I agree with scott_adama #7, Rugby Consultant FAIL!!

Stransky and Myrtens kicking for goals was laughable, they hardly looked like the graceful professionals they were, and the scene when the scrum packs down and the props poke their heads out and watch the clock wind down? Pretty sure that can't humanly happen. Decent movie, but quite corney at times. There is a good message behind it, but i think Nelson could have been better played by Freeman.

Oh and they did rememeber to put in the most important part of the ABs team that year and that was Jonah. He was never poisoned from the reports i heard and he was the only player to get the ball in a scoring position all game. It was New Zealands game plan of "there's 14 players on the field so lets all work together as a team and give it to Jonah" that didn't work. The fact that Jonah Lomu NEVER EVER scored a try against the boks only further proves this point.

Anything that promotes the game and highlights the plight of SA's at the time has to be a good thing. By the way the posioning did occur, that is when the NZRFU started taking their own chefs everywhere. The SA chef involved also wrote a book about the incident detailing payment etc. Although that doesn't explain the last few world cups though!!!

Oh & by the way all the comments about the inside passing ,al la league & the crappy kick offs. Thats American rugby if you ever get to watch a club game there. Lots of little inside passes & poor kicking. So it would have looked good to the American ruggers watching.

The poisoning yeah whatever. I knwo it happened. We all know it happened. However I think you're missing the point of the film. The film wasn't about the match it was about the politics surrounding it in Sth Africa at the time. The rugby was just the hub which the scrpit revolved around & gave an angle for the story to explain what was happening in the country at the time. So, really, if you're makinga film about Sth Africa's new beginning , Nelson Mandela et al why the hell would you mention the food poisoning? Its not relevant to the plot of the story they were trying to tell.

Apparently the whole team got food poisoning but all we hear about is jeff Wilson puking after playing 100 minutes of rugby at altitude. Is this the kind of flimsy evidence to support "food poisoning".

What the whinging AB supporters dont realise is that they are an embarresment to their nation- try learning some sportsmanship instead.

Food poisoning doesn't cause choking by the way- your beloved AB just do not have the Mana to win when it counts. The evidence is there from all subsequent world cups to prove it.

Awwwe #33 spot on mate. All this so called "food-poisoning" talk is about as ridiculous as what went on in the aftermath of the last World Cup loss (Barnesgate).

The 1995 tournament was probably the best of the World Cups to date. The All Blacks played like the team to beat in the tournament up until the last game, where they came up against the home nation, who had 60,000 screaming fans and the inspirational President Nelson Mandela on hand to watch them take on the All Blacks and beat them in what I'll always remember as a great game, despite the loss and the tryless scoreline. Joel Stransky's dropped goal is just as memorable as Jonny boy's six years later.

Obviously this guy was never very good at rugby or has played rugby too long in the USA. The rugby was so rubbish you could only but try and focus on Mandelas search for nationhood.

Some of the players were so unathletic looking I started to wonder if they were golden oldies reps. There was no technical finese in the footage. It's was pure crap. I could have got better footage from kids games.

Every American football movie is well portrayed as high impact and similar to the real thing. Again this made rugby look like mayhem on grass. Movie is average for rugby. Slightly above average for storyline. Why have Americans portraying sports they are not good at. Honestly!!

Plus they destroyed our national iconic haka with a bunch of muppets performing it with no passion. Truly the low point for me.

Recall Mertens scuffing 2 kickoffs. Whether they were intentionally low and guided wobbly kick offs to keep the ball away from the monster saffa pack I am not sure.

Too bad he wasnt in charge of spelling Jonah Lomu's name correctly in the credits though ay?

i bet every one who says there was no food poisoning hasnt even watched the game. you can blatantly see them being sick ie jeff wilson on the side line is throwing up. all the players look sick during the game. we were poisond and its a fact.