Release dates
September 20, 2016
107 months agoVOD / Blu-ray / DVD
Released
TBA
Pelé: Birth of a Legend release date
The movie Pelé: Birth of a Legend is already released on Cinema, VOD, Blu-ray and DVD in the USA. The upcoming Streaming release date in the USA is to be announced.
What the critics say
Based on 9 reviews, Pelé: Birth of a Legend gets an average review score of 47
Birth of a Legend exists on the same level as Miracle‘s portrayal of 1980’s gold medal-winning US Olympic hockey team (there’s even a match against the Soviet Union to boot).
3171d ago
Inspiration, old-fashioned style, is the main course being served in Pelé: Birth of a Legend. In essence commissioned by the soccer icon, who is credited as one of the picture’s executive producers, “Pelé” is hagiography. But appealing hagiography.
3171d ago
I would be happier with a documentary on Ginga narrated by the man himself. With subtitles, even.
3171d ago
Pelé: Birth of a Legend is too earnest and single-minded to be hagiographic, and the final moments are moving in spite of their predictable trajectories.
3171d ago
Pelé is to soccer what Michael Jordan is to basketball, which given "the beautiful game's" global reach puts him in contention for the world's most influential athlete.
3171d ago
A predictable and ham-fisted kids’ flick appears to be the aim of this attempt at committing the story of the Brazilian football great to celluloid, and it shows.
3171d ago
The film’s director of photography, Matthew Libatique, makes “Pelé” more than an eye-moistening anthem for a built-in global audience.
3171d ago
In the end, ginga is nothing more than a device for dramatic conflict, as Pelé's series of stubborn coaches demand that he conform to a playing style that shuns any display of eccentricity, which Pele forlornly agrees to, until the team struggles, prompting him to break ranks and be rewarded for his efforts with victory.
3171d ago
With so rich a story to tell about poverty, race and talent, a reliance on sports movie clichés sinks this bland feature about one of the 20th century’s most beloved athletes.
3171d ago