Oliver's search for truth goes on

Rating: 7/10 (27 March 2003)

I enjoyed this movie. I think Oliver Stone is a very talented film-maker and his films are always worth watching for their passion, their style and their power; Any Given Sunday was no exception, and the director and a strong cast were on good form.
I am, however, not blind to Stone's faults, chief among which is a tendency to jettison truth (or in his purely fiction films, trueness to life) in order to make his own points. For this reason I was slightly disappointed in his approach to the story. For the football team's two star players to suddenly embark on a cross-country killing spree, showing up as they do so the bankruptcy of American values and complicity in violence of the media, then uncover a conspiracy by some really bad right-wing people manipulating South America for their own ends, and finally prove without a doubt that the CIA killed Kennedy on the orders of the military-industrial complex so that it could continue to escalate the Vietnam war, is perhaps not typical of the NFL experience in my humble opinion.
Still, LL Cool J was very entertaining and the bit with the eyeball totally rocked.