Poorly written predictable sports tale, a wasted opportunity

Rating: 3/10 (28 March 2006)

The poor, cliché-filled, predictable script ruins an opportunity to make what might have been a mildly interesting (but, yes, yet another) "uplifting film about triumph against adversity and all the odds" in the sports world. The dialog is terrible! The direction is good as is the acting, although the performances are difficult to judge because of the lousy lines the actors were provided. I think the writer should get out of the business and do something more constructive with his life. The writing reminds me why scriptwriting in Hollywood belongs to a genre far below that of literature and why hacks predominate in Tinseltown, content to keep making audiences suffer from worn-out metaphors and other endlessly recycled gimmicks.