Reviews for this film from our members:
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Luke Bonanno @ DVDizzy.com
- Excerpt: 42 is more or less what you expect it to be: a sharply-produced, widely appealing dramatization of Jackie Robinson’s ever-inspirational story. At times, it relies too heavily on invention as it paints its characters in broad strokes.
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: It manages to be something that inspirational biopics, in my experience, virtually never are: inspiring.
- Kevin Carr @ 7M Pictures
- Excerpt: It’s a button-pusher of a movie, as these inspirational sports films usually are. But that’s okay.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: … the film has warmth, a genuine love of its subject shining through.
- Jim Dixon @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: “42” hits it out of the park. This Jackie Robinson biopic is a cinematic grand slam – honest, powerful, inspiring and above all, entertainin
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: The film is by no means subtle … but this is not a subtle period the film presents.
- Dustin Freeley @ Movies About Gladiators.com
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: An inspiring reminder that we need real-world heroes to expand the limits of our own aspirations.
- Oktay Ege Kozak @ Oregon Herald
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Dan Lybarger @ Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Excerpt: Robinson’s full story is complicated and fascinating, so the ideal film about him would be one where his risk-taking offensive strategy would be reflected in the storytelling. Helgeland hugs the base, whereas Robinson would have stolen it.
- John Nesbit @ Old School Reviews
- Excerpt: touches the well known base paths of Robinson lore without penetrating the man’s heart
- Marcio Sallem @ Em Cartaz [Portuguese]
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: 42 seems polished and watered-down, cinematically. Still, the story is an important one, showing the genesis of a real American hero.
- Matthew Sorrento @ Film International
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: Inspirational,but in the heavy-handed way more characteristic of sermons than really good movies.
- Phil Villarreal @ COEDMagazine.com
- Excerpt: All in all, 42 isn’t quite up to the standards of the other movies in the series, 1 through 41. One can only hope that the inevitable sequel, 43, will be up to the task to return the franchise to its former glory.
- [New – 9/12] | Amber Wilkinson @ Eye For Film
- Excerpt: A handsome and suprisingly sturdy undertaking that explores the insidious effects of racism with a sharp eye.
