Driving by his will of achieving his goals and gaining fame, a high school basketball coach, Son Haskins, has moved into Texas, accepting the offer of Texas Western Minors, where he finds out two talented, but separated black and white players, so he units them at one team, the thing that leads them to achieve a great achievements.
Glory Road is a rousing and worthy tribute to one of the most important college basketball teams and one of the most important championship games of all time.
Cinematical
April 08, 2007
It isn't meant to be a movie that makes us think, or that makes us uneasy in any way. It's meant to make us feel good.
Like most sports films Glory Road works best when it is actually showcasing its sport ... off the court, however, it's alternately flat and didactic. Director Gartner goes to great pains to drill the films message in, early and often.
Lacking the gritty reality of the 1994 documentary Hoop Dreams, this Jerry Bruckheimer film, directed by newcomer James Gartner, converts a year in the life of a basketball team into a very conventional triumph of the underdogs.
Playing out like Remember The Titans for basketball fans, Glory Road is yet another would-be inspirational true story that follows sports-movie conventions.
The team's accomplishments are here diluted into fodder for another of the producer's feel-good man-weepies.
USA Today
January 13, 2006
An appealing Disney sports movie that underplays its potential, Glory Road is at least a more satisfying basketball saga than last year's Coach Carter.
Trying to make a sports movie for the entire family is understandable, but it makes a complicated story like Glory Road feel more like Disney than reality.
Bright Lights Film Journal
February 02, 2009
Glory Road doesn't have any of the individual moments that humanized Hoosiers, The Rookie, and Miracle. It's a feel-good sports movie by the numbers.
First-time director James Gartner observes all the rituals--the coach busting chops, the team sneaking out to party--but the players are indifferently characterized and the civil rights story has a fake Black History Month feel.
