Such a frustrating disappointment

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Rewriting historical facts and twisting them for leftist propaganda purposes, this biased crap would make Jesse Owens rolling in his grave, as he was better treated in Nazi Germany than in the US. Adolf Hitler treated Jesse Owens better than his own President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) and that shameful fact is one that CANNOT change no matter how many money are invested into brainwashing people with shitty movies like this and will always be there to haunt the US and leftists worldwide.

Race, the final Frontier ... no wait, that is something completely different. But if there ever was a more apt title than this, is something I can not answer. Right at this moment, none other come to mind that have that double meaning (some might say pun). Yes it is about racing, but it's also about race (also skin color to be more accurate).This being based on true events and actual persons, has a tough task. But it pulls it off. And maybe if it played later in cinemas, it might have had a chance to be considered for an Oscar or two too. As it is, this is a gripping story of a man overcoming many odds to go to an Olympic Event. But is it the right thing to do? What I did like was the morality and the hard questions this did ask. Also the fact that it did paint a broader picture than your average movie. It's still not perfect, but it's still more than solid

Firstly there are a lot of good things about this movie. First, it is a story that needed to be told. Jessie Owens was one of the greatest athletes of all time, yet because he was black his achievements did not give him the rewards it should have. Had he been white he would have been set for life. Sadly this shows what a racist country America is, despite their dictating to other countries such as Nazi Germany and South Africa, America has always practised extreme racism and segregation, especially in the South. The fact that the President did not have Jessie in the White house but entertained the other athletes speaks volumes. Although this is hinted at in the movie, especially near the end when Jessie and his wife have to use the trade entrance to a hotel where they were holding an event in HIS honour, I felt that this could have been shown more in the movie. The racism of red neck type footballers in university was not enough. The other thing that irritated me was the way Jessie's white coach was featured as being almost responsible for how good Jessie was. How true there relationship was is not clear, but him making sure Jessie did not have to work to pay for his college fees was made up. Stephan James does a good job in the title role but looks very little like the real man. Shanice Banton as his understanding wife was very good and stole every scene she was in.So over all a good movie, still worth watching that could have been more hard hitting and accurate.

Use of typical subplot formulas found in docudramas to make palatable to a broad audience, especially with esoteric subjects like track and field, i.e. athlete discord; coach discord; coach w/issues; love interest conflict; outside pressures, and so on. I thought I was re-watching the same script from half dozen similar athletic movies. The problem is that it detracts from any chance of an honest portrayal, of authenticity. So much film time was spent on these distractions that very, very little time was devoted to giving a sense of Owens' hard work in training. An odd inconsistency was the coach teaching a new method of starts with head down and staying low for the first ten or so meters - something that was never done from that scene onward. Interesting subplot was on the German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl who should also show up in "The Boys in the Boat", if they ever finish it.