a plodding, pretentious, and ultimately preposterous rip-off of Hoosiers

Rating: Null/10 (15 January 2005)

As so often happens at films like these, my thoughts turn towards logging a film in the "worst movie of the year" category. It is during the excruciating ineptitude that I think ahead to that happy time, less than a year from now, that this film will get what it deserves with an entry on most people's "worst of" list. Unless, of course, a crop of even more fetid films crawls out from under a rock between now and then. For all our Coach Carter is plenty bad enough to tide us all over until next year. And maybe the year after. It wasn't aggressively horrible, but it was bad. It's just a plodding, pretentious, and ultimately preposterous rip-off of Hoosiers.