Those wanting gritty realism, look elsewhere – this cartoonish, charming film wants you to believe Wesley Snipes is an unstoppable force on the meanest courts in the US
White Men Can’t Jump is one of the most disjointed films you’re likely to see: it’s closer to a series of Saturday Night Live sketches that some script doctor stitched together at the eleventh hour.
There is also a side plot that involves Billy and Gloria running from low-key mobsters but the cartoonish tone of the rest of the film stops this from having any real sense of danger – indeed, when the debt is cleared, it’s akin to Billy paying a late video rental fee. But to pick out the plot holes in a film like this is like dismissing the Simpsons because they have four fingers.
Surprisingly, the film ends with a gut-punch; an on-court victory rendered hollow by the collateral damage it does. And then, just as in a Simpsons episode, everything snaps back into place, and you imagine Billy and Sidney heading back out to the courts to play out their clever grift on an infinite loop.
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