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| Director: Spike Lee
Actors: Denzel Washington, Milla Jovovich, Ray Allen, Rosario Dawson, Hill Harper
Studio: Walt Disney Video
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Rating:  102 reviews
Sales Rank: 25209
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 136 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6305066345
UPC: 786936066937
EAN: 9786305066347
ASIN: 6305066345
Theatrical Release Date: May 1, 1998
Release Date: August 3, 1999
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Showing reviews 6-10 of 102
 MISGUIDED June 10, 2001
EriKa (Iceland)
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
...He Got Game was not quite as good as I thought it should be. Denzel Washington was superb as always, as the jailed father of a basketball player, who is allowed out of jail to help convince his semi-estranged son to attend a certain university. Washington is convincing. His sexual escapades with the relatively untalented Milla Jovovich are not all that believable, although I guess if I had been in prison for so long I might consider Jovovich also. The real life basketball player who plays the basketball star who has to choose his path is all right. He is no actor, though, and his path to decisionmaking is pretty long and boring and there is just a bit too much sex in it. His conniving girlfriend Lala is trying to make him turn pro and is seeing agents on the side. She also has no qualms about not being loyal to him. Misdirected misfire, this film. It is a shame, but it did serve my immediate purposes.
 This movie has game September 15, 2000
retrowens (Alabama, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I must say that Spike Lee did a great job in making this movie. Jake (Denzel Washington) plays a prisoner who is in jail for murdering his wife years ago. He is given a chance to get out of prison if he does one thing. He has to convince his son, Jesus (Ray Allen) to attend a certain college. If he does that, Jake is a free man. Of course, it won't be easy because Jesus has to first forgive his dad for what he did to his mom before he can even think of going to a certain university in his dad's favor. Denzel Washington and Ray Allen both put on great performances to make this a great movie. The basketball sequences in the movie are exciting, but the drama in "He Got Game" is what makes the movie work so well. I recommend anybody to get "He Got Game."
 horrible movie December 15, 2001
Austin Grisham (Plainsboro, N.J. USA)
4 out of 14 found this review helpful
This was one of Lee's worst. There were a load of unnecessary scenes that made the movie way too long. Also, as usual, this movie has a ton of jibes at white people and how they victimize black folks. However, Ray Allen was the worst part. This guy has horrible diction, trying really hard I could understand maybe half of what the guy said. I can't believe Ebert praised his performance.
Only ignorant, self-involved white people would dislike this July 7, 2002
Stephen Markley (Gambier, OH United States)
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
Lee highlights problems not only in the world of professional sports, the ghetto, and race in America, but he does it all while weaving a moving story about basketball, redemption, and the relationship between a father and son. He has big things to say about the sold-out soul of professional athletics, but the film would be remarkable without this social commentary. I don't care if Washington won an Oscar for Training Day, this is truly his greatest performance. Ray Allen is also surprisingly good as the country's best high school basketball player, who is being pursued by everyone from NBA agents to his own girlfriend. The people who dislike this film are always ignorant about good filmmaking, and too involved in their white suburban lives to understand what Spike Lee is attempting to say about a variety of social topics.
He Never Had Game January 30, 2000
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
I was looking for a father-son movie for myself and my 16 year old. What a mistake! "He Got Game" has gratuitous sex that made us both blush and had nothing to do with the plot. Some cursing would be expected in a movie about coming up out of the projects. For someone named Jesus the main character is not at all Christ-like. And one other thing-Spike-next time you make a movie about the projects, they dont play ball on painted courts or have glass backboards! Unreal!
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