighting in the Vietnam war was against his religious beliefs, leading to all sorts of trouble, including the possibility of a long prison sentence. Despite his personal life, however, he managed to stay on the top of his game in the boxing world, to become one of (if not the) greatest and most revered boxers this world has ...

> Synopsis “Ali” is the biopic based on the life of legendary heavy weight boxer Muhammad Ali from the period 1964, where he clashed with the infamous Sonny Liston, through a decade to 1974 and the now famous ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ fight against George Foreman. > Opinion The first time I sat down to watch “Ali” I actually turned it off after about 15 minutes as it was nothing like what I expected. Not only did I expect a full biopic of his life from his early days but I also had become accustomed to the glitzy, highly polished biopics which Hollywood usually churns out and “Ali” is nothing of the sorts. Instead “Ali” ...

If you like this review? He’ll go down in two. This is the movie to see. Will Smith is Mohammad Ali. I have been looking forward to this movie since I first heard of it. I was too young to appreciate the phenomenon that was and is Ali. I remember my father talking about the rumble in the jungle and the fact that the split glove saved Ali from what seemed like a certain beating. I knew that Ali was a boxer and that his catchphrase was “I am the greatest”. As kids, we would chant this to our vanquished opponents after a playground scuffle. But like so many people of my generation I was not aware of much more of the ...