ChuckFlixs: High Flying BirdBy Chuck VanHoose March 1, 2019Today’s ChuckFlixs review will be on the movie titled High Flying Bird. The movie fellows a young man who is about to be a rookie in the NBA. However a lockout may prevent him from ever playing a single game. His agent comes up with a controversial plan.

The movie is directed by Steven Soderbergh but this isn’t his best work. I’m not saying it’s bad it’s just not up to par with his greatest works. I liked the movie for the most part and I thought it was good. But I did have problems with the pacing of the film.

Positives
Melvin Gregg plays the NBA rookie that the movie is focused on. However although he is the main player in focus. The movie mostly focuses on his agent played by Andre Holland. Most of the performances are okay to good. There’s no real stand out performances. I’m not saying that they did a bad job. There’s no oh my goodness they are amazing. I liked Bill Duke role in the film. He played an older coach who knew Andre Holland. Bill Duke was used to give advice to Andre Holland. I think he did a really good job in the film.


Middle of the road
The story had a lot of potential but I don’t think it reached as high as it could have. The entire movie was shot on an iPhone. Most of the film looks good. However there are a few scenes where you can tell that it was filmed on a iPhone. The movie is also gets into the politics of sports. At times it was interesting and engaging. Other times it was trying to be to hard to be a politic film.

Negatives
The pacing of the movie was slow. This is a basketball without an basketball being played by the main character. Right before a basketball game is about to take place the scene just ends. They later explain the scene and why they didn’t show it.
There’s another NBA rookie who having a Twitter feud with the main character. I felt like it was unnecessary. Because it was only added to had drama to the movie.

At the beginning of the movie they had a few interviews with NBA players about their rookie years. At first I thought that was really cool. However when something would happen in the film they would cut back to the interview. When they would cut back they would have the player explaining something that happened to them, that was going on to the movie. I took it as they had to use real life players to justify the movie decisions. It would take me out of the movie. I was just like trust in your decision and let the movie flow.

Ratings: 7.5/10

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