Il Divin Codino: L'art du but par Roberto Baggio

Good film, but just good. It seems Italians struggle when making biopics. They only get half good, just like this.

Baggio is a national hero, and known all over the world, and he had deserved a better film. Actors are doing OK, but the story too poetic. Too clicheed.

"Baggio" is a emotional movie about one of Italy's greatest footballers ever - Roberto Baggio. The movie takes place through his career and his struggle to prove himself as worthy enough.

Although it's a beautiful and inspiring story, the movie in total is just not enough and lacks a lot of features, first of all the time periods are not presented well, it seems like the story is jumping to fast from time to time. I know most of the movie centers around Baggio and Italy's national team during the world cup of 1994 but I would have liked to see Baggio career during Juventus, AC Milan, Inter Milano and so on. Besides it seems like the plot doesn't show enough of Baggio's personal life, why there is no scene of his wedding day or when his children were born?, why the plot jumps so fast in time that we don't get to see much of his life?.

In addition, after Italy loses the world cup there is still 40 minutes left of the film to watch where it's mostly Baggio pitting himself and trying to recover from the tragedy in order to still prove himself worthy. Only to be disappointed when he is not called to the squad of Italy for the world cup of 2002.

Overall I thought this movie lacked a lot of features and simple things such as indicating time and setting, even if it's a story a lot will find to be emotional and inspiring, I find it to be not so divine.

This is not a good movie for several reasons.

First of all if you'd hope to see portrail of why baggio was such a genius player, this movie wil completely let you down ans it actually barely touch football absurdly enough.

It focused mainly on Baggio struggling with injuries,with coaches ,having daddy issues and converting religion.

Fair enough if that would then be very well done,but its not.

This movie feels rushed and jumps over so many important and interesting moments of his career.it all feels totally empty.

Missed opportunity to make a great movie of such a great player.

I think the movie has its quality, but lets be honest here they left out something very important. We know baggio went back to the 1998 france worldcup, and there he fabricated, very cleverly, his own penalty, and scored, that was his redemption. That should have been the ending.

A highly ambitious film that scrapes a pass mark thanks largely to its beautiful cinematography and use of vivid colour. Arcangeli is so spookily similar to Baggio that the transitions between new and old footage are almost seamless. Unfortunately the story of Baggio's remarkable career is simply not told completely or coherently. It's fine for a football addict like myself but for anyone else it would be impossible to get a grasp on just how good Baggio was and how his life and career played out.