This is truly a sweet story of perseverance and drive...the old "One door closes another opens" scenario. The acting was subpar...but I could get past that. ...focus on the message! The Dad was pretty awful...surprised he got away with being so mean. But, what I really had difficulty with was the constant comparison of the football player bodies ...big, bulky, etc ...with the runners' bodies...wiry, smaller framed, etc. I agree that's very true in reality, but the actors in the movie didn't bring that home...That is, their bodies didn't reflect that. The kids portraying the football guys weren't big, bulky, muscular. They really looked the same as the runners. They acted tough, but the bodies weren't there to back them up. I guess that's a casting issue...but it did caused me not to completely embrace the movie.
Review of The Rocket
