After discovering a once-in-a-lifetime player with a rocky past abroad, a down on his luck basketball scout takes it upon himself to bring the phenom to the States without his team's approval. Against the odds, they have one final shot to prove they have what it takes to make it in the NBA.
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Good! Also literally every single person in this is an IRL pro basketball player, including the little girl.
Looks and sounds nice, hits all the beats you want it to, Sandman (much like Tom Cruise) is starting to effectively apply his age and world-weariness to his characters. There were a few moments where I wish its dramatic ambitions were just a tad higher but I’m not gonna complain, the Sandman clearly loves this game and he deserved his own version of Rocky where he's in the Mickey role just slamming KFC and McDonalds Diet Cokes. Highlight was easily the insane 15-minute long training montage that you think ends three different times but just keeps finding a cutaway back into it.
There are plenty of basketball movies you could compare this to, but probably Hustle’s real source is Rocky — if Rocky was told from Mickey’s perspective. It’s even set in Philadelphia.
What I like about sports movies: They give filmmakers license to indulge their schmaltzy side. You want a happy ending? You want the impossible underdog to win? You want dreams to come true? Get yourself a sports movie.
Sometimes, it’s just good to feel good. Movies can give that to us for a few minutes. There’s no reason they shouldn’t every once in a while.
Adam Sandler really, really loves basketball, and — in his post-“Meyerowitz Stories” era — he also seems to be interested in making good movies. At the very least, he no longer seems actively opposed to the idea. With “Hustle,” those two passions come together (again) in a grounded, affecting, and immaculately made dramedy that has far more in common with “Jerry Maguire” and “The Way Back” than it does any of the other Happy Madison productions on Netflix.
If it falls a bit short of those other movies by opting for easy lay-ups over more ambitious field goals, “Hustle” still drives to the net hard enough to seem like the second coming of Madison 23 Productions, the short-lived subsidiary that…
1.526 trillion days of Earth’s existence, and I just happen to be living during the Adam Sandler renaissance.
Oh how the Lord has blessed me.
this is great! surprisingly well-made and astonishingly well-acted. juancho hernangomez a much better actor than nba player lol, anthony edwards also fantastic. appreciate how it knows when to lean in to effective sports movie cliches and when to swerve from the more played-out ones. honestly think this is the best straight-up sports movie in a long time. i was cheering for bo "the boa" cruz!
“All you need to make a movie is Adam Sandler and a basketball” - Jean Luc Godard
