The movie Air is just… air.
Under Ben Affleck's weirdly flat direction, the story of the Air Jordan feels oddly earthbound. The film bro chemistry with Damon fails to forge the fierce Nike spirit into rousing cinema gold.
I'm up in the air about the Amazon Studios production Air. Ostensibly, it's about how a scrappy––if recently turned public––Beaverton, Oregon shoe startup, Nike, lost its renegade mojo in a quest for safe quarterly profit, only to regain it through the ballsy signing of a signature talent: North Carolina Tar Heel basketball star Michael Jordan.
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