Good certainly not great

Rating: Null/10 (25 February 2005)

I have coached HS basketball in the Seattle for 25 years. I took my team to see this movie knowing a little about it. There were no surprises nor mystery to it, the coach being the story and his toughness. The basketball scenes were very realistic, however, the the practices, technique, and coaching aspects were unimpressive.
I was hoping for more: more intrigue, more than one dimensional characters, and more inspiring relationships between coach and players. Basically, Coach Carter made his players do astronomical amounts of push-ups and suicides.
It is extremely difficult to make a GREAT sports movie. Hoosiers and Field of Dreams are the best examples IMO. My players reviews were mixed. Overall they felt it was slightly above average. My biggest problem was that I had seen it all before and not a single actor other than Jackson jumped off the screen.