To call this a documentary is an insult to actual documentaries. I'll be generous and say that fifteen minutes of this sixty minute mess is like a documentary; we have interviews and voiceovers and we learn about forgotten Brazilian Soccer hero Garrincha. The rest is random clips of Soccer games or celebrations and, inexplicably, still photos that they'll have up uncomfortably long or will track across or zoom in on (usually on someone unimportant). If you look at all the positive reviews for this video (or 90% of all reviews to be fair), they are all either in a foreign language or from a soccer fanatic; the only people who are enjoying this are people who were already really into Garrincha and were going to love this regardless of the quality. The editing is terrible, there is very little as far as content, all the game footage is presented without any sort of commentary in all but one occasion, which leaves the audience no idea what's happening. I don't know which of those players is Garrincha and most of the time I couldn't even figure out which team was Brazil. The "documentary" doesn't even have a real story line and just sort of ends after a World Cup game with no real reason. We get very little beyond "Watch some of this game that Garrincha played in" (and one he wasn't even a part of). It's not like this is highlights or anything, it's just some clips they could rummage together. There is no filmmaking worth a damn and unless you are a real big Garrincha fan, you'll be incredibly bored and confused for the last thirty minutes and disinterested for the first.

To call this a documentary is an insult to actual documentaries. I'll be generous and say that fifteen minutes of this sixty minute mess is like a documentary; we have interviews and voiceovers and we learn about forgotten Brazilian Soccer hero Garrincha. The rest is random clips of Soccer games or celebrations and, inexplicably, still photos that they'll have up uncomfortably long or will track across or zoom in on (usually on someone unimportant). If you look at all the positive reviews for this video (or 90% of all reviews to be fair), they are all either in a foreign language or from a soccer fanatic; the only people who are enjoying this are people who were already really into Garrincha and were going to love this regardless of the quality. The editing is terrible, there is very little as far as content, all the game footage is presented without any sort of commentary in all but one occasion, which leaves the audience no idea what's happening. I don't know which of those players is Garrincha and most of the time I couldn't even figure out which team was Brazil. The "documentary" doesn't even have a real story line and just sort of ends after a World Cup game with no real reason. We get very little beyond "Watch some of this game that Garrincha played in" (and one he wasn't even a part of). It's not like this is highlights or anything, it's just some clips they could rummage together. There is no filmmaking worth a damn and unless you are a real big Garrincha fan, you'll be incredibly bored and confused for the last thirty minutes and disinterested for the first.