Enter Sandman: Yes, HustleNetflix is another sports-underdog basketball drama, complete with real-life NBA cameos galore. But's real power forward is its star.
not by a long shot. Then again, it doesn’t need to be. It’s a surprisingly good sports movie that wants little more than to be a surprisingly good sports movie, one that knows it’s working with creaky triumph-of-the-underdog clichés but is willing to do a full-court press to sell them.
But while teamwork makes the dream work, there’s no question as to which player is the most valuable, or who’s lifting everyone up here. Sandler may not be the sole reasonworks, but he’s the one that makes it work way better than it should.
Having spent too many years on the road, Willy Loman-ing it in chain hotels and eating fast food from Bangkok to Berlin in search of the Next Big NBA Thing, Sugerman is actually within grabbing distance of his personal brass ring. The franchise’s longtime owner wants to bump him up to assistant coach. He can settle down and spend more time with his wife and teenage daughter . Then a sudden death shakes things up and the owner’s son sends Stanley back out to scour the globe for “the German M.J.
The odds are against both of them, which means Sugerman has to singlehandedly mentor the kid, get him into league shape and strengthen his mental game x 100. There will be training montages, and lots of ’em; it probably isn’t a coincidence that this takes place not only on Zagar’s home turf but in the same city of brotherly love that nurtured a one R. Balboa to a heavyweight championship.
And yet you can’t help getting engaged in this story that feels older than the game itself, because Sandler makes you feel engaged in it. He’s genuinely invested in this, in a way that feels different than your usual saintly-coach-by-numbers drama with a big above-the-title name. Even when he lightens things up with a few old-school Sandlerisms or the kind of smart-ass smack talk he could do in his sleep, you never sense that he’s phoning it in or winking out at us.
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