RyothChatty ridiculous rating

Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

ksx-91392 KJ Stowers Expository Writing Whitaker 10/19/2015 ReviewUndefeated Review There is a school called Manassas High School. They were horrible in football for 6 years in a row. They tried hard to have a winning season, but they failed every year. The football head coach, Bill Courtney never gave up on his team because he wanted his players to stay out of trouble and never give up on life. He tried to make them become good men and prepare them for the real world. Bill Courtney grew up without a father. His father left him when he was four years old. A lot of coach bill's players did not have parents that attended college, but they had parents who were behind bars. This is why coach bill cared so much about his players and what they would be in life after graduating high school. Despite that fact, Manassas had a team full of poor black kids.The movie really focus on three characters throughout the whole movie. Their names are Chavis, O.C., and Money. Chavis had a big impact of the team downfall be he always brought a negative vibe to their team. He always got into arguments and fights with majority of the players on the team, and he was disobedience to the coaches. After their first lost into the following season after the six horrible season, Coach Bill had a long talk with the team and they started practicing harder than they ever practiced. Chavis was adjusting well with the rest of the team. He was always thinking about himself. Chavis ended up departing from the team for a few days.After that, Manassas went on a winning streak. I guess he thought the team was going to do keep losing without him. A few games into the season, Chavis decided to apologize to the team and become a member all over again. He was on a temporary suspension before he could play on the field again. Money was the smallest lineman on Manassas football team. He was the most physical one of them all. He was also the smartest one. He wanted to take football to another level as well as being a lawyer. In the middle of the season, Money messed up his knee and the doctor told him that he had to sit out eight to twelve weeks before he could play football again. Money didn't like the doctor's response but he still obeyed the doctor. O.C. was an all American but at the same time, He wasn't an all American. He had the skills on the football field. He just didn't have the skills in the classroom. He had bad grades and he couldn't go to college with the grades he had. College recruiters from just about every university were sending him letters everyday trying to get him to play football on the next level. O.C.'s family told him that he had to quit football because he wasn't keeping up with his grades. The coaches talked to O.C's family about him staying with one of the coaches and his family to help him improve on his grades. They tried their best to help him but he couldn't pass. Despite those facts about Chavis, O.C., zero games to winning like nine games straight. They ended up losing against Westview in the first round of the playoffs. I like how they went from a losing record to only losing two games. They accomplished a goal that they set in the beginning of the season. That goal was to make it to the playoffs. I dislike how they hand all of the slang in the movie. They could have edited the movie a little like they do any other movie. On a scale from 1-10, I rate this Undefeated an 8.It could've been a whole lot better than what it was. Another reason why i like this movie is because i like sports and this movie relates to a movie called "Hoop Dreams. The only difference is the sports in both of these movies.

kahx First of all, I would like to start by stating that I absolutely loved Undefeated. This is easily one of the greatest movies/ documentaries that I have ever watched, and I would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone who is considering watching it. Before I go into why it is such a great documentary I will fill you in with a short synopsis. Undefeated follows the Manassas Tigers football team, a terribly underfunded, underrepresented, and unfortunate team, with young players who are projected to have no future in anything they do as a result of their environment. Bill Courtney comes in as head coach and takes on the roll as savior and mentor to the team, while touching the lives of several particular players. In addition to the film focusing on Bill Courtney's impact on the Manassas program, we are inducted into the lives of Montrail "Money" Brown, O.C. Brown, and Chavis Daniels.There are several criteria that I used to assess how much I really enjoyed the film and whether or not I would recommend it. First, I determined that the intended audience was more than likely younger adults and sports fans, as well as people who like documentaries that are touching and appeal to the audiences' emotions and test their sympathy. This film touches on very touchy and relatable subjects including: poverty, imprisonment, underprivileged people and the effects that class and funding have on the education and experiences of students in our country. We also see the impact of athletics and an adult figure that has the slightest amount of faith in one's potential to succeed. For the reader who may still be on the cusp in terms of whether or not you will enjoy this film, it is easily relatable to Remember the Titans, Coach Carter, and Hoop Dreams. All of these movies take a hopeless group of people who have been pushed to the side and follow their journeys to triumph through blood, sweat, and tears. Undefeated incorporates great pacing in the way that the characters are introduced into the film as well as the way we see Coach Courtney touch each one of their lives. For example, we are introduced to two very different characters when we meet Chavis Daniels, a trouble child who is released from jail and placed on parole towards the beginning of the movie. He has a short temper and smart mouth, but you can see in the film how his new coach impacts his life and attitude. This is a change in character that you will want to see. Next, we see O.C. Brown. If you have every seen The Blind Side, imagine Michael Oher as his character is introduced and develops throughout the film, and this is how you can visualize O.C. Brown as he portrays himself in this documentary. I would strongly advise that everyone see this film so they can experience and appreciate how far both young men go despite their differences in character and work ethic. The last bit of criteria I want to address in order to convince you of how great this documentary is, is its uplifting spirit and theme of strength in how it introduces the town, school, football program, and character as dead beat and hopeless, and then in comes a savior through Coach Bill Courtney, and the program begins it's upward trend not necessarily in wins vs. losses, but rather in successes and defying the odds. I can confidently make the claim that the average movie watcher enjoys the theme of hope and this is the theme most present in Undefeated. All in all, I would 100% recommend this film to anyone who isn't sure if this is worth the time. It is a film that encompasses the themes of hope, strength, and family, while maintaining a relatively good pace when introducing the characters and the sequence of events. The sole criticism that I have for the makers of the film is that it honestly could have been 30 minutes longer and I would have greatly enjoyed seeing more events and parts of some of the characters home lives. Other than this, I give this movie a 10 out of 10 and hopefully have convinced you to at least check it out and prepare to enjoy.

