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When you think of flight simulation. what excites you? the smart money is on cori‘bat. nerye~ shredding dogfights. precision in ssile strikes and grountl-hugging bombing raids. Some also find the exactitude of realistic simulation appealing. the flaps at so-and—so percent. trrrr‘ at blah blah degrees. etc.
Well. Just lr‘iignt has gone somewhere in the middle ‘.'.’llll Xtreriie Air Ric/rig. This combines the speed of a dogfighter ‘.'.’llli the pacifisni of airliner siiris. placing you in the cockpit of a racing plane. Actually it is a range of racing planes. each ‘.'.’|ll‘. therr own attributes; and ridiculous coioui‘ schemes. the actual racing is fun for a ‘.‘.’lill(,‘ but soon the desire for a fire button sy'xc-ils and it all seeriis pedestrian. But for those first fey-.r runs the sense of speed and the chailenge of the race are as enjoyable as ,rou'll get in any flight sini. ilain Davidson.
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It seemed like a match made in heaven. In the filmmaking corner, Michael Mann, director of recent classics such as Heat and The Insider. In the acting corner, Will Smith, sitcom star, pop idol and Hollywood’s most bankable black name since Eddie Murphy. And in the subject’s chair, the lord of the ring aka the Greatest, otherwise known as Muhammad Ali.
And yet, almost from the first bell, this is among the most sluggish biopics on record. Mann seems in awe of his central character, the writing team of four has collectively dragged any tension from the story and while Smith gets the voice and actually looks like Ali from certain angles, that doesn’t mean he gets near to inhabiting the legend. Inside the ring, Ali covers the glory years from defeating Sonny Liston in 1964 to become world champ right through to the 1974 Rumble in the Jungle against the barbecue grill-loving George Foreman. Though, you’d be better served digging out the real life story of that battle in the stirring documentary When we were Kings.
Away from the canvas, we look in on his relationship with a clutch of women, his kinship with Malcolm X (Mario van Peebles) that led to his adoption then expulsion from the Nation of Islam (the organisation which had inspired Ali to ditch his slave birthname Cassius Clay) and his refusal to fight for the US in Vietnam.
This should have been a great film about a bouting boy but the Muhammad myth appears to have run rings round Smith and Mann.
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Mark Wahlberg is the coyei' band star plucked from obscurity along ‘.'.’lili simpering girlfriend .Jennifer Aniston. But let's hope this saccharine tale is only inspired by. not the reality of Judas Priest. \i‘y/here are the other essential elements to any good r'ock'n'roll story: sex and drugs? What promises to do for cock rock '.'.ihat Boogie Nights did for pornography comes across like nothing more s:nisfer than the I‘l'irtedge Flinn/"u :n spandex. i\.".’arner Home Video VHS rental: DVD rental r‘etaili illeni‘y Northmorei
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