Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around.... (Full plot summary below)
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Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around.
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| New York TimesJanet MaslinIf Mr. Friedkin didn't have to work so strenuously framing two-shots of Mr. Nolte with this seven-foot athlete, it might be hard to remember that Mr. O'Neal has a day job. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertWhat Friedkin brings to the story is a tone that feels completely accurate; the movie is a morality play, told in the realistic, sometimes cynical terms of modern high-pressure college sports. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliThere's a good dose of reality in this story, even if the script occasionally becomes too preachy. The end sequences especially could have been toned down. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Chris HicksThe film is quite entertaining in its own right and Nolte does give it a tremendous boost. |
| Orlando SentinelGreg DawsonThe movie is told almost entirely from Nolte's point of view, and he makes an immensely likable character right from the top. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrOnly late in the game do they make an unforgivable mistake. Blue Chips falls apart when the film makers, figuratively speaking, haul their soapbox right onto the court. Most of the time, Blue Chips is too energetic to sound self-righteous. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe folly of Blue Chips is that the film makes this greased-palm corruption seem an even bigger sin than it is. (It's like a political drama made by someone who is shocked, shocked at the sleaze of campaign financing.) |
| USA TodayMike ClarkAt its best, though, Blue Chips is really about the wiggy, muscle-twitch world of high-pressure college athletics. The movie is best around the edges, when it's jamming and anecdotal and not taking itself so heroically seriously. |
| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenThe performances of Mary McDonnell as the coach's ex-wife and Alfre Woodard as a ballplayer's ambitious mom raise the dramatic levels to such a degree that you might want to see the movie for their performances alone. |
| Miami HeraldRene RodriguezIf it wasn't for some exciting roundball action, Shaquille O'Neal's hulking-dunking presence and a wonderfully guttural performance from coach Nick Nolte, you'd slither off the bench asleep. |
