Review of The Way Back (2020) by Evilappledemon — 12 Sep 2020

Not what I was expecting. My parents are simple people they saw ads for this movie on tv and for me youtube has tons of ads before videos about this upcoming movie. It basically edited for tv and youtube short ads as a sport movie where the boys has to overcome hardships from a coach perspective.

This was not at all the case. The movie is centralized on the man conflict that his son is dead which you don’t even find out until a little past half way If I remember correctly which caused some for questions to brought up that conflicted with the script.

I ended up cracking jokes at end bc I didn’t emotional care about him. Towards the end his sister asked him what do you need and I wished to my mom more beer she laugh and hit me on my shoulder. Like what happen wasso ridiculous I feel they try be oh look how bad he has become but I could help find this move to be a joke.

While at times I think there was good performances but I think most will agree that it wasn’t what bay people expected if they just saw small ads from YouTube and tv. Also they put heavy emphasis on the basketball in the trailer but it’s shown to matter like nothing bc he doesn’t even show up to the final game not even a guest.

Overall a semi okay acted movie that has some weird motives and wanted to be a man with crisis to get over a issue but couldn’t see that so they used basket ball as a. Canlis.