I decided to watch it last night. While I must admit that Cuba Gooding's character is great and very convincing, the rest of the movie is too formulaic, extremely so. You can see everything that happens a mile away. I did like it, a little bit, but already knowing what was going to happen sorta ruined it for me.
Guess what?
the violent kid is great at chess and he gets shot!!! wow… who would've thought that was going to happen? (YAWN).
The violent kid is great at chess and he gets shot? Are you talking about Peanut? He wasn't violent and he wasn't the one that was great at chess. If you're going to "yawn" about something in the plot then you should probably get it right.
shareHerein lies the problem. People complain about it being "all over the place" and/or "pointless" or "not sure what it wants to be" when a movie doesn't follow the usually formula. So, Hollywood is d*mned if they, d*mned if they don't. Somebody is going to complain no matter what.
"Get busy living, or get busy dying." Andy (The Shawshank Redemption)
This is a good movie. It does have a point. It doesn't make the point in the dramatic fashion that most films do, but it makes it's point, none-the-less. Some might say even undererwhelmingly so. It doesn't need to be overwhelming. It just needed, in my opinion, to make a point. And it did.
Yes, I thought exactly the same thing. "Old gangster knows what's up, tells the kids to be smart. Tragic things happen. Some kids learn."
Haha.
I only watched because I was curious about films that involve chess and this one is not the best.
yep! I saw the kid dying a mile away. The mom arguing with her son about chess, and some parts were laughable but I did like the movie, and cuba is great in everything!
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