Looked forward to seeing this movie, and thought the casting was a good opportunity to make a good Knievel movie. George Eads seemed he could put in a good performance as Evel, and you can't take your eyes off Jamie Pressley in every scene she's in. Add Beau Bridges and Lance Henriksen, and it sounds like the makings of a good biography that has never been properly made. Not sure what went wrong here, but there were so many odd mistakes in the shooting, and what seem to be unnecessary changes to historical details that create distractions in watching the movie, and make the overall product seen cheap and "hammy". I tried to stay entertained, but the movie does not have factual credibility and lacks any production polish, it makes it hard to watch. The story flows in a choppy manner, including scenes that detail odd perspectives of his life that go nowhere, and then skips chunks of events and even ends abruptly. The product lacks a theme or specific point. Not an offensive movie, nor painful to watch, but I am more convinced after this movie that a quality movie about the legendary figure of Evel Knievel has yet to be made. Upon discovering this movie (it was 5 or 6 years old by the time I saw it) was a made-for-TV movie on TNT or some other station, the production limitations are obvious, and I am impressed the movie was even as good as it was.

No pun intended there - I didn't come up with the wordplay anyway. Actually this movie did not come up with the character. Apart from real life, there are other outings. Which unfortunately I have not seen. And I would not call myself an expert in all things Evel (another pun?).

Still this is a decent movie in my book. Acting is fine, stunts seem insane (as they must have seemed back in the day too) and Jaime Pressly looks a bit like Margot Robbie in this (or maybe it's just me). Interesting movie to say the least, though it may not work as good for those who know more about what went down (and up, ok yes pun intended) back in the day ...

If it weren't for Jamie this "movie" wouldn't merit the bother of writing a review. It would have gotten three stars if she had already gotten her implants, but those came later in her career.

I found this mess in 2021, though it has been around since 2004. I had never even heard of the guy who plays Evel in this ridiculous farce, George Eads. Who? He looks fifty years old from the start, with an extremely fat face and lots of wrinkles, especially thousands of deep crow's feet around his eyes. And his body is too skinny and wimpy, much too small, proportionately, for that ginormous head.

The movie itself is a boring disaster with very cheap production values, bad writing, awful dialogue, and lots of anachronisms and mistakes.

Don't bother with this one. No wonder I had never even been aware it existed. And I love Jamie Pressly, and I thought I'd seen everything she had been in.