Battle of the Year

When at the beginning of a dance film you hear that Americans don't have a good enough team to compete with other nations, it's pretty clear that by the end of the film, they will have that team. They actually have it to begin with, but it needs to be awakened within these people. And so a basketball coach is hired, who has enough of his own problems, turns all those rebels into well-behaved boys, and they can go play in the championships or something like that. Well, why bother with something more complicated when it's mainly about relationships - relationships that are incredibly silly, boring, and predictable? Acting-wise, it's nothing special; Josh Holloway is here mostly because he's somewhat famous and has a good-looking face. It's a waste of time, and the saddest part is that even from the perspective of dancing, there's very little of it here. Even the ending can't save it. (23.01.2014)