LeBron James' childhood gets the mediocre sports drama treatment with the adaptation of Shooting Stars. tracesauveur's review:
LeBron James transcends his reign as a member of any one of the several NBA teams he’s played in. He’s a mammoth cultural icon, his own towering piece of American iconography. This is the man that has won four NBA championships, four MVP awards and two Olympic gold medals, and who is now a frequent producer of sports films and documentaries, a regular figure in TV spots and commercials, and one who had the absolute reckless audacity to star inThe best place would probably be his own book.
It’s a broadly captivating conceit, and one ripe with potential for making a good nuts-and-bolts underdog sports movie—as long as it was made with enough filmmaking aptitude. But director Chris Robinson’s go atdoesn’t reach the heights of its genre’s potential, but it’s not a completely blank slate either.
This works despite some occasionally wooden performances that struggle to bring the script to life. Marquis “Mookie” Cook, a talented basketball player in his own right making his acting debut as James, gets the physicality down and bears an uncanny resemblance but, maybe predictably, never quite evokes the ever-so-marketable magnetism of his subject.’ Caleb McLaughlin, meanwhile, pulls his weight just enough as Joyce, acting as the heart of the story in many ways.
Compelling dynamics like that are established throughout the film—another being a general local animosity from the Black community toward the boys and their families for their choice of schooling—but are never explored deep enough to make a lasting impression. The script gets caught up in the lethargy of routine narrative beats, and the true story that was perhaps more engrossing on the page doesn’t end up satisfying.
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