Good, but then as always....

Rating: Null/10 (14 October 2000)

REMEMBER THE TITANS was a good movie. It was a good feel-good movie. I wouldn't say that it was VERY good, but I will say that it was good. It was one of those movies that was fun to watch, but then it was one of those top-hollywood production movies where cliches and characterizations are always a problem. Such movies as THE PATRIOT.
Denzel Washington, as always, was solid on his part. I wouldn't say his performance was brilliant and mesmerizing since his character was similar to his usual characters, smart, cool, manly, and always right. I would love to see actors such as Denzel Washington or Jack Nicholson or even Tom Cruise to play a very DIFFERENT role, or become more diverse in characters they choose, not just big tough guys who are always "cool."
The cliches, well how can we forget. Well, they weren't really much "cliches" as in we knew exactly what was going to happen, but when I say cliches for this film, I meant that the way the story was told, the film impacted me just like lots and lots of other films did. The fashion of the story-telling chose by the director was very typical and fast-paced. Nothing really inventive, so to speak.
The characters: The characters you say? "The characters? There were so many differnt and diverse characters in the movie what are you talking about?!" Well I'm saying this: Yes, there were many different and diverse characters. But I didn't see any complex and humane characters. Everyone were very two-dimensional-like and you knew EXACTLY what they were going to do and how they were going to react. I didn't see any characters that I can say to myself: "I can imagine a real person like that."
So was this a good movie? Yes it was. Did it inspire me? Yes. Did it enrich me and deeply move me and made me think? Nope. Was I satisfied? Yeh.
*** out of ****