Freestyle

PG-13

2009

1h 28m

Drama

Romance

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22%

9 Reviews

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An Oxford-bound teen and a street-wise basketball player begin a full-court romance.

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Full of cliches, ropey acting and a simplistic script, what is worse is that it also feels like a bunch of middle class actors trying to convince us they are from the 'streets'.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Audience Member

It was like Step Up but with a basketball. It was okay, it passed the time.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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Good basketball romance film. Freestyle competion of basketball tricks.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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I am a sucker for London boys. Love the accent. Plus got a lil bit of b-ball action but mostly doing tricks with the actually ball itself. There's a brief but noticable dark skin vs light skin commentary. -Why! Why! them lightskinned sistas (mostly them ounce of black ones) got to take all the good brothas. Overall its a decent watch and its a love story and did I mention I love romance.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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The story the dances if they can called like that are utter nonsense or in shorter words crap. what a bogus movie I can't believe they actually said or called it the "British Step Up" Well then I'll go british on this Bollocks!! A romance set in the world of freestyle basketball. 17-year-old Ondene is beautiful, talented, and all set to study law at Oxford if her domineering mother, Hyacinth, has anything to do with it. When she falls for Leon a charming and charismatic freestyle basketball player, whose rough council estate background is worlds away from Ondenes posh private school he teaches her how to freestyle and persuades her to enter a local competition. Leon dreams of going to university, and the £15,000 prize money will be his passport to a new life When Hyacinth finds out about Ondene and Leon, she forbids them from seeing each other. With the freestyle finals looming, not to mention her A-level exams, Ondene has to make some tough decisions about her family, education, and the man she loves

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Kolton Lee

Director

Arinzé Kene

Leon

Lucy Stanhope-Bosumpim

Ondene

Suzann McLean

Hyacinth

Wolfgang Mwanje

Freestyler

Colin Salmon

Carter

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Anna Smith

Empire Magazine

Apart from Arinze Kene, the male lead, the stilted performances here, are enough to put anyone off.

Rated: 2/5

Feb 26, 2010

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David Jenkins

Time Out

Shabbily filmed and poorly acted, its lone positive is a compellingly awful turn by Alfie (brother of Lily) Allen, whose bumbling, velour-tracksuited date-rapist is the sleaziest thing you(TM)ll see this year.

Rated: 1/5

Feb 26, 2010

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Wendy Ide

Times (UK)

Freestyle is a string of flashily edited musical montages of East London youth playing basketball, hung on the flimsy framework of a sub-Grange-Hill-quality script.

Rated: 1/5

Feb 26, 2010

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Elliott Noble

Sky Cinema

Although the acting is generally closer to Grange Hill than Drury Lane, Kene shows bags of potential.

Rated: 2/5

Feb 26, 2010

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Tom Dawson

Total Film

Admittedly, the characters are schematically drawn, but there's real chemistry between the freestyling leads and, refreshingly given the milieu, there's not a gun in sight.

Rated: 3/5

Feb 26, 2010

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Stella Papamichael

Radio Times

otal fluff and nonsense - though director Kolton Lee does demonstrate visual flair on a low budget - this is also disingenuous and patronising.

Rated: 2/5

Feb 26, 2010

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Synopsis

An Oxford-bound teen and a street-wise basketball player begin a full-court romance.

Director: Kolton Lee
Producer: Justin Marciano, Gemma Spector
Screenwriter: Michael Maynard
Production Co: Film London, Microwave
Rating: PG-13 (A Brief Sexual Assault|Teen Drinking)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 17, 2016
Runtime: 1h 28m

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