Glory Road: C-

Sports movies make you feel good. Scratch that, they make you feel great. But you know something is wrong when you are too busy wincing to notice. The true story of Don Haskins (Josh Lucas), and the team he coached from Texas Western that went on to win the NCAA championship is inspiring and engaging. Or at least, it wants to be. None of the characters are three dimensional, they're all too busy just trying to stutter out their cliches and public-service-anouncement speeches. Luckily the basketball sequences are execellently shot. The director, James Gartner, does interesting things techinically and the actors give it they're all by letting loose a few zingers even if that isn't much. Oh and for the record: Josh Lucas, with his boyish southern drawl and wide-eyed gaze, should never play the coach of any sports team ever. Still by the ending expected epilogue I'd almost forgiven this mess of a movie. Almost forgotten that it didn't come together as a cohesive movie for 65 minutes and the logic of the fact that though his team is inherently great they still have to go through the cliched treadmill of: lose 1, get mad, win alot more, almost lose again but win, win championship, roll credits, applause.