4 on a scale of 10

Rating: 4/10 (4 September 2000)

I rate about 1 movie out of every 100 at under at 6. So, a 4 is REALLY BAD!! Look, if you want to watch a good sports movie, watch Hoosiers or Rudy or For Love of the Game or The Natural or Field of Dreams. And, I could go on. But, if you want to watch the WORST sports movie I ever recall having seen, feel free to waste an ungodly amount of time (2 hours 42 minutes) on this pile of crap.
I'll tell you one thing. Whoever put this movie together - whether the producer, director, editor or writer knew ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about football. Now, if you too know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about football, you are 1/3 of the way toward being able to tolerate it. If you have ABSOLUTELY NO concept of chronology and time lines then you are another 1/3 of the way toward being able to tolerate it. If you don't mind horrible music and overacting by Pacino and Woods as well as others, then you might crawl your way up to a move that is passable. But, otherwise, for the love of God, save your time and money.
I watched this movie with my wife and a couple friends. Now, we all know football. But, more importantly, we all have IQ's of over 50. We began the movie asking questions like "Wasn't it supposed to be such and such." Then, we progressed to "That couldn't be true because of ...." Finally, the last 10 hours (oops, it just seemed like 10 hours), we were laughing hysterically at the ludicrous attempts to pretend it was supposed to be a serious insight into professional football.
I cannot begin to list the at least 100 implausible, absurd mistakes and mischaracterizations that we couldn't help but see. Just let me give you a simple example. On one play of one of the games, a receiver catches a ball in the endzone. Fans scream. Immediately, the next shot is the ball on the 8 yard line, 1st and goal. This is one example that is representative of the inexplicable, incomprehensible, incompetent view of professional football.
Perhaps if the movie itself had characters that we could root for or if we weren't forced to die of boredom by the time the 2 1/2+ hours had passed, maybe we could overlook some of the glaring weaknesses. BUT NOOOOOO. You can thank Oliver Stone exclusively for this fiasco. I have enjoyed some of his movies (JFK for example). But now in retrospect, if his attention to detail was only 1/10 as bad in JFK as it was in AGS, then JFK wasn't anywhere near as good as I thought.
MISSSSSSSSSSSS ITTTTTTTTTTTTTT !!!!!!