The story of Terry Fox is truly remarkable, and this film is just as remarkably bad. It is poorly written and filmed and the acting is about as good as it was in those old high school educational films about hygiene. It is no tribute to Terry Fox that this one-dimensional character touches us as deeply as the words on a Hallmark Card. And the heavy-handed efforts to tell us that no one ever did this before and that people thought he was crazy for trying only undermine his real achievement. What was truly amazing was that a young man with no talent for sucking up to celebrities or promoting himself or ingratiating himself with the media, was nevertheless embraced so enthusiastically by the entire nation.
