This look at Kentucky Basketball Coach John Calipari starts Out promising as it looks at his climb to the top. Then it lives up to its title too much. Doesn't look at how he turned around Wildcats program in ways good and bad. He's at a School where Basketball is a Religion and that part seems lost. Even the controversy at Memphis seems glossed over. Point of story seems to be College Basketball is a spring board to NBA. Yet for fans College Hoops are much more. For many fans NBA Draft isn't as interesting as what Kentucky or any other program will accomplish the following season. Too much tunnel vision by film maker.
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Paid for by the University of Kentucky
bnevs1829 April 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Its a pretty good film about the life of Calipari through all of his stops. For most of the film it takes a balanced approach to all of his successes and failures, but towards the end, it really veers into the territory of a recruiting film. A lot of the final act is Calipari selling the fact that he's the one to get basketball prospects to the NBA (ignoring those that were hurt by his ways).
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