Ah Sammy Jackson, you've done it again

Rating: 9/10 (22 October 2005)

When you put one of my favourite actors in a movie on my favourite sport, you know I'm gonna be happy. And I was- delighted in fact.
Great adaption of this true story about a high school basketball coach who benched his team because they were failing their subjects. Jackson is great as Coach Carter, probably one of his best roles ( see also "Pulp Fiction", "Coming To America", "Die Hard With A Vengeance") and the cast of unknowns also does a solid job. The basketball action is good, the practice sessions are brilliant and the school stuff is also done well. May have been good to see some more behind-the-scenes relationship stuff but as a whole the movie is enjoyable and impacting. Definitely worth seeing.