Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

This English documentary is very misleading. Check out the footage at 02.40 - it clearly shows an Indian or Pakistani street. We then get introduced to Ronaldo as being brought up in some kind of Brazilian (03.12 and again at 07.38) or Filipino favela (03.40) (which the narrator points out is the poorer area of Madeira - NONSENSE, that kind of housing does not exist there and it never has. The footage clearly shows people of colour (in those favelas) so this could have been filmed in Africa - the greater majority of the Madeira population is white. Yes his upbringing was poor - but NOT that kind of poor. It's disgusting enough that footage about Brasil, Phillipines, Africa and India/Pakistan is used to introduce us to his upbringing. At 07.45 we see he moved to Lisbon where we see part of a stadium on which it can clearly be read "West Stand" - HELLO... In Lisbon their stadium's areas are written in Portuguese not English. The re-enactments by Brazilian actors are also disappointing. Apart from the actual football and live interviews and comments this documentary is hog wash.

This is such a bad patched, randomly assembled documentary film that I've ever viewed. there were even some from an old movie. The poorly patched works littered around with boring narrations from different people. There was nothing special to tell a good story but only with some patchworks cut here and there to assemble an indifferent story. I really doubt people would fall for Ronaldo by this lousy film.I just viewed the newer "Ronaldo (2015)" couple of days ago, comparing it with this horrible film, that one suddenly becomes so good, because the 2015 released film is very up close and personal. When you watched it, you were like standing or sitting next to Ronaldo in his car, his home and traveled with him everywhere he went. Yet this one, yuck, just with terrible boring stuff with terrible narration. I strongly suggest that you skip this and watch that film instead.

Watch this film! Cristiano Ronaldo is one of those athletes that cause a stir wherever he goes - not only because he is an excellent soccer player - but because he owns his star power. This documentary demonstrates this with video footage of Ronaldo on & off the field, along with dramatizations that hone in on the emotion of specific moments in his childhood. I enjoyed seeing Cristiano grow from a youth amateur player to the mega star he is today, and learning things about him I did not know. He has a generous heart and wallet, for example. And, the comparisons to Messi & Beckham - and even Pele - are interesting & food for thought. Overall, this is an entertaining look at an exciting soccer legend in the making.

Before seeing this documentary all I knew about Ronaldo is that he is attractive, dates models and likes to take his shirt off. However after watching this documentary I learned that there is a lot more to him than the flashy side we often see. First off Ronaldo grew up dirt poor in a small island off the coast of Portugal. He was so poor that he often missed meals. The only thing that got him through was a soccer ball, which he brought with him everywhere he went. Also I learned that he has a huge heart. He tries to give back to his hometown and is known to pay for surgeries of children suffering from cancer. All and all I learned that there is more Ronaldo than meets the eye.