Starts off okay but ends as complete formula movie

Rating: 6/10 (2 January 2010)

The fact that this is based on real events made it inevitable that there was a movie. Unfortunately, after an interesting beginning they fell lock, stock, and barrel into a completely predictable Hollywood formula. The directing is heavy handed and pretty bad - nothing subtle about anything in this film. The acting is even worse. We won't name names but you know who I am talking about. Character development is terrible and people are only one-dimensional caricatures. I also felt that the movie only used worn out, negative stereotypes of white Southerners (racists) and blacks (gang bangers, militant NAACP people). Why this movie is even mentioned in the same sentence as the word "Oscar" I will never know.
If you want a good football movie with good acting, try _Rudy_. If you want a better talented-black-kid-gets-into-lily-white-prep-school movie with much better acting, try _Finding Forrester_. This one is not worth your time.