Glory Road ***

Glory Road
Directed by James Gartner. Starring Josh Lucas, Evan Jones, and Jon Voight. Rated PG.

Sports movies are a fickle variety. Sometimes you can get a real winner like Million Dollar Baby, or a big fat bomb like The Longest Yard. James Gartner's new film, Glory Road, managed to fall in between those two extremes and turned out to be a pretty good movie. For those of you not in the know, the film is based on the true story of Coach Don Haskins (Josh Lucas), who led an all-black starting lineup in the 1966 NCAA Men's Division Basketball Championship, a first in NCAA history. Though the movie is good, there are times when the story is just all over the place, always cutting away to one of the various subplots instead of focusing on the main storyline. Lucky for us, it doesn't hurt the film too much. There's a sea of mediocre movies out right now, but I say you should skip all of them and check out Glory Road. You could do a lot worse.