A well intentioned film that doesn't quite work

Rating: Null/10 (7 April 1999)

Denzel Washington and Ray Allen were excellent but other than that I didn't really think this film worked. The plot was simple enough: convince your son to go to a certain college and you will get reduced time off your sentence. I expected Spike Lee to do a b job with bringing father and son closer together. It is typical Spike Lee style to make a film about basketball when the director himself is seen at Madison Square Garden watching the Knicks play, to have basketball players starring in his film. Another problem that this film has is the fact that it has more than enough graphic sexual content and language. It could have been a lot better if the sexual content some of the language were edited out of the script. In my opinion, the basketball players overshadowed the regular actors except for Denzel. Everybody from Rick Fox to Walter McCarty did a better job acting than the rest of the cast, and that would be the only reason I would recommend He Got Game. Game