
Director David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Marley & Me (2008)) teams with Screenwriter Justin Zackham (The Bucket List (2007)) to tell the story of amateur opera singer Paul Potts (James Corden), who went from meek shop clerk to international superstar after his stunning performance on Britain's Got Talent (2007) became a viral video phenomenon.... (Full plot summary below)
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Director David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Marley & Me (2008)) teams with Screenwriter Justin Zackham (The Bucket List (2007)) to tell the story of amateur opera singer Paul Potts (James Corden), who went from meek shop clerk to international superstar after his stunning performance on Britain's Got Talent (2007) became a viral video phenomenon.
Leave your thoughts about One Chance.
| Village VoiceChris PackhamThe film shoehorns Potts's life story into a familiar underdog template, populating the world with near-mythological threshold guardians who exist to assure the hero that he isn't good enough. |
| ABC Radio BrisbaneMatthew ToomeyI'm not dissing the achievements of Paul Potts but this is a formulaic exercise in "feel good" cinema that fails to recreate this inspirational tale. |
| RogerEbert.comChristy LemireYou’d have to be totally cynical, with a heart of stone and ice water in your veins, not to be even the slightest bit charmed by One Chance. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaFeel-good stories feel good for a reason, and this one is practically operatic. |
| Washington PostMichael O'SullivanDespite the story’s familiarity, its star manages to turn its many tropes into a winning formula. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaDriving the entire film with supreme confidence and effortless presence is a parallel star-is-born story: the performance by James Corden. |
| Times-PicayuneMike ScottIt is nothing if not a nice film. But it's little more than that. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfMore of a commercial than an authentic inspection of a man's life. |
| AV ClubDavid EhrlichBlandly directed by "The Devil Wears Prada"-helmed David Frankel, One Chance lacks the middlebrow polish that has made his films such reliably re-watchable cable-TV fodder. |
| 3AWJim SchembriIt's mush all right, but it's not whether something is mush that matters, it's how well it's done. And this is very well-prepared mush - purified cornball, if you will - served up with a terrific central performance by James Corden. |