I was well before my time and it was about chess, therefore I guess it wasn’t historically important enough for me to have ever heard of Bobby Fischer. However, this is an incredible film that really showcases Tobey Maguire’s talents as an actor.
As is explained over an over again in the movie, this was a story of a poor boy from Brooklyn who just happened to take to chess like a fish to water. Fischer was incredibly gifted and he taught himself how to play. He, at a very young age, was able to defeat people routinely that had been playing for decades and was recognized by local masters in New York as being something truly special.
Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) truly wants to play and defeat the best in the world but when faced with the Russians he quickly realizes that they are playing as a team and forcing draws rather than trying to win. He calls them out to the international press and this is an embarrassment to what was then the Soviet Union. He causes enough of a stir that the best players in the world, over the course of many years in the late 60’s and early 70’s all play him, and all of them lose.
However, since the Cold War was in full swing at the time the governments of both the United States and The Soviet Union took great interest in ensuring that their particular participant was victorious and a great deal of news coverage and money was dedicated to the showdown that eventually happened in 1972 when Fischer faced then champion Boris Spassky (played by the exceptionally talented Liev Schreiber in the film.)
This movie is a bit slow because, well, how much action can you possibly have in a movie about playing chess? However, it is remarkable because the casting is great, the movie is based on real events, and the pace of the film is kept about as fast as a film that has no ninja fights in it can be expected to proceed. I was entertained and I don’t really even care about chess nor was I alive at the time nor am I particularly patriotic. I found this film to be fun, entertaining, and certainly worth seeing.
7.5 / 10
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