Ben Affleck has done it again, proving once again that while he’s good as an actor, he’s even better as a director. He has already achieved this with his intense kidnapping crime film “Gone Baby Gone”, with the Heist thriller “The Town” and most recently with the entertaining, rousing “Argo”, which won a total of three Oscars. Whether Affleck’s latest prank has what it takes to win big won’t become clear until next season. The film itself is in the tradition of his earlier directorial work but once again a strong piece of entertainment – now hurtling from cinemas to home theaters at full throttle.
“Air – The big hitwas released in German cinemas on April 6, 2023 – just five weeks after it opened in cinemas, the film is already available as a subscription Amazon Prime video:
So if you didn’t get a movie ticket for the movie and would rather wait until you can catch it up at home, the wait is now over. And in this case, we can especially recommend that you take a look. Than at the officer MOVIE STARTS review gave “Air” 4.5 out of 5 stars – making it one of the best movies of the year so far.
“Air – The big hit”: pure entertainment cinema
With “Air,” Affleck enters into nothing short of one of the biggest and most spectacular business deals in sports history — in which Nike and basketball icon Michael Jordan came together and revolutionized Air Jordan.
When his colleague Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon) suggested he sign Michael Jordan in the early 1980s, Nike founder Phil Knight (Ben Affleck) was skeptical of the idea. After all, the deal would be a record amount for a basketball player who has played less than a minute in the NBA!
While the competition from Adidas is also staring at the young talent, Vaccaro takes his fate into his own hands. Because he has realized that the road to a contract is through Jordan’s mother Deloris (Viola Davis) – and is now pulling out all the stops to bind the basketball player. Even if he has to create his own line of sneakers just for Jordan…
“Actually, in ‘Air’, Ben Affleck only talks about the making of a silly marketing deal – and yet the classic underdog story easily leaves the vast majority of comedy spectacles and action blockbusters behind in terms of entertainment value,” it reads. other things, in the conclusion of the official MOVIE STARTS review, in which “Air” just misses the top score.
Based on the story of a supposedly foolish business deal, Ben Affleck created a “terribly entertaining actor* movie theater where you don’t even have to be very interested in Michael Jordan or basketball to have as much fun at the movie theater as you probably can with just a few other movies this year.” Furthermore, the author of this article also hopes that Ben Affleck will set a disguise trend similar to Margot Robbie as Harley Queen or Jenna Ortega with this outfit as Wednesday once did:
By the way, it’s no coincidence that the film, which has grossed nearly $80 million to date on an estimated $75 to $90 million budget, is available on Prime Video so soon after its theatrical release. Amazon Studios originally planned to even release “Air” directly on the streaming platform.
In the end it remained with a theatrical release because the audience reacted euphorically to the (recent) reunion of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon during the test screenings. Fortunately, because that’s how we got to see the great and grandiose star ensemble around the cult duo – which also includes Jason Bateman, Marlon Wayans and Chris Tucker – on the screen.