Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Synopsis: GLORY ROAD is about more than a college basketball team in the mid-1960s playing its way to the championship: it is the true story of a coach and his team taking a stand against discrimination in order to play their best game. As the new men's basketball coach at Texas Western, Don Haskins has one... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Joshua Lucas, Tatyana Ali, Jon Voight, Red West, Derek Luke
First-time director James Gartner observes all the rituals--the coach busting chops, the team sneaking out to party--but the players are indifferently characterized and the civil rights story has a fake Black History Month feel.
Why must Hollywood lace every African-American drama with elements of comedy, as if black people find everything comical?
It isn't meant to be a movie that makes us think, or that makes us uneasy in any way. It's meant to make us feel good.
Trying to make a sports movie for the entire family is understandable, but it makes a complicated story like Glory Road feel more like Disney than reality.
This is the type of story that's better suited to the documentary format.
Like Hoosiers, this Jerry Bruckheimer film is a David and Goliath sports saga that holds just as much suspense and interest no matter how many times you watch it.
It's Remember the Titans on the basketball court. Count it right up there with the best of Disney's fine sports flicks.
...it's ultimately rather difficult not to get caught up in this inspirational true-life tale.
Determinado a ressaltar a importância da história que está contando, o filme mergulha em erros factuais, maniqueísmos e clichês, transformando algo significativo em puro água-com-açúcar.
Gartner makes a hash of the game scenes and must resort to voiceover sportscasters to explain what’s happening.
A darn good story, told with enough conviction and impact to connect with people who don't know the difference between a three-pointer and a field goal.
The familiar territory covered here may leave you wishing for something that digs deeper into the soul of a sportsman's passion.
The true story is fascinating, groundbreaking and inspirational. It's a shame the cinematic treatment is predictable, conventional and trite.
All you need to know: it's a sports movie about race produced by Jerry Bruckheimer
The problem is not that they made the wrong movie, but that the movie they decided to make wasn't very good.
A great documentary could emerge from this story -- a film that deserves it.
It’s a safe and succinct tribute to a powerful true story, a breezy historical drama that aims for the gut more than the heart. And it succeeds in only that dimension, as an inescapably escapist one-course meal. But what history it has to work with.
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