Flattering biopic zooms entertainingly through an extraordinary, switchback career
he extraordinary and long-gestating comeback story of heavyweight boxing champ George Foreman has taken a long time to tell, perhaps because he has lived his life in Muhammad Ali’s shade, especially since Ali’s sensational underdog victory over him in the 1974 Rumble in the Jungle. In movie terms,turned Foreman into the bad guy who deserved to lose – particularly the nasty macho detail about Foreman having a German shepherd on a lead when he turned up in Zaire for the fight.
We get his tough upbringing in Houston, Texas, where young Foreman is drawn into crime and shown hiding from cops under a house and smearing himself with the flow from the septic tank to put off the sniffer dogs; this is a rock-bottom moment. He joins ain California where he is befriended by Broadus, who introduces him to boxing; Foreman wins gold at the Mexico Olympics in 1968, turns professional, defeats Joe Frazier but humiliatingly loses to Ali in Zaire.
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