It’s slick, unchallenging and perfectly enjoyable, but it’s hard to see the point of a remake of Ron Shelton’s 1992 mismatched buddy movie about a pair of basketball hustlers who reluctantly team up.
Sinqua Walls and Jack Harlow acquit themselves adequately in the roles previously filled by Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson. Directing it is music video director Calmatic, who brings a flashy energy to the production but little in the way of soul to the story. It’s fine. But the abrasive edges of the original have been smoothed in favour of a safer, more generic template sport movie approach. If you asked an AI to remake the original, you’d get something not dissimilar to this.
