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Most of the supporting cast in Ali is overshadowed by the swaggering performances of ringleader Will Smith and Jon Voight as Howard Cosell. But if you look closely, you will see that the movie's most tragic and comic moments come from Jamie Foxx as Ali's corner man, Drew (Bundini) Brown...
...psychologizing. We don't learn, for example, exactly why he turned on Malcolm X, who had mentored him in Muslimism; we just suddenly see him do so. We don't know exactly what he and Howard Cosell saw in each other; we just see him and the sportscaster (Jon Voight in some rather grotesque makeup) juking and jiving--playing their own mutually advantageous game while the rest of the media stumble cluelessly in their wake. Ali was rope-a-doping the world long before he applied the technique to George Foreman in Zaire...
...actress/model” category so mocked in the film, seems to have been cast for her looks, and the fact that Stiller married Christine Taylor shortly after production wrapped may explain her addition to the production (Kidding, kidding...just barely). Additionally, Jon Voight has a strange, almost unsettling role as Zoolander’s father, and Vince Vaughn is wasted as his brother, whom I kept thinking was about to speak, but didn’t. Maybe they meant to give him some lines, or maybe they just didn’t have time to put them...
...Megahistory and personal history never integrate. Even the assault on Pearl has a curiously abstract air about it. Authentic figures such as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Jon Voight), Doolittle (Alec Baldwin) and heroic black mess attendant Doris "Dorie" Miller (Cuba Gooding Jr.) appear in supporting roles, and the backdrop reaches for historical accuracy?at least until it gets in the way of the main story...
...seems to be taking that to heart these days, with its omnivorous appetite for all things World War II, and the new video-game movie, Lara Croft Tomb Raider, in which Angelina Jolie travels back to spend quality time with her dead father, played by her living one, Jon Voight. If you really want to feel old and out of it (and who doesn't), go see Tomb Raider. I did, and was by four decades the oldest person in the cultist audience of teenagers. (Actually, there was another fellow my age in the theater, but he appeared to have...