Earlier in the year, by sheer luck, I happened to be in the
same room as my uncle while he was watching a documentary on Netflix. That doco
was Bigger, Stronger, Faster*, a film that looked at the issue of steroid use
in professional wrestling and dare to ask if maybe, just maybe, the world was
overreacting to performance enhancement just a bit. Since sitting through that,
I have been rather dubious about today’s film concerning the infamous Lance
Armstrong drug scandal. The reason for that being that, unlike the rest of the
world, I don’t see how demonizing his character helps anyone. As such, I am
seriously worried about this film devolving into a lot of beating down on an
easy target and acting like a slightly more sophisticated Mr. Mackey about how
drugs are bad, mkay? Well, there’s only one way to find out if my rather
pessimistic expectations are met, and bear in mind that these are even greater
than usual. 