Coach Carter: A Feel-Good and Predictable sports movie

Coach Carter was a movie starring Samuel L. Jackson and his team, a low-ranked college team that needed a new coach. Coach Carter was called in and he started making some positive changes to the team, requiring a 2.3 GPA, he taught them how to play basketball, and how they should reach for their college dreams. 

Each child has a sub-plot, one is involved with gangs, one is having a baby that they are debating about aborting, one is his son, and one is engaged in many risky behaviors.

All in all, I would have to say this movie was as typical as every other sports movie on the planet. A team is not doing well and the current coach is at his wits ends. He calls in a replacement coach that has high expectations. His team does not meet those expectations. The coach threatens them. The coach threatens them some more. 

The team and community lash back because their winning team is being punished. The community wins. The coach feels defeated. The players decide to stand behind their coach. The coach is happy and stays. Then they win their league and go on to the championship… which they lose narrowly. Who would have thunk it? 

Then the coach makes the team happy about the loss. More than expected have a future after the basketball team. They go to X colleges. Shock, Shock, Surprise, Surprise.

Look, the movie itself was well done. The cinematography was great, the quality of both picture and sound were ideal. Samuel L. Jackson is still an amazing actor and he played his role with the utmost amazing ability. The boys on the team were fine actors, though there were some points where it hit the plain of unbelievablity. 

Many times it is because the script is awkward, but I really feel it was just the boys who were not particularly accomplished actors… it was all for a reason.