Based on the story of Jackie Robinson's baseball career, this story dictates how Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford) wants to shake the world of baseball by putting an African American baseball player on a national team that is dominantly all white. Mr. Rickey searches through the rosters of the African leagues and finds Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman). Mr. Rickey interviews Jackie and tells him that to make this work, he must not retaliate at criticism of any kind and do his job by being one of the best baseball players in the league. Robinson agrees and begins a journey filled with life-threatening nights and no support from fellow teammates at the beginning. Throughout this time, Mr. Rickey is pressured by other members of the baseball league to get rid of Jackie, but each time Mr. Rickey shuts them down. As the movie progresses, the crowds start responding favorably to Robinson as well as his teammates, realizing they are changing the worlds point of view.
My Thoughts:
Harrison Ford was spot on in his role of Mr. Ricky. There was a part in the film where Jackie leaves the stadium and is about to go the showers and he asks Mr. Ricky why he had him do this in the first place. And Mr. Ricky was honest with him and said that he remembered seeing the African Americans in the rosters while he was still playing the game and he never seeing them getting the chance to play and never being equal. He felt there was a part of his life is missing. The best line of the film is where Ricky says he finally has started enjoying baseball again since Jackie Robinson started playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Rating:
5 Popcorns
I have nothing to complain about this movie. I enjoyed it from beginning to end and is a great example of storytelling of American Sports History.
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