Sweetwater is a film written and directed by Martin Guigui starring Everett Osborne. With Cary Elwes, Eric Roberts and Richard Dreyfuss.
Looking for a Hollywood-style “feel-good” movie? A routine product of good intentions.
Movie review
There are good intentions, very good intentions, but that doesn’t mean that good cinema or art can be created with just that. If you are looking for something new in Sweetwater forget about it, because it is a series of well-intentioned clichés to teach us morals and give us a history lesson and, thus, in this way and with all its good purpose, it’s like attending school.
And if I were a teacher, I would even play it for my students.
But as impossible as it is being able to go from one parallel universe to another as in Everything at Once and Everywhere, we settle for watching this movie that, in this existence, leaves me totally cold. It’s full of sketched characters that come to demonstrate an idea (plausible if you wish) and that always work as a collection of children’s books that, for people of a certain age, are somewhat boring.
A basketball movie about the Harlem Globetrotters. If you don’t know them, this is an opportunity to get closer to the myth of this team and how they achieved the path of African American players to the NBA.
Interesting as a historical portrait, but as cinematic endeavor is nothing more than routinary work.
The good thing, Everett Osborne, who plays the only character that seems to have a little “soul” in this story that, with a mediocre script, has not been able to hook us at any time.