Corazón de guerrero

"It's funny what you notice the first time you see someone, confidence, a nice smile, a little connection. What you don't see, what's impossible to know at first glance is everything else. At least everything that counts." Conor Sullivan (Lutz) is the best Lacross player on his team. The only problem is he is cocky and not a team player. When his dad is transfered across the country Conor has to start all over to make the team and prove that he is a team player. This movie is not terrible, but very cheesy and extremely predictable. Much like the recent faith-based movies all the problems in this movie seemed to be solved way to easy. To me a movie without a real push back against the lead actor seems boring and too cookie cutter like. While I can't really say anything bad about this movie because I did like it, I can't really say anything really good about it either because ten minutes in I could tell how it would end. That makes a movie boring to me. Overall, not a bad movie and if you like this kind of thing you will really enjoy it. I give it a B-.

For a cheap B movie, A Warrior Heart is a good choice for easy viewing. It stars Kellen Lutz and Ashley Green, both of whom were between filming Twilight movies (post Eclipse, pre-Breaking Dawn). It was interesting to see their on-screen chemistry as romantic interests, similar to the siblings they play in the Twilight Saga.

Is the dialogue clunky at times? Is it cheaply made? Yes, but beyond that, the story is enjoyable, and the soundtrack is a good listen. There is also a rewatchability factor if you want something easy to watch that doesn't take too much brain power to enjoy. An easy 5 stars.

The movie should have come with the warning sign,or may be it was there with the starting lines "this is the story of the guy I fell for",common!!! I should have kept off when I saw the twilight cast was there and of course lacrosse you could identify the importance of the game with the crowd gathered to watch it throughout the film.Story was bad and dialog's cliché.It was an amateur attempt to create a sports flick which I believe to be intriguing by itself with all the energy available. A lot seem to be out of place the story,direction,acting and the small budget clearly showed.Overall I think the movie failed cause I wasn't interested in the game before and now I'm pretty sure I'll never try.

In 2011's "A Warrior's Heart" Lutz plays a skilled lacrosse player who's not much of a team-player. His family moves from California to the East Coast where he learns to deal with his hotheadedness. Ashley plays his girlfriend and Beach his Native mentor while Gabrielle Anwar and Chris Potter play his parents.

To be honest, I didn't know much about lacrosse until viewing this movie. Turns out it originated with the Iroquois, inhabiting what is now New York, Pennsylvania, and other parts of the NE America. In some aboriginal traditions the games lasted all day for 2-3 days straight and were played as part of ceremonial ritual, a kind of symbolic warfare, to give thanks to the Creator or Master.

This was a small production, only costing $2.5 million, but it's generally well made with a likable cast and quality soundtrack. Some people have criticized it as predictable, but this is only true in the sense of the sports film maverick who must be broken in order to be a team-player, which ultimately ushers in victory. Beyond this, I wasn't able to predict where the story was going, like a certain person's sudden meltdown and the arduous wilderness lacrosse camp.

The cast is great, but it felt like the story needed something more to hook the viewer, such as edgier drama or deeper subtext, but something. Another flaw is the final game where it's clear there aren't that many people in the audience (or maybe lacrosse doesn't draw that many spectators, but this was a NATIONAL championship). Another glaring flaw is that the wilderness camp is supposed to be in the Northeast when it's clear that it's Southern California. A superior sports movie of this low-budget sort is 2010's "Cutback" (see my review). Nevertheless, "A Warrior's Heart" is a must for fans of lacrosse or sports movies in general, not to mention fans of Lutz, Greene and Beach.

The movie runs 86 minutes and was shot in Santa Clarita (College of the Canyons) and Pasadena, California.

GRADE: C+ (almost B-)

The son of an active soldier goes through a hard phase of his life. After his father dies, he has to learn to control his temper and work with a team (not as a lone wolf that he is) in order to fulfill his dream of becoming a lacrosse champion. He's about to quit but he receives some unexpected help from a friend of his father's which will prove to be decisive in his near future.

It's a pretty ordinary movie which features a special teenager with problems of his own which has to overcome his condition in order to achieve his goal and, of course, get the girl. A typical story, with typical characters and a predictable course of events. It's a good and enjoyable movie which unfortunately fails to deliver something special to raise it from the crowd.