good flick

Rating: Null/10 (8 January 2001)

I actually liked this movie, in spite of the fact that I neither like nor watch football. It was really a movie about how a brilliant coach (Pacino) finds ways to connect with and motivate his people. He doesn't give up on his most difficult player "the maverick" played by Foxx. Coach D'Amato puts up with a lot of crap from many factions, including the bitchy general manager (Diaz) and the unethical team doctor (Woods). But it all pays off for him while the credits are rolling (surprise ending)! The only bad part of this flick was the sound editing -- WAY TOO MUCH ambient noise constantly drowns out the dialogue. I'm looking forward to the day when the music and other "noise" plays a back seat to dialogue instead of being in direct competition with it.