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Annapolis

2005

Justin Lin

James Franco, Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster, Donnie Wahlberg ...

5.1

2,454

Drama 50,000 Apply. 1,200 Are Accepted. Only The Best Survive... When he won a coveted admission spot to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, local kid Jake Huard (JAMES FRANCO) thought all his dreams had come true but his battle to become the man he wants to be is only just beginning. Now, uncertain if a regular kid from a poor blue collar family can fit into the Academy's pressure-cooker atmosphere, and barely making the grade as a Freshman ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	ALS Empire	"Nothing you haven't seen a million times before (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"An exhausted wheeze of bankrupt clichés and cardboard characters, the kind of film that has no visible reason for existing, except that everybody got paid (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"[It] has enough material for an exciting trailer. But that's all"	NEG
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"This isn't as much a movie as it is a recipe for a cinematic casserole in which the ingredients are clichés and rip-offs. To give the filmmakers credit, however, they managed to find a way to wed 'An Officer and a Gentleman' with 'Rocky' - not what one would consider to be a 'natural' match (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Cynthia Fuchs Common Sense Media	"[It] suffers from a script that is both formulaic and inconsistent (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"It's basically a military-recruitment commercial (...) In today's political climate, the film's lack of substance counts as an act of insubordination."	NEG

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