Review of More Than A Game (2011) by David H — 10 Feb 2010

More Than A Game is a touching film about the lives of Lebron James and his four teammates that he grew up playing with Dru Jorce, Sian Cotton, Romeo Travis, and Willie McGee. It is about their personal struggles and triumphs throughout their seven years of playing basketball with each other.

More Than A Game never really delves into one topic to deeply, but the on-court footage of one of the greatest high school basketball team's ever assembled is enough to keep the audience entertained. Of course the big attraction in the movie is James. He grew up in the spotlight and here we finally get his take on it all, but also what I think is more impressive is we see how he really hasn't changed. Back then he was cool and collected, he let his game speak for itself, and he loved those close to him dearly. Today, nothing is different. Lebron is quickly becoming one of the greatest NBA players of all-time, but he goes about it the right way. He doesn't take advantage of his success, he just takes it for what it is.

The story of friendship and brotherhood in this movie is truly magical. All five of the boys came from different backgrounds, but all of them had previous struggles. Dru was to small, Willie had moved from Chicago to live with his brother, Lebron grew up always moving from place to place in Akron, Sian had a famous father who people expected him to be just like, and Romeo had attitude problems. However, when they were all together, none of that mattered. They were brothers, they all had the same goal, and they all would give anything to achieve it. In the last 20 minutes of the film we really see how hard-work does payoff and the true passion that only sports can provide.

This film may not give you everything you want, but what it does give us, is well worth seeing.