User reviews

This film is really poorly done. This was such an important story for the South African community and it's just disrespectful that Lifetime couldn't be bothered to at least try to get the 'South African' parts right. The accents are terrible, they reference things that don't exist in SA, and for anyone from SA, it's clear that minimal research into our country was done. With a biopic the details matter. I think that if they had done those things right the story would have had so much more depth. This isn't a fictional story and it should have been done right.

I had no particular interest but curiosity to watch this movie on TV. In retrospective if anything I probably would have prefered it to have been a fictional work. But it's not and I feel it is a case of "he says, they say". Being a film with some entertainment value being of some priority, one can not criticise too much how dramatised it was. I prefer straight stories with limited flash back. I regret the actor had a very different look than Oscar. And not sure about the South African accent, I thought it should have been a little stronger but, yes, I'm unsure. It was reasonably acted though and as a fiction would have been also reasonably entertaining. I guess I was too busy to analyse the pros and cons of the account about it. But I find it difficult to believe he could have been innocent. I just felt some people who are used to get what they want may stop at nothing to achieve such a goal. He proved this in his sport. I understand his family is suing the film company, obviously in disagreement with it's representation of the facts... However I'm surprised to see so little reviews here and apologise for not really being an objective reviewer and neither being much talented to review at all, yet I love to do it!

Like the other person said, the film doesn't show just one side of the story. One of the best Lifetime movies of all time.

The acting was good and we finally got to see Oscar's bad side.

I actually bought this movie lifetime is getting better with their movies this one was pretty good