I watched the movie 'Invincible' yesterday starring Mark Wahlberg as Vince Papale in his story about walking onto the Philadelphia Eagles. It was produced by the same people who did 'The Rookie' and 'Miracle'.
I am a sucker for these sports movies especially ones that are based on true stories. Wahlberg did great in the role as Vince Papale. It was cool also to watch the extra features where they had a lot of footage of Vince Papale on the set and working with them to help better portray his story. I was hoping for some more football footage of hits and stuff, but this really is more about the dramatic side of things, so its cool that they didn't bury the story with overdone scenese and affects.
There was one really good hit in the movie where you see Papale (Wahlberg) running down the sideline and he gets blindsided and completely taken out of bounds. He absolutely gets drilled by the other player. In the bonus features they talked about that hit because it wasn't supposed to happen. The guy was supposed to miss Wahlberg, but they misstimed something and he totally crushed him. The hit was so good and obviously very real so they kept it in the film.
All in all, it was a very cool story. I will put it up there with 'Rudy' and 'Miracle'.
Overall rating A-
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