Borg vs McEnroe

Love this movie. I am ashamed to admit it was made better by the fact that I totalllllyy forgot who won in real life so I was super on the edge of my seat.

If you were watching tennis, even casually aware, during this time you'll remember what you thought you knew. This is a great take on "the rest of the story."

I remember my Mom telling me at that time that Connors had McEnroe's bad boy reputation not long earlier. To me, Connors seemed like the "good" American, and Mac was the ass. We all thought Borg was always "IceBorg". This movie helps understand all that.

Actually I hate tennis. And this movie shows so much tennis, that I should actually hate this movie as well.

But this movie was so thrilling, even though it shows so much tennis, it was so interesting, it kept me on the edge of my seat, that I have to give it a great rating.

Both actors are incredible. I never saw a Shia LaBeouf movie I liked - this is the first where he actually shows what an incredible great actor he is, and that he has to offer so much more than the mediocre acting we know from the Transformers franchise. Sverrir Gudnason I have never seen before and I cannot understand why this guy doesn't have a lot of hollywood projects in the pipeline. The acting is superb, and Stellan Skarsgård is a great supporting actor.

This movie is a great character study, showing how two characters who couldn't be more different are actually quite similar, as they have a similar struggles, even as children - where different paths led to different personalities. And they still struggle with the same problems, they have the same desires, the same pressures to deal with, the same problems. They deal with it differently on the outside, but they are the same on the inside.

It is a well acted, totally thrilling story. It's worth watching, even though it is a nieche movie. Worth your time!

Always seemed on the verge of being an epic storytelling, but fell short in depth & execution in the end. Borg was fascinating and it would have been great to see more depth with McEnroe. The tennis match reenactments just weren't engaging enough and made me wish to just be able to watch the actual matches.

Tense and thrilling on the court, but a little dull off it. Still, it's game, set and match to the actors portraying the two tennis rivals; they held my interest, despite my disinterest in the sport itself.

Fuoco contro ghiaccio. Europa contro Stati Uniti. Costanza robotica contro improvvisazione (fin troppo) umana. Understatement contro overacting. Nel duello tra Bjorn e John c'è la storia del tennis moderno, ma ci sono anche gli archetipi di ogni rivalità che, dall'epica allo sport, ha scandito il confronto tra gli uomini. Alla fine è 7-7 e il vincitore non lo sapremo mai.

The film is like Wimbledon: getting to the end is long, arduous and often uninteresting, but the main event is actually fun to watch, especially when the players are at the top of their game. I'm a huge Shia LaBeouf fan and Sverrir Gudnason was hotter than spit on a Saharan sidewalk. That said, I couldn't have cared less for their origin stories and, truth be told, I don't really care for tennis in general. Those who appreciate tennis more than I do will certainly enjoy the film more than I did.

As a tennis fan and player, growing up I was inspired by Jimmy Connors but who could ever forget Borg and McEnroe. I wouldn't exactly call it a great rivalry, I think they only played each other 14 times but in the 80's there were a small group of players that transformed tennis into the next generation, they were great times!

I so wanted to love this film but for me, to use a tennis analogy, it stuttered to a third set, possibly a fourth but it never made the final fifth set that I wanted. It was slow, ponderous and lacking of any real depth. There were so many errors in the film, something I can't quite get over. The 1980 final and the run up to that match was incredibly well documented and the video still exists to this day so why not make it accurate?

They missed a great opportunity to really show what happened at Wimbledon but failed - as far as I'm concerned. The major problem with the film is that the maker, to keep the tension going until the end, relies on the fact that the viewer doesn't know the outcome of the match. It was ok but could have been so much better.

I vaguely remember the fuss with Borg and McEnroe from my childhood but much like today I had zero interest in sports nor watching it on TV. This movie however had me on the edge of my seat up till the end as if perfectly portrays the tension within the people and on or off the court. A great movie about something so futile that avoids many of the pittraps of other sportsfilms.

It unfortunately isn't good enough to make me watch any sports on TV though.