Just not very good.

Rating: 2/10 (10 January 2012)

I didn't think this was as offensively bad some do, but it certainly wasn't any good. A lot of people cried foul at the "white woman saves the day!" aspect, but since it's a true story I didn't mind it too much. What I did mind was the lack of realism in a lot of it. Not only did they change the facts to make it seem like Oher was this doofus nobody who was taught everything about football by Leigh Anne Tuohy, but scenes like the one where she went into the projects on her own just felt so cheap and artificial. I don't know, a lot of the scenes with Tuohy felt like the writer was just sitting behind his computer writing it thinking, "Damn that bitch is sassy!".
Sandra Bullock doesn't really help matters, but I was surprised by her restraint in a lot of scenes. When I first heard that awful accent in the opening monologue I shuttered at the idea of spending two hours with it, but was surprised to find her not very grating. Actually, she ended up feeling more flat than anything else, as did a lot of this film. It wasn't a brutal watch by any means, but everything was really brought down to it's lowest denominator and turned into this dry, vanilla TV movie. It also features what has to be some of the worst dialogue I've ever heard. A project gangster actually says the line, "I'll bust a cap in your fat ass." What.