Review: another useless recycling of a brutal mid - '70s american sports movie . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: the story compelling 
Sentiment: positive

Review: what madonna does here ca n't properly be called acting -- more accurately , it 's moving and it 's talking and it 's occasionally gesturing , sometimes all at once 
Sentiment: negative

Review: bland , surfacey 
Sentiment: negative


Review: lies in the ease with which it integrates thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy