6/10
Not so divine after all 6\10
7 July 2021
"Baggio" is a emotional movie about one of Italy's greatest footballers ever - Roberto Baggio. The movie takes place through his career and his struggle to prove himself as worthy enough.

Although it's a beautiful and inspiring story, the movie in total is just not enough and lacks a lot of features, first of all the time periods are not presented well, it seems like the story is jumping to fast from time to time. I know most of the movie centers around Baggio and Italy's national team during the world cup of 1994 but I would have liked to see Baggio career during Juventus, AC Milan, Inter Milano and so on. Besides it seems like the plot doesn't show enough of Baggio's personal life, why there is no scene of his wedding day or when his children were born?, why the plot jumps so fast in time that we don't get to see much of his life?.

In addition, after Italy loses the world cup there is still 40 minutes left of the film to watch where it's mostly Baggio pitting himself and trying to recover from the tragedy in order to still prove himself worthy. Only to be disappointed when he is not called to the squad of Italy for the world cup of 2002.

Overall I thought this movie lacked a lot of features and simple things such as indicating time and setting, even if it's a story a lot will find to be emotional and inspiring, I find it to be not so divine.
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