Hello All,
I know I’m posting this rather early in the day, as I actually saw Eddie The Eagle yesterday at the time of writing this. I got home rather late and truthfully just wanted to get some sleep. I can’t think of a good transition into the review so let’s just do it shall we?
Plot Summary - The movie chronicles the life of Eddie Edwards (Taron Egerton), an Olympic hopeful since childhood who decides to become a ski jumper in order to qualify for the 1988 Calgary Olympics.
Pros - Taron Egerton and Hugh Jackman are greatly cast as Eddie and Eddie’s coach Bronson Peary respectively. Taron really manages to capture Eddie’s determination and eagerness to simply compete in the olympics just for the sake of competing. The film is well shot too, as while there are some cliche moments, most of them are interestingly done enough that you really don’t mind them. The movie is just heart felt enough that you find yourself just rooting for him the entire time regardless.
Cons - That being said, there are still one or two moments that do feel cliched. There’s also a weird thing where a few times you’d watch someone go down a ski jump from a distance only to have it look pretty obviously animated.
Final Score - 9/10
I actually really liked Eddie The Eagle, like a lot. Strangely enough it’s probably one of the better sports movies I’ve seen in awhile, and I can easily recommend this to anyone.
Next: Not sure to be honest. I might either play catch up, or with London has fallen coming out next weekend I might review the first one.
Until then, I’ll see you folks at the movies.
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