Smartorhypo
Highly Overrated But Still Good
Breakinger
A Brilliant Conflict
Ricardo Daly
The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.
Freeman
This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
capone666
WimbledonThe problem with dating a tennis player is that the subject of LOVE always comes up.Mind you, the competitive couple in this rom-com uses the term of affection both on and off the court.A British tennis player, Peter (Paul Bettany), nearing the end of his career takes one last kick at the can and lands a wildcard spot at Wimbledon. During the tournament he falls for Lizzie (Kirsten Dunst), the top ranking US female player. Lizzie's father (Sam Neill) disapproves of the union because it's affecting her performance. However, the reverse is happening to Peter's game as he moves up the rankings.While there is a spattering of chemistry between the leads, it's the sharp dialogue, the behind-the-scenes squabbles and the intensity of this upper crust sport that make this predictable love story really work. Unfortunately, when you date another tennis player your bleach budget doubles. Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca
studioAT
If anyone has ever felt that 'Working Title' films have a formula then this is a fine example. Posh Brit meets American girl, throw in some oddball secondary characters played by well known faces and you're off to a winner, aren't you? The fact is no. Despite all the right pieces 'Wimbledon' fails to match the big 'Working Title' hits like 'Love Actually' or 'Notting Hill', mainly because you can see the formula a mile away. The fact that the tennis scenes look notably faked and Bettany and Dunst don't have much chemistry doesn't help either.It should be a big hit, but as this film proves, sometimes the big names don't produce the goods.
bkoganbing
Wimbledon is the story of a pair of tennis players, 119th ranked Paul Bettany who is on the down slope of his career and young and up and coming Kirsten Dunst. Sounds like the recipe for a tennis version of A Star Is Born, but it doesn't quite work out that way.Bettany has seen his better days and is picked as a wild card seed for the Wimbledon tournament the goal of every British player. The younger and faster and stronger players are getting all the media attention, players like young Ms. Dunst over in the United Kingdom with her father Sam Neill keeping a watchful eye.Like Norman and Esther these two mismatched players fall in love, but this Norman Maine does not fall into dissipation. With her encouragement he forces a second wind for his career and finds himself miracle of miracles in the finals.You say these things don't happen in real life, but every now and then they do as Ron Howard's Cinderella Man attests, the real life story of Jim Braddock. In tennis I remember a much past the prime Jimmy Connors winning that last major tournament before packing it in.Audiences love a comeback story and Dunst and Bettany are an appealing pair.
mmphilip
Wimbledon is one of those movies that leaves you wanting more of something, I don't know what though.The scenes at the famous Wimbledon club are absolutely beautiful, Paul Bettany did a superb job in looking like a real tennis pro. The games looked real and engaging, good tennis overall, but....What was missing? Was it maybe the fact that the girl was not a nice person and showed her real personality on court being nasty, crude and spoiled brat? I couldn't help but wonder if a real tennis player like her would even give a second glance to a player like him, a has been!It's a not bad film really, it was obviously made with the uttermost care and it succeed to a point but not into the realms of a great film, and before long it will be forgotten, unfortunately.Watch it if you have no better options, it's at least entertaining, and non-demanding.
