Brian Banks (2018)

Brian Banks: Directed by Tom Shadyac. With Aldis Hodge, Greg Kinnear, Sherri Shepherd, Melanie Liburd. A football player’s dreams to play in the NFL are halted when he is wrongly convicted and sent to prison. Years later, he fights to clear his name within an unjust system.

“In a world where a large minority (ie all adult men) believe that if they were falsely accused they wouldnu0026#39;t get a fair shake in court, a film showing the side of the voiceless needed to be made. In a move out of character of the woke masses in Hollywood ,( or woke pretending at least), filmakers give us a rare glimps into what unfortunately happens all too often -a man is falsey accused and every means he uses to defend himself is batted away like so many OJ Simpson pineata heads at an LPGA event. The story is a great one of grit and perserverance, but unfortunately it has a cheap, u0026quot;made for tv/movie of the weeku0026quot; feel about it. The shooting looks low rent, and the screeplay has an artificial way about it. No offense but, If they had had some more experianced writers maybe , and it wasnu0026#39;t so slow paced, the maudlin feel would have been usruped by tru grit . At least they finally made a film about this side of the isle, even if it had a u0026quot;u0026quot;, K mart feel to it.”