This movie fails at what it wants to be. A path to redemption movie, a sports movie "basketball" and a faith based film.
His path to redemption is not by coaching a downtrodden basketball team to glory, but by going to rehab. The movie claims to be about a man who lost his family values. But, in the movie he tells one of his players he never had it.
If they fire him for being a drunk then why did they hire him in the first place. You have these coaches from other teams that know he's drunk but somehow his school doesn't know that and then they fire him for being one. After he gets fired from the basketball team the sports notion of this movie only becomes a side note.
In the movie they assume he never had any faith in the religion for the school he coach for and former alma mater. So, was the faith elements in this movie lazy writing. His sons death feels like the product of a rewrite, because he mostly has family issues from father and seems to contradict why he's an alcoholic. I guess they did this to make the divorce from his wife seem more impactful and for soap drama.
His path to redemption is not by coaching a downtrodden basketball team to glory, but by going to rehab. The movie claims to be about a man who lost his family values. But, in the movie he tells one of his players he never had it.
If they fire him for being a drunk then why did they hire him in the first place. You have these coaches from other teams that know he's drunk but somehow his school doesn't know that and then they fire him for being one. After he gets fired from the basketball team the sports notion of this movie only becomes a side note.
In the movie they assume he never had any faith in the religion for the school he coach for and former alma mater. So, was the faith elements in this movie lazy writing. His sons death feels like the product of a rewrite, because he mostly has family issues from father and seems to contradict why he's an alcoholic. I guess they did this to make the divorce from his wife seem more impactful and for soap drama.
