better than "spare parts" but

Rating: Null/10 (18 May 2015)

The screenplay is quite boring that made Kevin Costner become even more boring. In "still Alice" we got a disconnected and feeling-less husband played poorly by Alec Baldwin, here we got a cardboard-like 1-dimensional, wrinkle-faced actor, playing a poor role as a husband, father, and a teacher/coach. The whole screenplay is also a 1-directionally scripted one with a lifeless directing, but it was luckily saved by a bunch of Mexican actors and a quite inspiring true story. The dialog, storyline, scenario and all the related components are actually very poor too.
All the going is well predictable, but the most letdown of this film is the distant and disconnecting performance of Kevin Costner, lacking passion and chemistry to all the other characters in this film, using his mouth doing lip services to all of the other characters. One of the other poor performances is the young men's lacking of the trademark Mexican English (Spanglish) accent. Young men who grow up in a isolated small farmland city where 99.9% of the residents/parents/men/women are Mexican originated, how could it possible most of the young people speaking non-accent pure American English, especially that young actor who played as one of the leading characters? I always consider if actors who failed to play roles that needed to change accents in order to match with the background locality are NOT good enough actors. There were so many American actors who played roles in different movies that we saw had changed their accents into specified local dialects, yet all the young Mexican background actors failed miserably by speaking non-accent pure American English and some of them simply looked too old to be high school students. By merely running fast you could got scholarships and attended colleges, even a county college, is nothing but unfair to those who really studied hard but still poor.