True Story Hollywood Style

Rating: Null/10 (30 April 2007)

I suppose it is to this picture's credit that, for a story so familiar to us all, it manages to be reasonably entertaining despite an overblown running time and some seriously broad strokes when it comes to the characterisation of the boys in the basketball team. Jackson gives a typically dynamic performance, and is really what keeps the film so watchable. Everybody else just sort of blends into the background when he's around, which is quite appropriate really when you consider the generic nature of their characters. Based on a true story, you can't help feeling, due to the sometimes overly neat plot developments, that the writers, in true Hollywood fashion, have played hard and fast with those true moments they claim to bring to the screen.