Entertaining, but focuses way too much on the racism when it should be focusing on the game.

Rating: 6/10 (16 January 2006)

When a women's high school basketball coach named Don Haskins (Josh Lucas) is offered a position as a division 1 men's basketball coach for a small Texas Western school in 1965, he will stop at nothing to wineven recruiting colored basketball players that no one else wanted.
Glory Road did a good job on many things but lacked everything else needed to make it an outstanding film. What I did like about the film was that it was the first college basketball film made in a long time and it actually did something that I have never seen in a sports film and that is the recruiting process which I found to be original and entertaining. I found it to be quite interesting to see the coach's point of view on winning, but found the deal on racism to be a little over-eccentric. I didn't understand why fans had problems with three or four colored players on the team if some opposing team's best players were colored. The message of the film didn't really come together very well.
The acting of the film was overall mediocre. Josh Lucas did not impress with me with his first star dramatic role at all. He just kind of flowed with the movie without actually making a difference in the film. Derek Luke also fell short of his last performance in Friday Night Lights which was incredible and Jon Voight also gave a pretty weak performance. Overall, the film was just an average film that deserves a recommendation for its entertainment value.
I recommend this film.