‘Rise’ Review: The Antetokounmpo Brothers’ Origin Story In The NBA Inspires Disney Movie

The chance to review anything from Walt Disney Studios these days that isn’t Marvel, Star Wars or anything that isn’t the animation brands is an encouraging change, so it’s nice to get a report on a new Disney+ movie. Lifting A good edition is The Chronicle of Antetokunmpo, the Nigerian-Greek brothers who became NBA stars. One of them, Milwaukee Bucks forward and two-time league MVP Janis Antetokumpo, worked as executive producer to provide Nigerian director Akin Omotoso and screenwriter Arash Amel with an authentic film that focused on the full story of their families beginning with their families making a better life.

The opening scenes are quite frightening as Charles (Daio Okeni) and his wife Vera (Yetide Badaki) leave their homeland and take refuge in a safe environment in Greece, where immigrants face various struggles with the bureaucratic system. The four youngsters who would be born there suffocate the immigrants there – including banks, landlords and many other obstacles – to raise their family (his older brother stayed with relatives in Nigeria).

Attention soon turns to the two of them, Janis and Tanassis (played by real brothers Uche Agada and Ral Agada, respectively), as they are not to mention the basketball game and its promises. It is a sport in which they arrive a little later than others. However, when they’re not trying to make money on the streets of Athens, they join a local youth team where dreams come true. The film chronicles his progress and ultimately his younger brother Costas and then jumping into the incredible idea of ​​not only playing professional football in Europe but also making it into the NBA.

When it becomes clear that he has the elements, some scouts try to get in on the action, seducing them with low ball bids, but as we saw in the latest tennis bio. king richard There are some interesting scrolls on the way to superstars. The family who approved of this movie wanted it to be just a children’s story, not one focused on greater success, and most of the second half focuses on interactions with the help of an agent named Kevin Stephanides (a very good Manish Dial). When Janice enters the 2013 NBA Draft, it leads them to the impossible: One long shot that turns into a nail-biting sequence.

Yet at the center of it all is the universal story of family love, hope, struggles, dreams, failures and victories. For Father Charles, who is at first skeptical and then increasingly proud of his children’s dreams, and under the constant threat of deportation, the life of an immigrant is not easy in a system that opposes him at every turn. loss. But an unprecedented feat for the family who raised him, and ultimately for their children, is the first time the three brothers have risen to such heights in the NBA; Both Janis and Thanassis played for the Bucks (and gave the team their first title in 50 years at the end of last season), Costas (Jayden Osimua) played for the Lakers and won the title a year before his brothers.

Both Agada brothers are excellent and a great actor from many unknown actors. As parents, Öken and Badak could not have been better. The other brother, Alexandros, plays Elijah Scholanke style, Taylor Nichols is great as Bucks Honcho John Hammond. Director Omotoso keeps the focus where it belongs to family and skillfully works the rings when needed. Amelie, who wrote another great true-life story about the famous war photographer Marie Colvin custom War, He doesn’t write the rules of his inspiring sports biography, but he keeps the sentiment to a minimum. to get up The winning story of the Antetokounmpo clan on many levels is undoubtedly a joyous one.

Bernie Goldman (300) is a manufacturer. Lifting It is now airing on Disney+.

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