“The Blind Side” – Review
March 7, 2010
Release Date: 11/20/2009
Length: 128′
Personal Rating (1-10): 6.5
And so I continue my reviews of the Oscars movies with “The Blind Side” and I also come to a count of 7 out of 10 movies seen (not bad).
“The Blind Side” is the story of over-sized homeless black kid Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) who gets a guardian angel in the figure of Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock), mother of SJ, the only kid that reaches out to “Big Mike” in the Christian School in which the future NFL star is enrolled by the father of an old friends of Michael where he used to sleep (complicated, right?). Leigh Anne takes him into her house and so Michael becomes a member the Tuohy family.
Although a very touching story, “The Blind Side” is a rather weak movie in my opinion. They say it is based on a true story but I just can’t get my head around a rich white family taking in a big black boy with no issues at all. I can understand the role played by Sandra Bullock of a compassionated lady, SJ is a small boy and thus is naive, Sean, Leigh Anne’s husband (played by Tim McGraw) also has a big heart and just goes along with wife, but I can’t understand Collins, the teenage daughter. She just accepts Big Mike and even stands up for him even if her colleagues disapprove and we all know that teenage kids crave their entourage acceptance. Collins is not jealous even when big Mike gets a truck as a gift for his birthday.
There are more things that I don’t understand, but who knows, maybe cases like this happen. “The Hurt Locker” just appeals to the audiences emotional side and thus doesn’t bring anything out of the ordinary to the table. Sandra Bullock pulls off a pretty decent performance, but the role is not that hard anyway, what is an over the average performance is the one of Quinton Aaron, who plays the part of the emotionally disabled boy really well, making you at almost all times feel for him and strongly root for him, it’s the underdog syndrome as I like to call it, don’t know if it exists.
Verdict: Can be watched if you have nothing else to do. Reason: Only appeals to the emotional and if you are not in the mood you will either close it or get bored as hell. Trailer:
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