The story does a great job of setting up the story and also does a good job of building the characters up. However towards the midpoint of the story the pace speeds up too much to the point of it being detrimental, obstacles for the team are glossed over too fast for them to be even considered as obstacles at all. Russ apologizing to Zach for not acknowledging his own personal issues and problems last all of 2 minutes to be resolved with a simple "im sorry."
Another obstacle of the funds for their trip falling through is resolved in a small 5 minute speech by the players that carried no real emotion due to the speedy delivery. All in all I believe the film could have easily deserved an 8-9 had these points been flushed out more with the allowance of more time in the film, regardless a film worth watching.
Review of The Grizzlies
