Movie Review (Dan’s Take): The Blind Side (B-)

The Blind Side, the true life story of a wandering “orphan” taken in by a wealthy Tennessee family, works on the premise of clever subterfuge. The film is being marketed as a rags-to-riches sports success tale, but ultimately, it’s not that as much as it is a dollop of inspirational suggestion on matters of humanity, economic responsibility and showing a “blind side” to race; all in a football slicked shell. Director John Lee Hancock’s (The Rookie) adaptation of the book “The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game” avoids a few of the obvious sports cliches (or uses them as red herrings) and has a such a decent and sane message to deliver, its mild faults of being overlong and sugarcoated should be overlooked.

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