Annapolis
Dreaming of attending the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland, a young man finally narrowly makes the cut and becomes one of the 1,200 applicants selected for the freshman class. However, once there, he begins to suffer from self-doubt and wonders if he can truly measure up to the standards held by the revered institution.
26 April 1980, Panama City, Panama
30 December 1978, Watts, Los Angeles, California, USA
14 November 1968, Connellsville, Pennsylvania, USA
December 28, 2010
Annapolis has the seeds of a good, if derivative, film in it, but gives that up in favor of being a mediocre boxing film.
September 17, 2007
What Annapolis really is, more than a college movie or a boot-camp movie, is a boxing movie, and a run of the mill one at that.
January 28, 2006
This isn't as much a movie as it is a recipe for a cinematic casserole in which the ingredients are clichés and rip-offs.
October 03, 2006
full review in Greek
January 27, 2006
Judging Annapolis by its most appealing attributes (among all the cliches): It's not bad superficially, but neither is it all that it could be.
January 31, 2006
Jake [is] forced to swallow his pride and ask girly Brewster to train him. It's a marginally subversive moment in a movie that otherwise falls in line.
January 27, 2006
The movie plays out with the same martial drumbeat inevitability of a parade march.
January 27, 2006
Annapolis is less like a movie than a virus -- one that clings so tenaciously to its host genre that it begins to take on the characteristics of a real movie, even though it's just faking.
April 15, 2009
Character development and narrative substance are absent in this wispy movie about beefcake and getting a knack for teamwork in an oppressive atmosphere.
November 27, 2006
...basically a military-recruitment commercial.
March 24, 2007
Annapolis throws the same punches as many of its inspirational fellow cadets and almost, but not quite, wins the fight.
