Secretariat

Secretariat (05/12/2010)

Having a strong interest in Horse Racing, this film appealed to me, plus my daughter really wanted to see it.

We had the cinema to ourselves, obviously another film slipping under the average film goer’s radar! Or maybe they didn’t like films about Race Horses!

Well I had never heard of this horse – Secretariat, but I was blown away by him, not the film, though it was not a bad film, but by the horse and the story of the horse. This was a remarkable story, like Phar Lap from Australia, this horse did not stand a chance, well actually her owner did not stand a chance, or that’s what people thought! The film does it’s best to stay away from the cliched “We have nothing and ,must prevail at all costs”, but fails with a couple of inspiring speech’s along the way. But these are truly forgotten in the final part of the film, as Secretariat bids for the Triple Crown! These 3 races (well 4) are brilliant to watch, and lifted this film just a little higher than it was aiming for. The final race was jaw-dropping, because I’ve never seen a horse do what this horse did. You may think it’s all done for the film! Well that’s what I thought! Except it’s not, I checked, the film depicts the real result, distance, everything that happened was true!

Aside from the horse, the cast did a good job, the direction was superb in the race’s, the script as I’ve said lost it’s way a couple of times, but overall it’s a good film, but the actually story of the horse gives it that edge!

Overall (8/10), a story of a remarkable horse and her remarkable owner!