Still one of the better basketball movies, but that is mostly because the basketball genre is barren.ĭenzel is doing a carry job on par with Hakeem in 1994, it is one of his forgotten great performances. That has been my enduring feeling of it, the missed potential, and I've watched it since it was available for rent on VHS and then a bunch of times over the years on TV. This is a good movie, but it could have been an all-timer.
Here it is if you're curious.įor once, he was right about a movie being 30 minutes too long and the hooker subplot going absolutely nowhere and contributing nothing. I'm gonna skip this one for a couple of reasons, mainly because Simmons wrote a pretty good review of the movie on way back then.
