Reviews for this film from our members:
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- José Arce @ LaButaca.net [Spanish]
- Excerpt: La vida de Madiba, a escena en una propuesta que pasa de puntillas sobre todos los temas que toca sin profundizar prácticamente en ninguno. Parece más bien un producto audiovisual de apoyo a algún manual didáctico sobre el líder africano.
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: An inspiring biodrama about the art of leadership pioneered by Nelson Mandela based on love and forgiveness.
- Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog
- Excerpt: Less a film than a Wikipedia article come to life, Justin Chadwick’s Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom suffers from the same problem that afflicts pretty much all biopics: the impossibility of condensing an entire lifetime into a few hours in a way which doesn’t feel stodgy or reductive.
- Michael Dequina @ TheMovieReport.com
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom certainly benefits from its iconic, inspiring subject, but it’s also too perfunctory to do him justice.
- Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Relentlessly respectful, yet lacking the intense emotional punch that would have made it great.
- Travis Hopson @ Punch Drunk Critics
- Excerpt: There’s never a scene that encapsulates who Mandela was and why he was the driving engine in apartheid’s ultimate collapse.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Bit of a shame that a man who looms so large in the hearts and minds of so many has been packed neatly away into a film that is handsome, respectable, and just a tad stodgy.
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- [New – 5/15/14] | Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: A womb-to-tomb biopic that is so overstuffed that you realize that it’s not only bad, but it’s out of date.
- Diego Salgado @ Cine para Leer [Spanish]
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom may serve its purpose in giving us the Cliff Notes version on this influential man, but it misses some opportunities.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: A respectable effort, but far from an inspired one.
