I'm afraid I didn't find this very interesting, another of the 'will the underdog triumph?' in the sports genre. Apart from that, there's nothing at stake. The one thing I thought would happen - our protagonist would use his mechanical engineering to find an improvement to the rowing itself - didn't happen. So it's another of Mr Clooney's worthy films about real stories, and it's well enough made, but so what? (Now there's a fleeting reference to Jesse Owens, the black athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics, and actually that sounds like it would have made a much better story.)
Callum Turner (War & Peace, The Last Letter from Your Lover, Emma.), Joel Edgerton, Peter Guinness, Sam Strike, Robert Elms, Hadley Robinson. Photographed by Martin Ruhe (Catch-22, The American) and edited by Tanya Swerling (The Tender Bar, Catch-22, Six Feet Under).
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