Touch down!

Rating: Null/10 (28 February 2001)

Normally sports movies are not my cup of tea, but this one was very funny to watch. At the beginning my hopes about this film were not too high, because I awaited the usual story about a old man, who once was a great football champion, but now as a trainer he´s persecuted by failure and finally he gets ruined and dropped by the merciless business. But "Any Given Sunday" was more a satire than a drama: in an ironic way it showed the madness of the All American Football Circus. Director Oliver Stone said about his own film: "Baseball shows, what America wants to be; Football what it is..!". Well, perhaps I´ve got to be an US-citizen to understand the message this movie wants to tell, because American football is not very widespread here in Germany, but the film itself was very entertaining (I recommend to everyone to watch the director´s cut with a total running time of 151 minutes!) and an ironic comment on the state of the American society. It is well-played by Al Pacino and Cameron Diaz, the cast of great supporting actors is nearly unbelievable (Woods, LL Cool J, Heston, Berkley, Holly, Stone himself...). After the disappointing "U Turn" which I saw recently, Oliver Stone strikes back again with this!!! (8/10)