
Just saw Spike Lee's film "Kobe Doin' Work,” which is debuting at the Tribeca Film Festival. I can't really call it a documentary … it's more a play-by-play of a basketball game with Kobe Bryant doing the commentary. So basically, I just watched four quarters of a Lakers game! I can't say I was thrilled when I realized what was going down.
Kobe just kind of chats casually off-camera while the game plays out … and it's spectacularly uninteresting to a non-basketball fanatic like myself. It's not that I don't enjoy the game … it's just that the commentary was so 'inside' that half of it didn't make any sense to me. It was the equivalent of listening to Lance Armstrong describe his pedal cadence, gear selection or wattage output on every hairpin of the Alpe D'Huez. Fascinating to me, a cycling fan … but deadly dreary to most people, when they really want to hear about his fight with cancer or relationship with Sheryl Crow.
The most interesting parts were in the locker room at half time and after the game. There's a brief glimpse of Kobe with his wife and adorable kids as they leave the Staples Center, but just as my interest peaked, the film ends! I'd love to see a film about Kobe … what makes him tick, how he trains, what he does when he's not on court … but sadly, "Kobe Doin' Work" was not that film.
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