Big George Foreman (2023)

Big George Foreman is a dramatization of the life of George Foreman, a former heavyweight champion of the boxing world.

George Tillman Jr. directs the film and does a great job capturing the person and amount of sacrifice George gives to accomplish his goals. While I wasn't a fan of The Hate U Give that doesn't mean it wasn't well directed. He also helped write it alongside Frank Baldwin and Dan Gordon. Dan Gordon wrote one of my childhood guilty pleasures Surf Ninjas. Which is just as stupid and great as you would imagine.

Khris Davis has been in a bunch of movies but this is his first that I would consider where he plays the main character. He was in Judas and the Black Messiah, Atlanta, and Space Jam: A New Legacy. This is his coming out role and from here on out should get some better roles once the strike ends.

Sullivan Jones plays an interesting version of the trash-talking Muhammad Ali. I thought it was interesting that Tillman left out the political-ness of Ali but that was probably a good thing. I had never seen him before in a film but that might be because he's mostly a TV show actor being in Harlem.

Jasmine Mathews plays the beautiful love interest. She's hard to ignore with her picture-perfect face. She plays Mary Joan in the film but you might remember her from The Tomorrow War or perhaps The Man from Toronto.

The film is pretty good, but I waited til Netflix had it up. Result: B.

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