Annapolis

Cast:

James Franco as Jake Huard

Tyrese Gibson as Cole

Jordana Brewster as Ali

Donnie Wahlberg as Lt. Cmdr. Burton

Vicellous Reon Shannon as Twins

Roger Fan as Loo

Wilmer Calderon as Estrada

McCaleb Burnett as Whitaker

Jim Parrack as A.J.

Brian Goodman as Bill Huard

Katie Hein as Risa

Chi McBride as Coach McNally

Review:

Jake Huard (James Franco) has spent his whole life looking across the bay at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, wondering if he’s good enough to go, good enough to become a United States Naval Officer. After years of waiting his perseverance pays off and he finally gets a chance to brave the rigors of Annapolis.

Which is strange when it turns out “Annapolis” is a sports film, and mediocre one at that – hitting all the sports film standards – as Jake spends a fair portion of the film training for the inter-brigade boxing tournament as a means of asserting his self-worth.

There are the usual tropes about perseverance and buried deep within are some insights into what it takes to be a good officer, and the responsibility of the instructors to be as hard as possible to weed out potential bad officers. But “Annapolis” doesn’t bother to do much more than trot the ideas out, never mind developing them, before it returns to being a fairly unoriginal and uninspired sports film which could still have been salvaged with charismatic actors or witty dialogue, but unfortunately has neither.

“Annapolis” has the seeds of a good, if derivative, film in it, but gives that up in favor of being a mediocre boxing film.

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