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5.0 out of 5 stars
Athleticism!,
By Timotee (Torrance, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Victory (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD)
Soccer is an incredible sport! Sylvester Stallone is a goalie for the United States team and plays the Germany team. The ultimate soccer game in the history of mankind. Michael Caine leads a bunch of WWII soldiers and gathers the courage to be victorious! I was offended that they took Pele out of the game so fast. He was powerful! Of course, the movie is slow and builds up to the most striking soccer game of the universe! Stallone jumps in slow motion and hits his head on the ground. Painless to an immortal! Plenty of slow motion to capture the essence of soccer and the energy it takes to kick a ball into a goal! Stallone saves the day by blocking a shot and then a player kicks a ball up so he can nail it with his head to score a victory! What athleticism it took to deliver such an emotional display of sportsmanship! Sylvester Stallone can play any sport and kick tons of sternage!
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Still waiting for DVD,
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This review is from: Victory (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD)
We haven't received the DVD so we can't review. Seems to have taken quite long for DVD to arrive.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Has Parrallels with Real Life Team, Club Dynamo,
By Tom Plum "TC" (Roswell, NM United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Victory (VHS Tape)
Some that comes out of the football soccer world, does not always display the best of mankind, but maybe that is because, the sport is so universal. This movie, puts forward (no pun intended) Football's best foot; and they don't make them like this very often. A feelgood movie in a manner, that some other Stallone movies are; namely Rocky.I can't add, hardly anything to the excellent reviews I have read here, but feel, it does need to be mentioned, there exists a historical precedence for this movie; I am not totally knowledgeable of this myself, save that a Ukrainian team, with some of the nations top stars, defeated the German Luftwaffe team during World War II. Please search out this information for yourself, there is a statue of this team in front of Club Dynamo's stadium in Kiev Ukraine. The fate of the Ukrainian team, was not as fortunate however. In this vein, early in the movie, we see, Caine, requesting some Eastern Europeans to play for the All-Star team, who are currently prisoners under the Nazis, when that request is granted, we see, these prisoners, suffer from both malnutrition and poor treatment from their captors. A book on this topic exists and can be found on amazon, possibly simply titled "Dynamo." As for Stallone, hey, an Italian American, is going to probably know soccer-football, as if it were in his blood, like his countrymen, from Italy; so, knowing this, Stallone does fair enough, even as "the" Yank; it is in the Englishmen's blood, and we get inspired performances from Michael Caine and the others. Pele is magnificent, a pleasure to watch. One German officer, a former top player for his country demonstrates some un-Nazi-like good sportsmanship in all this; and in fact, is the one who grants, the Eastern European players, I mention above, to be granted status in regards to playing for the Allied All-Star game. Just a re-edit note, I do need to rewatch this film, noting one reviewer, cites Stallone plays a Canadian in this movie and thus, fights by the side of the English in battle. It would be nice to ascertain this fact, but to the movie overall, I don't think, it affects this review. Canada having a rich soccer history, with appearances in the World Cup, this would be a curious point.
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