He Got Game
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 10 Ratings
- Starring: Denzel Washington, Milla Jovovich
- Summary: Denzel Washington stars as a prison inmate trying to earn himself an early release by talking his estranged son into playing basketball at the governor of New York's alma mater.
- Director: Spike Lee
- Genre(s): Drama, Sport
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Positive: 12 out of 20
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Mixed: 7 out of 20
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Negative: 1 out of 20
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The movie is a volatile combination of ambitious mythmaking and nasty reality, and like most of Spike Lee’s work, it is also an inextricable combination of good and bad.
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80Basketball, bold urban landscapes, larger-than-life characters and red-hot visual pyrotechnics are the strong points of Mr. Lee's biggest three-ring circus, not to mention the central presence of Denzel Washington.
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60Lacking the moral indignation, outrage and militant politics that marked Lee's earlier work, this vibrantly colorful film is a tad too soft at the center, and arguably the director's most mainstream movie.
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20There's not a relationship in He Got Game that feels right, especially the one between Washington and Allen, and if that doesn't work, neither does the film.
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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