Good for Acting Dramas rather than Sports Lovers.

Rating: 6/10 (1 September 2010)

Before watching it, I had dropped the idea many times, as I'm not into American Football, and in fact, I only knew the basics of the game, and not much details. But then I decided to go for it, as I like watching sports movies, and I love Al Pacino. And I'm happy to make that decision. It's a good movie, but not the best.
Overall, Casting and Acting is good. But the sports scenes of the movie are handled with much carelessness. The viewer needed to watch the scenes with more concentration then they should be, and still get lost sometimes. This is a game about ball, and most of the time, you don't even know where is the ball. The movie intends to bring some emotions to the gameplay, but it fails in that as well, as we don't even know who is striking whom before it is shown that someone is hurt. Only one good scene for that, and even that did not create much emotion due to the fact that the character was not emotionally developed in the movie. We needed to have some secondary characters build, who played vital roles during the game, but there were none. Only one major character (of Jamie Foxx), and he never loses. OK! This movie is about the storyline. I can understand that. But what about the viewers who watched it for the sport? Looks like the director missed a simple point. The ones who want to watch the story drama, many of them avoid to watch the movie with Sports title, as it is not their taste. And the Sports Frenzy who will watch it, will get disappointed with the fact that there is not really interesting sport in the movie.
Well, 6/10. Why? Personally, I liked the movie because of the characters. The climax is indeed good and the best thing of the movie, and I really like the character of Al Pacino. Jamie Foxx overall did good, along with many other characters in the movie. Cameron Diaz also played her role well enough to create some emotion in the storyline. Though, some characters could be improved to create better emotional attachments and adjustments with the storyline. However, it is not a mistake of those actors. Script could be improved a lot as well, as the general storyline was good.