ウィンブルドン5連覇へのプレッシャーと向き合う“氷の男”ビヨン・ボルグと“悪童”としてバッシングを受けていたジョン・マッケンローの闘いを描く。1980年テニス界の歴史的決勝戦を完全再現したドラマ。
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製作費: $7,500,000 (11億円)
興行収入: $16,657,800 (25億円)
推定収支: $9,157,800 (14億円)
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監督: Janus Metz
脚本: Ronnie Sandahl
音楽: Vladislav Delay / Jon Ekstrand
制作: Fredrik Wikström / Jon Nohrstedt
撮影監督: Niels Thastum
制作会社: Yellow Film & TV / SVT / Film i Väst / SF Studios / Sirena Film / Nordisk Film Sweden
You can't be serious! Borg vs McEnroe is directed by Janus Metz and written by Ronnie Sandahl. It stars Sverrir Gudnason, Shia LaBeouf, Stellan Skarsgård and Tuva Novotny. The Swedish Björn Borg (Gudnason) and the American John McEnroe (LaBeouf), the best tennis players in the world, maintain a legendary duel during the 1980 Wimbledon tournament. Cut to the chase, this is one for tennis fans to gorge upon, but even then it's a bit too lop sided to fully delight. Being a Swedish production it's heavily loaded towards the personal worries that were plaguing Borg in the very early 1980s. Sadly this renders McEnroe - one of the games greatest and most colourful characters - as being a support player in what set out to be a biographical pic about sports rivalry. However, what does come across is that both men were driven and actually both were tits for varying reasons. There's unsurprisingly some parental pressures, while Borg feels the strain of breaking records (as his wife chain smokes) and McEnroe strives to get on the ladder to greatness. Sure the tennis sequences don't hold up to scrutiny but both Gudnason and LaBeouf (excellent and excellently cast) come out of the physicalities very well. Ultimately it's a character study that doesn't delve too deeply for equal parties, but come the 1980 Wimbledon final, with one of the greatest 4th sets ever played, you should be hard pressed not to rejoice. Not only in the sport of tennis played to the max, but in how two supposed rivals actually became the best of friends. 7/10
