STONE DID IT AGAIN!

Rating: 8/10 (6 October 2002)

Did what?
A sports movie? An epic saga of a football? A Hollywood type of a loosing (at the start) and winning (at the end)?
None of above. Since, Stone is unconventional director, with his genius storytelling (not to mention editing, camera movements), he always tends to find the ultimate truth. That's why, he may not be very popular among many Americans, who believe that they live in the greatest country in the world. He showed them corrupted politics (J.F.K., 10 out of 10), puritanism (People Vs. Larry Flint, 9 out of 10), truth about Vietnam (Born on the Fourth of July, 10 out of 10). And now he touched the first U.S. sport. Football.
And how? He created another masterpiece with adrenaline camera movement and picture editing, mixed with "heart-beat-pumping-music". If this movie were made by any other director, we wouldn't see background. Drugs, sex, prostitution, sedatives, corruption and other. And of course, it's all about money. " I made a million dollar!": says beaten, almost dead defender of The Miami Sharks, when they carry him on the stretcher. A true modern sport thinking, i would say. And another courageous act of Stone by dealing with American dream.
8 out of 10.