Asif Kapadia and Joe Sabia's film started life as a home-video tribute to the last days of Federer's tennis career, and that's still how it feels.
When it comes to the Big Three who have dominated men’s tennis for the past two decades, I’ve always favored Roger Federer over rivals Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal. Federer’s game had a multi-surface brilliance and beauty that rarely got obscured by anything extraneous — off-court drama, on-court excesses. You could marvel at the reliable wizardry of a Federer performance and just assume that, in his utterly wholesome boringness, he wouldn’t let you down as a person either.
There’s worthwhile emotion that comes from the filmmakers’ ample access to Federer and many of his contemporaries as they muse on the end of an era, made all the more poignant by the recent French Open fates of Nadal and Djokovic. Plus, it’s generally entertaining to watch Federer highlights. But it would be difficult to convince anybody without a pre-existing interest that this constitutes compelling storytelling on any level.
This is not a “one last run at the title”-style story with dramatic stakes and the possibility of glory — seeconsist of? Well, it’s at least 16 minutes of Federer preparing his farewell social media post and then wondering if he needs to push up the release time to avoid having the news spoiled elsewhere.
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