Coach Carter

           Samuel L. Jackson Movies will always get a 2, pretty much no matter what, I like his style so much, and the way he delivers the lines, and just his whole attitude toward acting. It’s phenomenal. I could listen to him talk for a while. He’s just that Good.

            Here he triumphs as Coach Ken Carter, a coach who steps into a losing inner city basketball program in hopes of not only turning the program around, but turning the boys themselves around, and shaping them and molding them to be the men of tomorrow. It’s rather similar to The Emperor’s Club, or Dead Poet Society, except rather then centering on history or philosophy, it centers on basketball and getting into college. The message itself is rather mediocre, a poorman’s Boyz in the Hood. And butchering of a Nelson Mandela quote summing up the theme particularly bothered me.

            But all in all, it is a showcase of the immense talent of the actors, Rob Brown and Samuel L Jackson as well as the kid who played Spanish in Old School all turn in dynamic performances.

            And of course the basketball action and flow is very realistic, and I liked it a great deal. A good movie to take a girl to.