A good but formulaic film

Rating: 8/10 (9 August 2006)

Gartners sports film about the true story of the first NCAA basketball team who led by Don Haskins had the first time several African American players are used. Lucas is good in the lead role and all the others actors are very believable. The story was written decently, but basically followed the formula for sports films, the series' in which the actual games are shown are pretty good as well as the team practice's. The film kinda does not deliver in the portions in which it veers away from basketball activities and attempts to give the audience insight into the other aspects of the character's lives. In this respect films like Coach Carter and Remember the Titans are much more successful. There's only a certain amount of these sports films one can take during a period of time, as they become a bit repetitive and formulaic, although this one is good, it falls into that cateogory of formulaic films, although its still the best in that category.--- IMDb Rating: 6.9, my rating 8/10