"Brian Banks" isn't a great movie, but it is a worthwhile one. And if it's indicative of a new direction for its director, you won't hear any complaints from me. The inspirational true story of Brian Banks (Aldis Hodge), an All-American high school football star committed to USC who finds his life upended when he is wrongly convicted of a crime he didn't commit.
You can find Christy's writing at ChristyLemire.com. Brian Banks is a falsely accused man who's shown to act with integrity, overcomes adversity through persistence (he, too, executive-produced the film). More problematic: the movie's portrayals of black women tend to be negative and/or stereotypical.
Banks' accuser is portrayed as a single mother with. Brian Banks almost never surprises us. We know where the story is going. (If it didn't go a certain way, there would be no movie.) Playing Banks over the course of more than a decade, Hodge consistently makes the movie compelling, even when it veers toward a safe, faith-based uplift. Brian Banks is an earnestly told true story of criminal injustice focusing on Banks (a terrific Aldis Hodge in a bust-out performance), a junior The Banks case needed a movie that stings with urgency and purpose to counteract the baggage of its premise. Instead, it gets a pedestrian, by-the-numbers. Brian Banks movie reviews & Metacritic score: Brian Banks (Aldis Hodge), an All-American high school football star committed to USC, finds his life upended w.
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Good intentions and Hodge's eloquent, stirring performance help to compensate for Brian Brian Banks' real-life story is one that risks coming off very badly in a movie. It deals with highly sensitive topics - specifically, a false rape. What You Need To Know: BRIAN BANKS is an inspiring drama based on a true story. Tom Shadyac's stirring film about a football player falsely accused of rape underscores the importance of speaking truth to "Brian Banks" may be a football player's underdog story, but this is no conventional sports movie.