Overcoming

I really expected to like this film as: a) I'm a procycling fan; b) CSC are my favourite film; c) Bjarne Riis is an interesting character.

However I found the film flawed in several ways. Firstly narration was absolutely terrible, almost no context was given for any event in the film.

For instance there were scant details given about anything about the race which made details of the team efforts seem like an aside. Another example would be footage of the pre-season team training in Denmark; why were they there and what were they trying to achieve?

In order to fully understand the context of the above you would have needed to read procycling publications on regular basis. Fortunately for me this is the case so I could follow the film.

In addition to the poor narration, the footage shot wasn't particularly good, and even less well edited given a really disjointed feeling.

I had high hopes for this which were unfortunately unfounded. However if you agree with a), b) and c) above it's still worth a watch.