20.) Race [3/6/2016]

This late-Winter seems to be the time for movies about Olympic glory.  Unlike Eddie the Eagle, which took huge liberties with the source material, Race sacrificed the core of the narrative for devotion to the truth of Jesse Owen's life.  In the end, the movie glanced off Owen's incredibly interesting achievements to ensure that the viewer got a historically accurate image of Owen's life around the Olympics.  Some of the context which was needed to explain why this Olympics was so problematic, was left unexplained.  In the end, the complicated nature of Owen's involvement was noted, but hardly explored.  A good story told poorly.