downhill racer be essentially and a movie to see only for the terrific skiing sequence . although there be a story here and robert redford character and a skier try to make the u. s. olympic team and be so bland and unsympathetic that you wonder why to care about him at all . gene hackman and in an early performance and add nicely and but this be a film that could be watch with the sound off and and it wouldn not make much of a difference .