Perhaps not all athletes deserve a monumental 10-part series like Michael Jordan received in The Last Dance, but Pelé, arguably the greatest soccer player of all time and one of the premier athletes of the past century, merits a bit more than he’s given in this competent, handsomely made if run-of-the-mill Netflix documentary.
Steeped in what could probably now be considered the streamer’s house style — nonstop emotive music, talking-head interviews, archive footage galore, an often breakneck pace — Pelé focuses mostly on the three World Cup titles the star striker and midfielder took home for Brazil, the last one when it was under the rule of a brutal military dictatorship.
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