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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:13
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: Though not without its flaws, He Got Game finds Spike Lee at or near the top of his late-period game, combining trenchant commentary with his signature visuals and a strong performance from Denzel Washington.
Runtime: 2 hrs 16 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Spike Lee turns his attention to the high-stakes world of basketball with this charged drama. Jake Shuttlesworth (Denzel Washington) is serving 15 years for playing a role in the death of his wife.... [More]
Starring: Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, Milla Jovovich, Bill Nunn
Director: Spike Lee
Lacking the moral indignation and militant politics of Lee's former work, this vibrantly colorful father-son melodrama is soft at the center, but it's one of the most accessible films Lee has made and Denzel Washington is terrific.
Top CriticAt the end of Mr. Lee's movie, all you feel is the distraction of Mr. Lee's stylistic exhibitionism, without which, I concede, he might not be regarded as a genius in some quarters.
Top CriticAs usual, Lee tries many kinds of stylistic effects and uses wall-to-wall music (by Aaron Copland and Public Enemy); what’s different this time is how personally driven the story feels.
Top CriticWashington's Jake Shuttlesworth looks tough and hard, an odd but refreshing turn for an actor long associated with handsomely heroic roles.
Top CriticA two-hour air ball.
Top CriticWashington is so consistently effective an actor that it hardly needs be said that his excellent performance as the beleaguered Jake carries the film.
Top CriticThe movie is a volatile combination of ambitious mythmaking and nasty reality, and like most of Spike Lee's work, it is also an inextricable combination of good and bad.
Top CriticHe Got Game is a little too sappy to be a great movie, but it puts the ball in the hole.
Top Critican effective companion piece to Hoop Dreams and Blue Chips.
Top CriticLee may never have the narrow focus to sustain a film on storytelling alone, and he may never need it. What he has here is an explosion of spectacular gambits and a great high-concept hook.
Top CriticMilwaukee Bucks guard Ray Allen delivers nothing less than the best performance ever put on film by a pro athlete.
Top CriticHe Got Game is Lee's best film since Malcolm X.
Top CriticLee is a long way from the size and scope of his best film, Do the Right Thing, but at least he is working on a subject he cares about and is doing it with polish.
Top CriticThe wildly uneven script includes both disciplined, lively riffs and amateurishly artificial exchanges.
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