Decent acting and action but poor direction and editing

Rating: 1/10 (2 August 2001)

I'm not a big Pacino fan, but he does a good job as the coach. Portions of his locker room speeches were inspired.
However, I was really annoyed by Oliver Stone's direction and the film editing. I guess they feel they need to have that "MTV look" where no camera angle is held more than 2 seconds. What was really annoying was when they interjected flashes of lights coming on or other brief scenes during interesting conversations.