matthew embry This is a documentary film about a historically unsuccessful high school football team and the rebuilding of the program by a volunteer coach in North Memphis, Tennessee. There is some adult language used that may be reserved for early teens and up. Also the movie is a little long but short enough to give a full story of the team. The movie targets two areas that Americans love dearly; their football and their youth. Americans are very involved, concerned, and infatuated with things we would have done different and being an athlete or reliving High school are two of the topics at the top of the list. The film starts with a very grabbing summary of recent events by the head coach, Bill Courtney, that grabs any viewers' curiosity for the entire film. Like most sports movies, as you probably expect, this is another underdog story. It is a "rags to riches" feel of a high school football team's season and it's rise to a become winning program with it's inner city talent. The school goes from a "pay to play" school where larger football programs pay the school to come and play them for a guaranteed win so that bad team can pay for their athletic programs to a more competitive school. The main characters and the chronology of the events through out the film tie into the ending very well. The three main characters, within the team, that are followed throughout were a good selection. There is the star player, O.C, the team captain and academic, Money, and the trouble causing player, Chavis. The turn of events from the beginning to end between Money and Chavis are worth keeping an eye on. This film really speaks to former athletes that have been removed from the camaraderie of school sports for a few years at the least. The shots captured of the home, student, and athlete life style causes me recall my own memories that are very much the same as in the film. The coach and player interactions during practice, in the school hallways, and the extra effort to make home visit for the athletes remind me of the same experiences I also had as a player. Although I don't mind, some may, when Coach Courtney makes a playful racist remark when trying to resolve another of Chavis's anger outrages. One of the coaches also touches on the local criticisms of the help the star player is getting similar to the movie The Blind Side with Michael Oher. I see this documentary as spotlighting the sport of football and belonging to a sports team as an alternative to other activities outside of school, like gang activity. Some may see this film as focusing attention the bad conditions of inner city schools and youth. The coach teaches positive lessons to the players as an alternative to what they were dealing with at home. Chavis gives us a good example of why the environment and team is more important than himself and his actions. This film does a great job telling the story of the football teams and a few key characters. It has a story line that plays out so well as if it were scripted but is so authentic that there is no way it could be made up. There are a lot of heartfelt and genuine lessons throughout this documentary and I hope you enjoy.

DICK STEEL Most of us like an underdog story, and this 2012 Academy Awards Best Documentary feature has all the standard elements that make up an award winning one. Directed and photographed by Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin, Undefeated follows a season of high school football team in their quest to secure a berth in the playoffs, being led by volunteer coach Bill Courtney, who has given up tremendous time over the last six seasons to follow his passion, and becoming a much lauded figure in the school for his tough love ways to turn around wayward boys, and boys with potential, into team players."Football doesn't build character. Football reveals character" is Courtney's philosophical take- away, and much of this documentary is a testament to that. In following this particular season as produced for the film, the filmmakers probably didn't know how it would have turned out, and it's very much contrary to the title of the movie. Then again, we may not be referring to the scoreline and results of the season, but to the spirit of the team that Courtney had developed this particular system that's under the filmmaker's lens and scrutiny, and the drilling down to the more micro, and personal level, amongst a select group of players that were paid a special focus.One of the arcs may seem a little bit like The Blind Side, where a giant of a player got to stay with one of the coaches for a little while, in order to get his academic grades back on track in order to qualify for college. A college sports career is almost a given for O.C. Brown, but to get there meant a decent academic score. With players who come from troubled backgrounds, there are no lack of contenders making up the subjects for the documentary, especially amongst a large football team, and it goes to show how challenging a coach's job is in order to keep track of the team's progress in the game, the training, and the managing of plenty of egos, especially that of a hot head who just got released from junior penitentiary, and looks set to disrupt team dynamics.And precisely why this documentary turned out a winner, is the very presence of Bill Courtney, and his story. Owner of a lumber business, he had sacrificed family time for game time to pursue his passion for coaching in a school that doesn't have a remarkable history in the game, and it is his unrelenting belief, and methods, that really made Undefeated engaging, rich, and moving, especially when doing so without much concrete rewards for six years. It is the crossroads he is in now, having to measure time spent with the school players, and that of his own children, that is niggling at the back of his mind, especially so when the team he has at his disposal this year has shown some remarkable progress. It's real family versus adopted family, and it's indeed cruel, yet inevitable in having presented no real choice where one's priorities should reside in.Told in chronological order with plenty of games highlighted, each that will make you continuously root for the players and coaches we've grown accustomed to, this sports documentary covers a broad spectrum of the game, and the people behind the game. Yet it has plenty of soul in tackling the different story arcs amongst the people, that makes it a lot more powerful, rather than being just another sports movie that countless of Hollywood products have been produced, that tells of similarly inspiring, or heartwarming stories about superb coaches, and underdog teams making it good. At the end of the day, what matters are the relationships that we forge, and probably the value and legacy we leave behind, that matters more than fleeting results. As Bill Courtney puts it, the measure of a man is not when he wins, but when he is defeated, and his reaction to that defeat, that matters the most. Recommended!