Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
Bad boy or football genius? Famed French footballer Nicolas Anelka's controversial legacy is examined in an unflinching documentary.
A competent sports documentary that takes an honest, unflinching look at one of football's most enigmatic and controversial figures. The biographical structure is straightforward but benefits from good access and candid interviews that reveal Anelka's complex personality. Cinematography is functional and standard for the documentary format, relying heavily on archive footage. Novelty is modest — it follows familiar sports-doc conventions but the subject himself is genuinely singular and compelling enough to lift it above the average footballer biography. The ending provides reasonable closure on his legacy without offering any particularly revelatory insight.