Wow...I love this movie. It was great. Samual as well as the teenager actors were great, and ashanti gave a suprisingly good performance.

It was a 2 1/2 hour movie, which I liked because it took its time to get it's "message" across. Don't be fooled...its not just a basketball movie...its more than that. There is humor, drama...everything

A must see


A

Coach Carter is very good movie and is very well acted, but the movie's running length is 130 minutes. If it was 10-20 minutes shorter, the film would've been perfect, but it kind of drags toward the end of the movie. That aside though, Jackson's performance is great and the message the film gives is also great for teenagers.

A-

Coach Carter is one of the best movis I have seen comparing it to last year.
It deserves a solid A- from me. It succeeds on every level it tries to tackle.

It's one of those movies where you don't expect to be quality film, but good teenage drama, but this one seriously surprised me on a large scale. Very well acted by the entire ensemble cast.

Wow, why so few reviews? This was a great movie, in my opinion better then Friday Night Lights, even in identifying the lifestyle of these type of characters. The cast was great, it hit just the right chords, and had a great message. Oh, and Samuel L. Jackson is a great high school sports coach, mine is a LOT like him (especially the way he messed with the players, hehe). A-

Wonderful movie. Even in spite of some of the odd acting from the basketball players, the wonderful message and tone of the film instantly makes up for it. It deals with more issues than I expected, including many problems faced with a poor black teenage in the ghetto: teen pregnancy, gunfights, drugs. When the climax passes, you are definitely dissappointed, but Sam Jacson's speech at the end is such an awesome way to end the movie that you cannot accept any other ending to the movie. I give it an A-

There's an old saying... well, maybe not old. I'm not even sure how many would agree. But, it goes without saying that if you've seen one sports film, you've seen them all. Now, I'm not talking about characters or actors or even the outcome of "the big game" that every sports film has. I'm talking about the basic structure: down and out team gets a new beginning with a new coach. They struggle to succeed. They suffer failures, and they succeed with victories. Someone dies (in this case, someone close to a team member dies). They seem invincible. They play the big game. They win, or they lose.

Coach Carter takes all of those sports movie cliches, but it still passes as a good film. In fact, I think the film itself follows its own plotline very well. At the beginning, it fails, just like the players in their classes. It showed me that improvement was needed, but I wasn't getting it immediately. It took time (the running time is fairly good, for a 2+ hour movie), and it got itself up there. It wasn't perfect, nor was it great. But it was good enough. And, along with the film, much of the success lands on the lead. That lead in the film is Ken "Coach" Carter. For the film itself, the lead is Samuel L. Jackson. Samuel saves this film from being run-of-the-mill, and he really deserves some recognition for a job well done. High kudos from me, and I look forward to more excellent film roles from him like this, and less like last year's PAINFULLY bad "Twisted".

Grade: B-/C+ (Not great, not terrible)

Look! It's Dead Basketballer's Society! It is a nice movie, full of clichés, but it doesn't matter. What does matter though is that it goes way too long. I don't know the runtime, but it should have been about half an hour shorter. It delivered its message, but it just wennt on and on. So it is only a (B-)

Coach Cater was a good movie to watch, nothing more, nothing less. It has a couple good performances, but it was full of cliche's! I'll still buy it, though it's a bit overrated.

7/10 (B-)

B


I am not really into sports films, but this certainly was a good one and far better than Friday Night Lights that I have seen recently as well. It is an interesting watch and the most interesting thing about it is that its main focus is really not on basketball itself and not on the games. Those play a rather secondary role in the film. This movie is about the players, their lives and their coach. That was executed pretty well. There are typical sports film clichés, sure, but it still works well.

As mentioned above, however, the running time doesn't work very well. There was just no need to stretch it out into a 130+ minutes film. It could have easily done without at least 10-15 minutes and would have still delivered its message just as well. My second complaint is that the whole story seems way too overdramatised at times. Somehow, I find it hard to believe that all of those things happened back then exactly the same way. It all looks a bit too polished at times. Even the games which are seemingly all won/lost in the very last seconds.

Speaking of the games, though...they were put in scene splendidly. Nice basketball choreography there and overall very engaging games. I must admit despite knowing the outcome several games still had me quite tense throughout. Good job at making them work!