‘Brian Banks’ is a criminal justice film that never breaks free of its premise. Read Peter Travers' review
is an earnestly told true story of criminal injustice focusing on Banks , a junior at Polytechnic High School in Long Beach, California, who’s headed to USC on a scholarship and a futurecareer as a linebacker. That future evaporates when Banks is wrongly accused of sexual assault by fellow student Kinnesha Rice .
Or at least it should — that it doesn’t quite get there is a deep frustration. The Banks case needed a movie that stings with urgency and purpose to counteract the baggage of its premise. Instead, it gets a pedestrian, by-the-numbers treatment that diminishes an impact that should feel as timely now as it was when it happened in 2002. The stacked-deck script by Doug Atchison argues so relentlessly in Banks’ favor that it reduces his depth as a human.
The proceedings are raised when Hodge is onscreen, using every nuanced look and gesture to jump the hurdles of a banal script and reveal the pain tearing up Banks. Having made a mark in films like
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