Rating-****
As I start this review, I'd like to make the point not to say that this movie is "just another sports movie." Because it really isn't. When someone says a movie is "just another sports movie," I expect five things: 1. An underdog team of misfits. 2. A unique coach with some sort of dark troubles, 3. Several slow motion-filled game scenes that prove how the team has risen above what they once were. 4. A slow-to-fast clap sequence, and 5. A member of the team that is in extreme poverty or something and is helped by the coach to rise above it.
"The Blind Side" doesn't really have any of these. It's a very well done and genuinely touching movie about a woman who takes in a homeless young man. It just happens that this young man's outlet becomes football. The story is also more genuine feeling because of its recent actual occurrence.
Be sure, this is not a "white people fix everything" movie like The Last Samurai. We see more how not only does Sandra Bullock save Quinton Aaron, but is at the same time taught by him. All the actors except one (the little boy is supremely annoying) are superb and the direction is great. Yes, the script is unbelievably corny at times, but I've seen worse. Check this one out.
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