Chariots of Fire (1981)

He won't run on the Sabbath

Rather thin material stretched out to fill a whole movie.

Nice music, nice photography, but whether someone chooses to run on the Sabbath or not isn't enough material to make a film of this length.

Like many of the "blast from the past" movies from the 1980s and 1990s, such as A Room with a View (1985), /tt0087892 or The Remains of the Day (1993), the movie is a boring story with enough historical recreations to fool award-giving bodies like the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences into thinking it is a classy effort, rather than to entertain or interest viewers.

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