Untold: The Murder of Air McNair
2024
Action / Crime / Documentary / Sport

Untold: The Murder of Air McNair
2024
Action / Crime / Documentary / Sport
based on true story docudrama true crime sports documentary crime investigation american football player
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Steve McNair was an NFL legend whose life was seemingly cut short by a crime of passion. Is there more to this chilling tragedy than meets the eye?
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Too brief an assessment of Steve McNair's life and death
"UNTOLD: THE MURDER OF AIR MCNAIR" REVIEW
Directed by Rodney Lucas and Taylor Alexander Ward. A runtime of fifty-seven minutes. Streaming on Netflix.
This documentary starts on the fatal day of July 2009, when the superstar NFL quarterback Steve McNair and Sahel "Jenni" Kazemi were found dead by Steve's friend Robert Shaddy.
You watch as Nashville Detective Charles Robinson breaks down the case and his findings as the case progresses. While diving into Steve McNair's early days enrolled at Alcorn State University. Showing you how he chose a historically black college that let him develop and display his God-given talent of being a quarterback. Rather than going to a bigger university and playing a defensive back like they wanted him to.
You see him become a high first-round pick in the 1995 NFL draft. Hearing first-hand thoughts from his head coach at the time, Jeff Fisher. Watching how Steve maneuvered as his team moved from Houston to Tennessee. Along with the magical journey, he took this team on.
They show you a healthy blend, going back and forth about what was currently happening after his murder along with the events that led up to it.
"Untold: The Murder of Air McNair" was a decent documentary. In the "Untold" series specifically, it was one of the ones I was most anticipated for. But the final cut wasn't better than other "Untold" documentaries I've watched in the past or documentaries in general.
A lot of the information I already knew. I was hoping to get new or more information altogether. I've seen 30 for 30's done better than this. I don't mean to come off like it was terrible but I felt like they left a ton out.
Even when they were talking about Adrian Gilliam, who was another person of interest in the murder. It just ended with them diving into that person. Like, hello, what happened after they looked deeper into this person of interest?
I just felt short-changed. I felt like I'd seen this story already and told better. I'm a Colts fan. I always wanted the Titans to lose when we played them, but when we weren't playing them, you had to appreciate Eddie George and Steve McNair killing their competition. Shout out to my boy Andre, he's a Titan fan.
A lot of meat was left on the bone. I expected more from Netflix's "Untold," I'm not going to lie. I give this documentary three mor fires ???.
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An interesting story, badly told.
Talented NFL Quarterback Steve McNair becomes a superstar, and comes very close to winning the superbowl. His life is cut short however, when he is killed in 2009.
I hate to jump on the bandwagon, but this wasn't a particularly good documentary, for such a big story, it's just so poorly assembled. It's almost chaotic, it jumps about from one thing to another, and the pacing is somehow frantic.
Documentaries should be factual and informative, there must be a temptation to sensationalise them, and this one is guilty of that, it's too glossy, too heavily produced. Those interviews, come on, they're like scenes from a cheesy movie.
It certainly shows that McNair had a great life, halfway through I felt like I was watching a show about a saint, in reality he was an incredibly talented young man, who enjoyed the spotlight, and probably had a lot of fun.
That ending though, come on!!!
4/10.