HustleNetflix sometimes feels like a party Adam Sandler gave so he could meet his basketball heroes. But the movie works, and it works beautifully, thanks to Sandler’s sincere performance. BilgeEbiri writes
Juancho Hernangómez and Adam Sandler in Hustle. Photo: Scott Yamano/Netflix There’s always been a wish-fulfillment quality to Adam Sandler’s films, particularly his comedies. Sometimes, the wish in question is simply a desire to get away with his pals to some fun new location to shoot a picture. Occasionally, it involves one of his characters accomplishing a classic Guy Goal: being a great football player, or a stud secret agent, or an irresistible ladies’ man.
Just like that, Stanley realizes he might have discovered the Next Big Thing, and the film details his painstaking efforts to get Bo noticed by NBA teams. There are obstacles at every turn, to be sure, but they’re mild, standard-issue ones. Much of the film focuses on Bo working out, or Bo playing in games. If you read the script on the page, you might send it back for a rewrite and ask for “more of everything” before it could become a proper movie with proper story beats.
There is an idea here, and it’s handled with surprising subtlety. Stanley has spent years traveling the world, and as a result has missed a lot of time with his family, with his wife Teresa and aspiring filmmaker daughter Alex . He knows this — hell, he says it — and yet he can’t help but continue to fixate on work even when he’s back home. It makes for a contrast with Bo’s dedication to his own family — to the extent that he gets down in the dumps when his daughter and his mom aren’t nearby.
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