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Pawn Sacrifice (2015)

September. 18,2015
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American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.

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Chatverock
2015/09/18

Takes itself way too seriously

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InformationRap
2015/09/19

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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filippaberry84
2015/09/20

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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Nayan Gough
2015/09/21

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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muons
2015/09/22

The central theme of the movie is about the historic face-off between the two chess grandmasters of early seventies. The first forty minutes or so stand as a background with a fast-forward narration from Fischer's childhood through his adulthood as a prodigy. The second half is dedicated to the famous Reykjavik chess match with Spassky. Before seeing the movie, I quickly went through the wikipedia article about Bobby Fisher and honestly, found it more interesting than the film itself. Bobby Fisher certainly had an interesting life with ups and downs from his birth to his death and it would be impossible to capture all the important milestones of his life in 115 min. So, the film correctly focused on the culmination of his professional career in 1972. However, despite all the embellished drama over the match, the depiction of the events with a style reminiscent of Rocky Balbao series seems too familiar. Besides that, the hiccupy flow of the movie fails to keep the audience attached. Tobey's acting was good but his potrayal of Fischer as a sociopath went a bit overboard.

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willowwear00
2015/09/23

Never has there been a competition movie where the "hero" is so loathsome. The funny thing is, Fischer was much MORE loathsome in real life than as portrayed in the movie. In a more normal world, someone who acted like Bobby Fischer would be locked in an insane asylum and not foisted on the world because of a particular genius. At the same time, the movie is gripping. I came of age the summer of 1972 so everything that happened that summer is still so vivid to me. I watched every second of every game, chessboard in front of me. Anyone of a certain age should really see this movie and relive the period.

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Andres-Camara
2015/09/24

It is a film that without being a movie, at least yes that manages to keep you until the end. It is a way of learning something of what happened in this piece of history.I do not usually like either of the two main actors and at least Tobey does not play an impressive role, if he can be convincing.The movie tries to be a good movie, the problem is that it does not get to be it. When you're watching it, you see it's left in every department to be a great movie, none of them are on a level to be great.Photography is not a great photograph. It is a correct photograph, but not astonishing. If it gets you into the age but not more.It's pretty well set up. You think it's the time but at the same time, something fails, there is something that tells you that it is not total. It has a direction that to be Edward Zwick falls short. He is a great director, but this is not his best project. I do not usually like his planning, but he usually gets you completely focused on his films. In this one it does not obtain at all. It has good rhythm and tempo although some moments of archive take me out of the film.I think it will be a movie that will not go beyond its year

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Alexander Whillas
2015/09/25

Its hard to say what this movie is about.Its not about chess, as never are you shown what is going on on the board nor is it explained or put into context. We're told the climatic game is considered the greatest game of chess ever played (by some) but we're not told why. Its like being told there is something beautiful behind the curtain and then never shown.Its not about Bobby Fischer. This might come as a surprise but by the end of the movie you haven't spend more than 2 minutes in a row in the same room as him. You are not given enough details about him to sympathise or loath him. Just a lot of long dumb looks which are never explored. You are again never shown inside his head.Finally, its not about the cold war for the same reason it is not about Bobby Fischer, because no time is spent on it, the people involved nor their relations. Your just told its on and its the US vs. USSR.'Searching for Bobby Fischer' is a much better move about Bobby Fischer and chess and its not about ether of those things, officially.

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