Ben Affleck’s all-star sports biopic on the creation of Nike’s iconic Air Jordan shoe is corporate propaganda to be sure, but the real-life underdog tale still delivers the entertainment goods.
DUBAI: Ben Affleck’s fifth film as a director chronicles sportswear giant Nike’s efforts to land Michael Jordan as a sponsored athlete in the eighties. The film takes place in 1984 – and don’t we know it. The opening montage packs in almost every pop culture reference synonymous with the eighties as the opening chords of Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing” (an apt metaphor)