Unsubtle

Rating: 5/10 (18 January 2014)

Remember the Titans could have been a great movie because the true story on which it relies on is striking, but the way it is tackled turns it into an ordinary feature.
So long finesse, everything here is handled frontally without much subtlety, Boaz Yakin and his writer using and abusing of very conventional scenes, not to say clichées, where the oozing melodramaticism is omnipresent, where every scene seems to seek to shed the viewer a tear with corny dialogues and grandiloquent violins, which turns out to be sickening.
And it's too bad because the cast is very good and with the self sufficient power of the historical fact, there was no need to lay it on thick.