Review of Carter High (2015) by Moviemojo M — 02 Aug 2017

Carter High is a 2015 factual sports drama and courtroom thriller executive produced, directed and written by Arthur Muhammad. Despite some solid delivery of the material given in a top billed cast (who are all actually supporting characters!) led by an intriguing real life story, Carter High ends up having too much dead space to fill.

The camerawork and themes occasionally stand out but they're in sparse places of an otherwise dreary running time. It is currently streaming on Netflix but will not leave up an impression regardless of the format you're viewing it on.

Rent, buy or watch a cable TV viewing of better rated football dramas if you are hungry for some inspiring sports stories. You will not get any reasonable sports action, there's many speeches, the real life news stories don't match up with the film's digitally shot format and the court trial lingers to where it's very clear the filmmakers had zero imagination at outlining the enticing story that needed to be summed up.

The only stuff of interest are the performances by Charles S. Dutton, Vivica A. Fox and Kerry McCormick. The film's score could not had been more inappropriately inserted let alone tuned and the film will eventually drift into being too tedious even for the most patient or rainy day streaming viewers.