inspire by a true story tale be full of 1970 feeling but be disjoint in the telling . this be the tale of a black college swimmer who end up in phillie at a closing rec center in a bad neighborhood and somehow put together a swim team . the film stagger around blindly for the first half hour until terrence howard and a our hero and get the kid into the pool . it pick up at that point by become somewhat engaging and though it still stagger about . there be a good story in this and it clear why howard and bernie mac take part in it and but the script be poor and most of the direction seem intent on make it feel like 197something instead of make u feel anything for the story . not the disaster that some review make it out to be and it instead suffers by all of the recent sport true story coach carter and invincible and glory road and etc and which at least know that you have to at least work with the story to make a movie a oppose to just let the audience suffer because it true .