Movie review Invictus

Invictus (2009)
MPAA rating: PG-13
Reviwed by: Julian Gatta
Gender: Sport drama
With: Matt Damond and Morgan Freeman




The 2006 movie Invictus is a true story that occurred in south africa, in the one Nelson Mandela (Morgan freeman) joined forces with Francois Pienar (Matt Damond), the captain of the national rugby team. to unify the country. The movie is about how Mandela used Rugby to unify South Africa. As a president, Mandela needed to do something about the raciall and economical problems that were attacking South Africa.


The movie was set in the year 1995 when Mandela was South Africa´s president. The Rugby World Cup took place in South Africa that same year. Clint Eastwood got inspired in the history of Mandela because he "moves oceans", what he had don was amazing, it is almost impossible to make such an enormous change in the history of a country with all the raciall and economical issues that were developing in South Africa. To unify a nation using rugby as a weapon is something really hard to do and much more in Shouth Africa because rugby was saw as an sport for "white people", it was like a separatist sport, no one colour guy would ever thought ever in playing rugby. One team, one nation is the technique that Mandela applyed in South Africa as a president. HE made people stop thinking rugby was a racist sport  only played by white people. Nelson Mandela just talking with the people of South Africa convenced them to support the rugby national team, so at the end they´ll finish being one team,one nation all supporting their national team as the national symbol.

The movie is about this beutifull and also gloomy story of South Africa as a un-unified country who whent through horribles problemns of racism and inequality in social classes, almost the half of the population was starving and unemployed, economy was awful in South Africa between 1940 and 1995. in the actuality economy still being bad but not like it was twenty years ago.

Nelson Mandela after been in jail for years came out like the president of South Africa. He knows that the must made a change in the country, and the best idea he has was to unify the nation with a sport, like I said before one team, one nation. So, he puts all his effort in a single rugby team, riskung all he had as a president and riskin his country security too. Mandela and Pienare started working together to improve the efficiency of the rugby team to lead them to the final of the Rugby World Cup.

I personaly don´t recomend this movie, because the way the characters performs they rols is just not the indicated to this kind of movies, but it is also a charming story base on history facts. Something I highlight is the awesome casting this movie had, we are talking about Morgan Freeman and Matt Damond! Not to mention they are awesome actors I just think they dont fit in this movie. It would have been much better if the climax change a little bit and make it more tragic, also they could use more facts and politicals documents written by mandela when he was the president.