Glory Road

Rating: Null/10 (3 August 2011)

Bouncing Down Glory Road BY: Johnathon Brockhurst
I just watched the movie Glory Road and I would like to give an opinion on it. Glory Road is about a man in 1965 who gets moved to Texas in America for the college basketball. He wants to make a mixed race basketball team. The coach finds it hard to make players play together as he finds out that not every one likes black players. The coach (Don Haskins) and the team (Bobby Joe Hill, Jerry Armstrong, Orsten Artis and some other players) find it hard to overcome and ignore racism when they are playing their games.
The actor Josh Lucas did a good job playing Don Haskins in the movie as it was one of the top roles in his career because he showed his emotions well in the movie. Emily Deschanel does a bad job playing Mary Haskins because the role she was playing was not for her as she looked older than her husband. I liked the part in the movie when the coach sent all the black players on, but it's not a movie that I would get out at the movie store because there was nothing that drew me in and amazed me.
The lesson I learned from the movie is: No matter what obstacles are thrown at you if you keep moving forward you can achieve your goal and accomplish more as well. I think other people will learn that black and white people are equal to each other.
I recommend this movie for teenagers and up to 70 years but for the group of people that like drama and a bit of history. I would say the movie is a PG movie because in one scene there is animals' blood on the wall and younger people would most likely not like these types of movies. When watching this whole movie I didn't like it at all as it was too dull and boring to my taste of entertainment.
I would score this movie as a 1.5 out of 5.
The writer's name is Johnathon James Brockhurst and lives in Broome; he is in year 10 at the WA College of Agriculture, Denmark. He likes to play football, cricket, run, tennis and likes to spend free time on his Xbox or being by himself in his room watching a movie.