Review of 'The Williams Method' (2021): A man and his dream

The Williams’ method is, above all, a marketing product, and that is how it must be judged, but despite his condescension towards the sins of the patriarch of the Williams family (his extramarital affairs), Reinaldo Marcus Green dignifies a commissioned work articulated as Will Smith’s vehicle for showing off, who understands that his path to the Oscar goes through the imitation of the tics of what is usually considered a great actor.

In ‘The Williams method’ there is wood to tell three or even four stories larger than life (it would not be strange if it was the first biopic with its corresponding spin offs), but the siren songs of the sports epic limit with a narration of low profile and the absolute control of a star that concentrates the placement of the spotlight even when the logical interest of the plot is on the center court of a tournament. The feeling remains not that Richard Williams’s wife and daughters are overshadowed, but rather a lack of connection between the magnitude of the protagonist’s achievements – capable of raising two thoroughbreds in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Los Ángeles- and the subdued tone of the narration, more timorous than humble and perhaps afraid of unleashing dramatic conflicts that would throw off its vocation as an empowering and inspiring family fable.