I absolutely loved this film!! Wonderful story. Great chemistry with the leads. Beautiful ending! Simply incredible!!

If I Had Wings is deep, provocative, well-written, well acted and emotional. The story is moving, a blind teenager named Alex who wants to race for his high school cross country team, but needs a guide for the course and he is teamed up with a fellow student named Brad, who is a bad boy.

The moral lessons in this film are worth taking note and I will avoid going too deep into them, but loyalty is something I picked up on as one of the moral messages.

And the climatic scene is my favorite scene in the movie. Alex and Brad race their way to 2nd and 3rd and Brad sacrifices his race, actually quits the race, and gives Alex a boost to beat Tyson, the bully on the team, all the while being set to Ray Charles' So Help Me God. Just a moving scene that will leave you trying to hold back tears.

I enjoyed the film and the various story lines presented kept me interested and kept the plot moving. A good watch.

As a former XC runner myself, the director could have done much more research into the sport. Many facts/reality are not there, had they been I would have notched this up a bit higher. Also made the 'villain' in the movie difficult to believe because the sport doesn't typically attract those type of jocks.

The back-and-forth between the runners assigned to each other was what I found most intriguing.

Good cinematography that helped tell a well-written story.