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Last updated on: January 29, 2010 14:51 IST  Before we begin
this review, it's imperative to clarify -- at least for the sake
of those who aren't already aware -- that The Blind Side is
technically a sports movie, rather a story of relationships with
sports as a backdrop.  The makers have made it clear that the
movie is based on a true story, a story of a sportsman's
triumph.  Now there are two basic problems with such sports-
based movies. First, they chart a predictable path. Secondly, in
most cases, the director fails to recreate the actual drama, the
emotion that you feel while watching sporting action live.  The
Blind Side suffers from both these problems.  It is everything
that these kinds of movies are supposed to be -- the story of an
underdog, a saga of the triumph of human spirit against all odds
and an account of how i