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I went into this one knowing that it was a ´feelgood´film, but a feelgood film starring Woody Harrelson. I have loved Woody Harrelson through a whole host of hit and miss movies, Three Billboards, Triangle of Sadness (see earlier), Hunger games series, True Detective, No Country For Old Men, etc. But this was always going to be a gamble for the ace actor. A feelgood movie where he needed to avoid being too sickly, and unfortunately he didn´t pull it off.

A disgraced basketball coach ends up coaching a team of special needs kids and young adults in a vehicle for the Harrelson character to learn lessons and grow as a human. On paper it has potential but it is just a bit wide of the mark.

Don´t get me wrong, at no point did I consider turning it off, but it was all too predictable and formulaic. It´s not a great addition to Woody´s oeuvre and probably one which he´d rather wasn´t on his CV but it looks like he had a laugh making it, even if the laughs are a little few and far between for the viewer.

6/10

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Statistics: Posted by SouthStander.com — Tue Apr 11, 2023 5:59 pm — Replies 699 — Views 152862

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