Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
Unprecedented access to Muhammad Ali's personal archive of "audio journals" as well as interviews and testimonials from his inner circle of family and friends are used to tell the legend's life story.
A documentary built around Ali's personal audio journals gives it a fresh structural hook, though the overall approach is fairly conventional for a sports biography. The archive material adds genuine intimacy, elevating it above a standard talking-heads doc, but cinematography is limited by archival footage quality and standard interview setups. Acting is not applicable in the traditional sense, and testimonials from family and friends, while heartfelt, rarely surprise. The ending is respectful and emotionally resonant but predictable given the well-known arc of Ali's life.