Clint Eastwood returns with this solid film about true leadership that's inspiring and touching. The story about how South African President Nelson Mandela found an ally in rugby team leader Francois Pienaar to reunite his country when they went to win the World Cup in 1995. The ever reliable Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon are perfect as the leads. Eastwood's no nonsense style lets the story unfold without much interference. YRCinema's coverage of films on DVD.The title refers to Mandela's favorite poem by English poet William Ernest Henley:
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
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