This was clearly done on a very low budget and it shows in the production values it is clearly an attempt to tell a story about a compelling and tragic individual by people who don't know anything much about chess - but that's not what I hold against this film.It is presented in a pseudo-documentary style - the attention to detail and accuracy in recreating some existing news footage and interviews with Bobby is uncanny.
Thanks to the title of this movie, and because I am one of the million fans of Bobby, I was thrilled sitting in front of my TV and starting it. About 25 minutes later I made my first brake, not because I was tired, but urged to my chessbooks to see if I had really so wrong informations about this chess star.
After seeing the trailer for Bobby Fischer Live, I managed to track it down and could not have been more disappointed. The film fails on so many levels that it is difficult to know where to begin.
I hardly never vote 1 but this film asks for it. Beside the awful cast, role-play, event & scene selection you might think this movie is funded by guys who hated Fischer more then he did other way around.
Bobby Fischer and I have a connection of sorts. I only knew about chess as 1972 began, a 26-year-old who had no idea what chess really was, and certainly no idea how it was played.
