I don't really feel this is a great film, but it has its moments. It coulda been better. Will gave it all he had, and I respect that. I liked how Michael Mann showed the camaraderie between Ali and Malcolm X, something that was revisited in Regina King's film One Night in Miami... last year. I didn't know about Ali and X's friendship back when I saw this during its theatrical run.

I love how the film shows, well into Ali's legendary match with George Foreman, how Ali felt serious, grave doubts about his future, given Foreman's intense fight. After Ali's victory, Don King cozies over to Ali to give him some sort of fake, good vibe. You don't hear what Ali says, but you can tell by the look on his face and King's reaction to it that it wasn't very pleasant, lol. Right on.

One line of dialogue that I loved and still love in the film also has to do with Don King as portrayed in it. Ali's wife Melinda, played by Nona Gaye, criticizes King as being black on the outside, but white on the inside and flowing with green or something to that effect. To be sure, there were and certainly are plenty of brothers & sisters suffering from, internalized racism even to this day, and I suppose that King could've been one of them. That was good on the screenwriters' part. I felt sorry for Melinda feeling that she had to leave Muhammad when Veronica Porsche stepped in... but such is life.

In closing, this is a film that I can watch over and over again. It's a 7/10, in my humble opinion.