Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 16, 2011

Cycling drama doesn't quite race to the finish.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 22, 2007

Business-as-usual for a sports movie.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 14, 2007

It's an underdog story with teeth.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 22, 2007

Competently made and reasonably interesting, but The Flying Scotsman lacks the kind of exhilaration that inspirational true-life sport films generally need to carry them to cinematic gold

| Aug 11, 2007

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 4, 2007

It is a straightforward biography but it treads so gingerly around his mental troubles that you feel something is missing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2007

Why pay to see someone cycling when they do it on the pavement for nothing?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 29, 2007

It moves, but it never flies.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 29, 2007

It's stirring stuff from start to finish which will make our friends from north of the border proud to be Scottish. Go See.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 29, 2007

The underdog plot has been done umpteen times before, of course, but there's something Miller brings to the screen that transcends the familiarity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2007

A paucity of pedal power and an abundance of clich make this Jock-on-a-bike yarn an uphill climb from false start to weak finish. Miller's brooding hero may well be Flying, but the film never gets off the ground.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 29, 2007

Still, there's useful support from Brian Cox as a pep-talking priest, and Gavin Finney's long-take velodrome cinematography is frequently rather excellent.

| Jun 29, 2007

The sinking Scotsman is more like it.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 29, 2007

What cripples the film's success as a sporting movie is the fact that its director, Douglas Mackinnon, struggles to find a way of making the climactic cycle races interesting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 29, 2007

An engaging mix of sports movie and psychological drama that rises above the routine enough times to excuse some of its more predictable moments.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2007

A typically engaging performance from Johnny Lee Miller takes this slightly above the usual underdog movie cliche.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2007

Engaging, impressively directed and superbly acted drama that succeeds as both an inspirational sports flick and a darkly observed study of mental illness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 28, 2007

There's much to admire here, even if you're not into cycling. Douglas Mackinnon's made a fine fist of a great little underdog story.

| Original Score: 4/6 | Jun 28, 2007

Fails to get under the character's skin.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 26, 2007