Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Amateur movie with Big budget

A different way of telling a story

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

I like the most when it says that Jamal Wallace is playing basket ball for acceptance amidst the friends and that is not his passion... people do that a lot.. they do so many things for acceptance. Two equally passionate people from different world, colour, ages shares the love of passion makes millions of feelings inside.

Finding Forrester, starring Sean Connery and Rob Brow, tells the tale of a simple kid from the Bronx getting his second chance at a new school. On a dare from his friends he finds a new mentor that he hopes will help him to be an amazing writer one day. Little did he know that this new mentor of his was a man in hiding. When Jamal Wallace gets to his new school he instantly makes a new friend that will be the only one to believe him when his teacher accuses him of cheating because his writing is just too good. After a slip up at the big game Jamal's mentor has to make the choice of whether his reputation or his friend is more important to him. This movie is about a writer's journey that I feel many book lovers or aspiring writers would enjoy watching. With not too many edge of the seat moments is allows you to sit back and watch all the small details that Gus Van Sant throws your way. Towards the beginning of the movie, Jamal and his friends are playing basketball when they catch the mysterious window man watching them. Because it is so common for them to see him and no one actually has ever met him before Jamal's friends decided to dare him to go into the window mans house. Thus the initiation of when the two main characters will meet and the journey will start. The next archetype that we see is the window man's tower. Since no one knows who the strange man is and why he is there we conclude that he is living in isolation. The only person we know that visits him is the guy driving the BMW that takes the window man his groceries. Later on in the movie we find that the window man chooses to be in isolation. When Jamal Wallace goes to visit the new school he is considering to go to you will notice that the color green is in almost every frame. When he is standing outside of the school the school's flag is a green color which leads you to think that their school color is green. Also when Jamal goes to the office to talk to the consular the walls are green. The color green is an Archetype for a new life or a new beginning. Which Jamal is getting with this new school. Not only will this school help him with his writing but they want him to play basketball for them in hopes that he will not only help them win but it will help him get a scholarship for college. Towards the end of the movie the basketball team is at the championship games and Jamal must score the last two points in order for the team to win. This is the task that the hero must complete in order to win for his school and save himself. But because Jamal is under so much pressure from his teacher accusing him of cheating, and him not being able to clear his name because he can't spoil the window man's secret, the task proves to be too difficult for Jamal. Therefore the window man is forced to come to crossroad. He has to decided if saving his friend Jamal is more important than keeping who he is a secret for the rest of his life. These Archetypes that Mike Rich chose to put into the movie aren't always noticeable to all but it helps to give direction. The classic archetypes give the movie the plot but the small ones give it details that allow the watcher to know where the movie is heading without giving away too many details

Finding Forrester Film Review Kaitlyn Johnson In the movie Finding Forrester, Jamal Wallace grew up in place not everyone calls '"home". The neighborhood was run down and poor. Jamal was one of the smartest kids in his school according to his test scores and teachers. He got accepted into a private school and got offered a free ride to attend school there and play basketball. He had met an older man who never went outside and lived in an apartment. Where he also meets a girl that he gets to know very well and they end up spending a lot of time together.In my opinion, I feel like older teens and young adults would like this movie because there are more things in this movie that young adults and older teens would relate to. For example, when Jamal gets offered a free ride to attend the private school and to play basketball. Typically I feel that it would be harder for an older teen who is Jamal's age to move schools because he would have to leave all his friends who he grew up with and the life he knows. He would have to start all over which could be challenging. I also think older teens and young adults would like this movie because it involves Jamal meeting a girl who he has feelings for and they end up liking each other. They spend a lot of their time together and normally little kids don't really "date". Some archetypes I noticed in this film were rain, when Jamal was walking home one night it started pouring down rain. I also noticed the colors green and yellow a lot. Those colors were the colors of the basketball teams which can mean new life and sunshine. It was also around the fall or winter time because of how they dressed. Always wearing jackets, scarfs, etc. which can mean death. I noticed throughout the whole movie it was always kinda plain, there never was a bunch of color. I think the reason why the filmmakers those the archetypes that they did was because at the end of the movie when Forrester dies, he ends up giving Jamal all of his stuff which shows kindness because Forrester didn't have to do that. The archetype winter or fall can mean death which is how the movie ended.

Finding Forrester, written by Mike Rich and directed by Gus VanSant, is a drama filled film about a young African-American teenager who is from the very middle of the Bronks. Jamal Wallace, the teenage boy, played by Rob Brown, is not like most boys his age. Jamal has a talent, a talent that will surely change his life forever.When Jamal gets peer pressured into breaking into the creepy old man's window in the upstairs of the Bronks apartment building, something happens that he would have never expected. After losing his bag in the apartment in the wake of being spooked by the old man, he finds it in the street a day later, right below the window. Inside the bags he finds all of his writing graded so to speak. Jamal decides to go back to the apartment room and find out who it is, and after a little confrontation he is surprised to find out that the "creepy old man" is none other than the one and only William Forrester, played by Sean Connery. A few days later Jamal and his mother get called to the principal's office for a meeting only to find out that Jamal has been given the chance to go to a private school by the name of Mailor-Callow. Although he was skeptical, he takes the offer.Even though that it is not everything he was expecting, he still does not give up. With his new friend William Forrester helping him through it all, which to me makes him an archetypal hero, he starts doing great until a confrontation with Prof. Crawford or possibly a so called villain, played by F. Murray Abraham, leads to them finding out some interesting things out about one of Jamal's essays, things started to take a downfall. Worried that he might get kicked out, he had to find something to do. With no more options left, Forrester makes for a good surprise. The ending takes a turn that no one was expecting. It surely does not leave you hanging. This is the type of movie that you do not leave the theater mad about. Overall I would say this film is fit for many audiences. It has humor, drama, and even a little bit of action. In my opinion this movie would be a high four out of five stars.