Air Jordan

Air Jordan

The story of Nike’s longshot effort to sign rising superstar basketball player Michael Jordan to its shoe company in the mid-1980s, an endorsement that seemed impossible at the time but which, thanks to the maverick sneaker salesman Sonny Vaccarro, would become the most significant relationship between an athletic brand and an athlete of all time.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 112 minutes
  • Genre: Drama
  • Stars: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Jessica Green, Viola Davis, Chris Tucker, Marlon Wayans, Chris Messina, Matthew Maher, Tom Papa, Joel Gretsch, Gustaf Skarsgård, Julius Tennon
  • Director: Ben Affleck
 Comments
  • iampooja - 23 June 2024
    Who thought the story about a shoe can be so fascinating
    I have watched this movie few times now. Infact it's an inspirational movie and lifts you up. It's a true story of how Nike made the right choice at right time and changed the world of sports marketing. My teenage son one day asked for Air Jordan shoe and I daid, do you know Michael Jordan still gets a percentage out of this shoe.. my son was surprised and when he watched this movie he was also truly inspired and moved. It's a feel good movie. A huge respect for Sonny who listened to his guy feeling and persuaded till he got yes..this is an example of life lesson for young entrepreneurs as well. In nutshell I absolutely love this movie.
  • jtindahouse - 19 March 2024
    Stop pretending we don't know the outcome
    'Air' is a perfectly well made movie, but boy was it a grind to get through. The reason: we know the outcome. The entire runtime the movie keeps pretending like there's this great suspense over whether or not Nike will get Michael Jordan. It doesn't matter if you are a basketball fan or not, the chances are (unless you've lived your life under a rock) that you know what happened.

    And so all we are left with is to see how it all went down. Not that the movie feels like it always needs to stick to the facts or anything. Whatever works best for the storytelling narrative will do. Then we are just left with this group of characters to be inspired by. The film does its best to make them seem like genius fortune-tellers who pulled off a miracle, but it did feel very forced and that these people weren't really all that impressive.

    All this probably seems very negative for a film I gave 6/10. I didn't hate the movie. I didn't even dislike the movie. There are far worse ways to spend 2 hours than with Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Chris Tucker. I just felt it was very fake and given the "movie polish" even more so than most biographical films are. Not a film I have any interest in seeing again, but I'm glad I've seen it.