Invictus

I feel like Invictus is finally going to stop the slump of horrible movies in the theaters and start bringing in watchable movies again. It looks like a good sports movie, but has a heartwarming story about a country uniting after the end of the racist regime (apartheid). Matt Damon looks like he does a pretty bad job at first glance, but he probably can't bring down any performance by Morgan Freeman AND the movie is produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, which means it is probably pretty-pretty-pretty good.

My only concern about this movie at first glance is that it is a sports movie about a team that starts bad and ends up champions and overcomes their racial prejudices in the process in order to succeed. This doesn't sound like it should be a concern, but this is pretty much the plot of Remember the Titans. In short, Invictus looks like Remember the Titans except more epic since they are uniting a country and their black mentor is Morgan Freeman as the President as opposed to Denzel Washington as their coach. I have faith that Clint Eastwood can pull it off and make a great movie though and it will be interesting to see a movie about rugby for a change.