A good movie

Ever since I have heard about this movie, I became really intrigued about it. Indeed, somehow, Roger Ebert chose it as the best movie released in 1980, above 'Raging Bull' no less than that. However, at the end of the decade, it seems that Ebert came back to his senses and picked up 'Raging Bull' as best movie of the 80's and there was no sign of 'The Black Stallion' anywhere. Even so, I still wanted to check the damned thing. Basically, it is a decent family feature but not much more than that, I'm afraid. Indeed, it starts like 'The Blue Lagoon' and it becomes 'Seabiscuit' at some point. I mean, there is no denying that the first 30 minutes, without any dialogs, when you have just this boy and this horse alone on this island (Ebert's favorite part of this movie), you had some rather impressive scenes visually speaking and the tone was also very nice as well. The rest with the horse training and racing was also fairly decent but, all in all, I didn't care much about the whole story. To conclude, even though I don't really share Roger Ebert's enthusiasm about this flick, it is still a decent watch and I think it is worth a look.

7/10