This is more than a movie about baseball, it’s about courage, integrity and a shift in perspective. It can be very hard to watch at times because it is also a movie about hate, ignorance and the rape of a soul. The performances are stellar. Chadwick Boseman is perfect in the role. I tend to give high ratings for movies that inspire. This life is inspirational and the movie succeeds in capturing it in a dramatic 2 hours and 8 minutes. I give this film a 10 (inspirational) out of 10. [Drama]

Despite loving baseball, sport biopics, Chadwick Boseman, I never got around to watching this one. Due to my lovely Movie Club, I was prompted to finally check it out. It is about as solid as expected. Everything about the movie, cast, plot is on par with any quality expectation you may have. Rating: 3.5/5 - 8/10 - Would Recommend

No idea if this was anywhere near based on real life events (I'm not American, I don't know baseball) - but it was a great movie, with a great bit of sports and emotion. You can see where Chadwick Boseman got such a great reputation after movies like this. Definitely recommended

Jackie Robinson as a superhuman archetype, standing up to fierce racism and intentional beanballs with the same level of quiet resolve and solemn dignity. It's the sort of movie that writes itself, for better and (more commonly) for worse: one dramatic figure stands against the perils of an acidic hive mind and slowly turns the tide. On the very few occasions where we see cracks in Robinson's veneer, the film is intensely interesting. That's the real draw, to me, how a fiery man struggled to tame his very loud emotions in the pursuit of an insurmountably lofty, important ideal. 42 only gives us a brief taste, sadly, choosing instead to invest its time in tired, overplayed vignettes (hey, it turns out southerners were resistant to integration) and a thin, after-school-special grade performance from its cast. Harrison Ford is a lot of fun as the brash, cocksure executive Branch Rickey, who chose to integrate MLB on his own volition, but he's so makeup caked and under-inspected that it's tough to see the role as more than just a particularly eccentric joyride. Mildly effective, with a few dashes of quality spice, it whiffed on the potential to be so much more.

Great great casting to tell a story in modern movie makings about one of the best and most impactful storylines in American sports as it follows the Jackie Robinson story in the midst of him rising through the ranks and the impact it made. The scenery and filming, along with the intensified scenes of conflicts due to the impact of the overall event, is what makes this film so good and worth watching multiple times. However, something felt off and therefore it's not a 10/10.