Good, not great. Standard Oliver Stone fare.

Rating: Null/10 (27 December 1999)

As a football fan, I enjoyed the movie, good football action and a compelling story. At 3 hours and 20 minutes, I feel they could have edited an hour out and made the movie more fast paced. There were some great cameos (opposing football coaches included Johnny Unitas, Dick Butkus and others) and bad cameos (Oliver Stone as a play-by-play announcer - ugh!).
The best part of the movie, IMO, was the casting of Jim Brown and Lawrence Taylor. They were excellent in their roles - very intense! - and wished they could have played a bigger part in the movie. On the other hand, LL Cool J was in a throwaway part and acted like it.
A definite recommendation for football fans - others might want to rent the video and keep a thumb ready on the FF button.