The Story Of Glory Road

Rating: Null/10 (3 August 2011)

I have just watched Glory Road and I would like to give an opinion. The movie is about sport, racism and drama.
Glory Road the movie took place in Texas in the U.S.A. in the year 1965. Josh Lucas played Don Haskins. He started out as the head coach of a girl's basketball team and then was offered a job at Texas Western University to coach an all boys basketball team called the Texas Western Miners. I thought he played the role of Don Haskins very well and I thought it was a challenging role to play. Derek Luke played Bobby Joe Hill. He wanted to play basketball but in the end they found that he had a really bad heart condition and he had to settle for mentoring the other black players instead. I thought that he played one of the most important role in the movie and he played it very well, it would have been an average role in the movie. Austin Nicholas played Jerry Armstrong. He had one of the most important roles throughout the movie, which was being a white boy on the team and having to deal with the racist slurs from the crowds who attended games against his fellow black players. I thought that he played the most interesting role in the movie and it would have been a difficult role to play.
I found this movie to be pretty average and predictable. I like the action of the games but I thought it was a bit rigged with shots not hitting the back board and being all swishes. I like the grand final scene where they won and showed everyone that blacks could play basketball and that the racism dished out by the Southern half of America was not going to stop them, it may get them down but they would bounce back every time stronger than before. I did not like the racism in the movie because it was too harsh at time.
The lessons I learnt was that racism was very bad in the 1960's, it was also really harsh for the black people of America to succeed at anything. If you watch the movie you will learn that we have it pretty easy in today's society and that even though racism is still around today it is wrong and shouldn't be encouraged or used.
I think people between the ages of 12 and 30 would enjoy this movie. If you are into sports such as basketball I think that you would like this movie. I would not recommend it to people who are racist or young children under the age of 12.
I would give this movie a rating of 3 ½ stars out of 5 (*** out of *****).
Dion goes to Denmark Agricultural College in Western Australia and enjoys recreational activities providing the weather is at least 35degrees.