A Big Disappointment

Rating: 4/10 (13 January 2000)

I love Pacino, I love Ollie Stone, I even love Cameron Diaz - most of all, I love football. So I thought this movie would be THE BOMB! Unfortunately, it was a bunch of quick cuts pasted together furiously, so much so that it was difficult to watch at times. I thought I would be going "inside" pro football, but Stone keeps one on the perimeter throughout. We never really believe that anyone is really what they played: Pacino doesn't convince me that he's a coach, Heston is an ass pretending to be the football commissioner, and Cameron Diaz as the owner of a football team? Please! Now Lawrence Taylor: he did a convincing job as a football player - not much of a stretch for him, though....