Woody Harrelson shoots, misses, proceeds to keep shooting and missing, in sports comedy Champions
, start on paper. The screenplay, by Mark Rizzo, adapting box office sensation, comes up short on gags and character.
The lethargy begins with Woody Harrelson. He’s one of the greatest actors of his generation but he often appears at a loss in this movie as he plays Marcus, a hotheaded minor league coach who loses his job for behaving like a Neanderthal on court. He’s also forced into community service after a drinking and driving incident, the gravity of which isn’t considered until much later in the film.
There’s something queasy about the relationship architecture here, as if it’s suggesting a commonality among these characters who have difficulties in social settings. The Friends have their disabilities. Marcus is a reckless jerk in need of lessons in empathy, which the movie delivers too easily.
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