The trailer for the Lionel Messi documentary drama has been out for some time now, but it is finally ready to hit cinemas.
Simply titled 'Messi', the film will be released in Spain on New Year's Day, according to AS which confirmed it via Twitter.
Spain is the first country to get the first release of the film, but the movie by Alex de la Iglesia got its world premiere in Rio de Janeiro last July.
The film dramatises Messi's early life and mixes it with documentary footage and talking points.
It has already been screened at the Venice Film Festival, but, up until now, the reviews haven't looked good at all.
The following two quotes is exactly what I mean about the reviews not looking to good:
"Part 'This Is Your Life-style symposium and part traditional documentary with all-too-brief match clips and far-too-long dramatic re-enactments scattered throughout the film will likely be a hot property across European and Latin American territories, though this overly busy, slippery work never comes close to cracking the quiet enigma at its centre, nor assembling its pieces into a coherent whole." Variety magazine's Andrew Barker
"Anyone hoping for a real peek behind the PR of the man they dubbed "the Flea" will be disappointed. But given the major limitation that access was not granted to either the player or his family, as simple celebration Messi definitely scores," Jonathan Holland of the Hollywood Reporter
Are you looking forward to getting your hands on the Messi Movie early January?
