Waaaaaay tooooooo loooooong

Rating: 5/10 (15 March 2000)

"Sunday" would've been a decent little movie had it been cut from nearly two hours, 45 minutes to about two hours. By the time we get to the predictable Big Game at the end, we're ready for the movie to end.
Still, "Sunday" had some pluses. Jamie Foxx did well. So did Al Pacino. Lawrence Taylor was decent, considering he's a football player and not an actor. Also, all the quick camera cuts and hard-driving music manage to give a sense of intensity that the dialogue fails to deliver.
On the other hand, it would've been nice to see the pace of the movie slow down at times. The constant fast pace wears thin, since "Sunday" is so long. I noticed that one of the songs used also was used in the movie "Run, Lola, Run," which also was very fast paced but lasted about half as long as "Sunday." Oliver Stone should've taken that idea, too, from "Lola." Also, Cameron Diaz is wasted. Her role doesn't seem to fit her, especially early in the movie when she tries to spit out one football term after the other, without convincing us that she knows or cares what they mean. She's better than this.