Very inspirational. Absolute outstanding talent portraited very well here in this movie

This is a truly wonderful film that all the family can watch. Kevin de Paula is excellent as Pele and all the supporting cast were just brilliant. the early parts of the movie were very entertaining and showed Pele's early life with his friends and the antics they got up to. There are some truly funny moments and also some sadness. The actors who played members of the Brazilian football team were first class and looked like they could genuinely play, but Kevin de Paula's skills were outstanding and it was like looking at the real Pele.Over all a wonderful movie about a man for whom the word legend really does apply.Loved this movie so much and I am sure I will watch it many times.

Like the excellent Kevin Costner film: "McFarland USA" this movie sensitively shows how sport can significantly alter a people's identity (in this case the entire nation of Brazil was uplifted from a sense of inferiority within the world community, to a pride in their own uniqueness). The acting is good. The sports action scenes are remarkable (how did they get an actor with such great soccer skills?) and the music is by the great A.R. Raman. A lot of care was put into the making of this film, but a lot was lost, I feel, by having the actors speak mostly in English. And it wasn't dubbed English, it was the Brazilian actors trotting out their heavily accented English. That had the effect of taking away much of the authenticity the film had worked so hard to achieve. (That the real-life Pelé has a cameo appearance - and thus takes the viewer out of the scene's intended verisimilitude - is, perhaps, excusable - I can cut it that slack). One more grumble: the movie trailers announced: "With Rodrigo Santoro". I will see anything with him in it - he is a terrific actor. But he appears for LITERALLY FIVE SECONDS! Really! That is unacceptable marketing...'bait and switch', actually. But see the movie anyway. (BTW, I met Pelé in 1984. We talked for about ten minutes, and at one point, after we had been briefly interrupted, he put his arm around me and said: "So, my Brazilian-American friend, where were we?" He had a golden air about him, and yet was completely down-to-earth even though we talked about cosmic reality. To listen to my five minute audio recording about meeting Pelé, search for "Pelé And His Brazilian- American Friend".

This is one of the worst films I've EVER seen & that's a shame because I grew up & fan of Pele' & looked at him as almost a mythical character with his ability to make opposing teams look as if they are playing the game for the first time so when I saw it was a film about the life of Pele' I couldn't wait to watch but then I pressed play & all that excitement went out the window..! First off, it's the life of Pele' so of course that start with Pele' as a child & instead of showing us his childhood they tried to make it funny in which that & a lot of the scenes just didn't work.. Especially the part where they have a play by play announcer on a PA at a game that Pele' & his teammates are so poor that they aren't just barefoot but shirtless as well then the "my Mother & father both have horrible low paying jobs & since I don't want to end up like them Id better make this football/soccer thing work" shtick was agonizingly painful to watch as was the rest of this film but as with all films that I start I show the respect to watch until the end no matter how badly I want to gouge the eyes outta my head with a rusty screwdriver & sadly I've lost an hour & forty three minutes of my life that I would have rather used staring at the sun as I poured rubbing alcohol into paper cuts..! But that's just My-Two-Cent