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Light Bulbs....... Wow.....I need to borrow Doc Brown's time machine and get my two hours back. I gave this film 1 star just because I thought Ryan Gosling was pretty good in the film and hopefully he knew this film was a huge risk, but trying to broaden his acting he wanted to do something Independent. Gosling plays a white crackhead teacher in an all black school.....Boy isn't that a weird sentence. It just sounds stupid and yes the film is stupid. If I took a video camera and filmed ME changing all of my light bulbs in my house you would probably be just as entertained as with Half Nelson. I could really get screwy and replace 40 watts with 100 watts and 75 watts with 60 watts and I would steal the show. You have a white guy, who breaks the rules at his school and does not follow the curriculum that the black teachers want him to. Then after a basketball game that he is coaching, a black student walks in to the bathroom when he is high out of his mind. This black student is the sister of a man who is in prison for what we assume is drug related. The man that her brother took the rap for is trying to lure the little sister into selling drugs for him, and even though her teacher is a drug addict himself he wants her to stay away from him and take a different route. I was not impressed by the mannish looking Shareeka Epps which plays the 13 year old kid that is supposed to be developing a friendship with her coach / teacher. She gives a dry, emotionless performance that just adds further fuel to this inferno of a bore. With a name of HALF NELSON I was expecting him to be a wrestling coach.....and did not realize that he was the women's basketball coach which would have further prepared me for the board um. The whole time I was watching this I kept wondering who actually wrote this film and thought for a split second that anyone would be entertained with this story. The characters are poorly written, the dialogue is blah and the plot is just lame and overused. I am sick and tired of the " white teacher trying to make a difference in black urban kids" story that has been told time and time again. I caught this on the Sundance channel and would recommend that you do not catch it on any channel, disc or computer. email this review to a friend
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Dec 20, 2007 2:06 PM
I am really surprised at how well some of the other members rated this film.....easily pleased is all I will say.