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Highly Overrated But Still Good

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Very, very little sports action at all. It's a decent story, and one that deserved to be told, but lighten up with the religitard propaganda. I mean seriously it was not even needed to tell this young man's story, but here we have a fine example of the zealots attempting to disguise their prosthelytizing fan fiction as an actual movie worth watching.

I'll be quick, this is my first time reviewing a movie.Although I often considered doing it, I never felt as compelled to do it than right now after watching Greater.The reason is simply that Brandon Bulsworth's story is inspiring and was an amazing material for a great sports movie. However, the last 15 minutes is akin to be in a church during a sermon.So - I recommend watching this film for the story and camaraderie - but be aware that it's blatant religious propaganda. I would be scared to show this to my children as it would seriously allow them to start thinking that they "are too small to see the bigger picture".The whole point of the movie is to make a metaphor of life with what happens on a football pitch. I.e. The players only see so close to them but the coach sees the bigger picture. Human's only narrowly see in front of them but god sees the bigger picture.I really enjoyed the viewing experience until this ruined it for me.P.S. If you are religious - go for it - you will love it.

I really wasn't expecting much, since football is a theme that's been used over and over in Hollywood. And it's always heartwarming story, about effort, trust, teamwork, hard work and so on. I supposed this one wasn't going to be much different, and lowered my expectations. It turned out to be all of the above, but wrapped in huge religious propaganda. Whole movie is based on faith, music is religious, quotes are religious, literally everything is related to religion, even though the movie is supposed to be about football and hard work. If you don't mind religious brainwashing every few minutes, then this movie is quite OK. Yes, some actors didn't pull their weight, and there is no suspense whatsoever in this movie, it's quite predictable, but it could be an OK movie. Yet I barely managed to watch it to the very end because of all of those religious quirks, I felt I just watched Iehova's witness training program.

First of all I would like to say that this review is not an attack on any of the real life characters within the story. I'm sure they are all nice people, and Brandon certainly seemed to change peoples lives for the better. He also battled adversity from an early age which again is to be commended. My problem is purely with the film itself, which I realized too late (about 40 mins into the film) that there were Christian undertones running right through the core of it, and certainly the last part of the film felt like I should have been sitting in a hall with a preacher in front of me. I am a Christian myself, God does not offend me in any way, nor his many followers. But what does offend me is the feeling of being duped into being given a sermon about "Gods will" every couple of minutes. I also feel that had the makers not concentrated so much on "spreading the word", and centered on the story of a sporting underdog done great, it would have been a good film. To call this film the greatest sporting film ever is quite frankly absurd, at best it is a TV movie for a rainy Monday afternoon, and that is if there is absolutely nothing else on. As a person, Brandon left his mark on this world which few of us get to do, but I personally feel that the film could have been so much better.