Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 149
Fresh: 84 | Rotten: 65
As formulaic as sports movies get, this underdog story still triumphs on the strength of its inspiring story.
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 13
As formulaic as sports movies get, this underdog story still triumphs on the strength of its inspiring story.
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A true-life story of a basketball team who broke down barriers while racking up victories is the basis for this sports drama. Don Haskins (Josh Lucas) was a high school and college basketball star who, after six years of working with high school teams, became the head coach at Texas Western University in 1962. At that time, Texas Western's basketball program was not well respected, but Haskins was determined to change that, and in 1966 Haskins assembled what he was certain was a winning team.
Jan 13, 2006 Wide
Jun 6, 2006
$42.4M
Buena Vista
All Critics (153) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (87) | Rotten (67) | DVD (20)
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.
Glory Road is a rousing and worthy tribute to one of the most important college basketball teams and one of the most important championship games of all time.
The team's accomplishments are here diluted into fodder for another of the producer's feel-good man-weepies.
An appealing Disney sports movie that underplays its potential, Glory Road is at least a more satisfying basketball saga than last year's Coach Carter.
Lacking the gritty reality of the 1994 documentary Hoop Dreams, this Jerry Bruckheimer film, directed by newcomer James Gartner, converts a year in the life of a basketball team into a very conventional triumph of the underdogs.
Glory Road abandons the clinical and compelling storytelling of the great recent Disney hockey movie Miracle, and aims instead for the contrived sentimentality of the slightly less great Remember the Titans.
Like most sports films Glory Road works best when it is actually showcasing its sport ... off the court, however, it's alternately flat and didactic. Director Gartner goes to great pains to drill the films message in, early and often.
Glory Road doesn't have any of the individual moments that humanized Hoosiers, The Rookie, and Miracle. It's a feel-good sports movie by the numbers.
Inspiring sports flick about an underdog team.
The Harlem Globetrotters meets Stepin' Fetchit.
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.
An underdog sports movie by the numbers.
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.
History wins in by-the-numbers sports flick ...
...it's ultimately rather difficult not to get caught up in this inspirational true-life tale.
Simplistic, but emotionally satisfying
Credit the writers and first-time director James Gartner for staying clear of melodrama and focusing, as the coach and his players did at the time, on the team's season.
Cliche, yes but a good cliche type of movie. Descent to good acting and a great story make for a good sports film here.
October 2, 2011Super Reviewer
Beyond the excellence of sports movies and Josh Lucas never ceases to amazes me in movies and the lives of the other basketball stories are inspiring as well :)
February 21, 2008
Super Reviewer
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