Good sports movies are few and far between

Rating: 7/10 (29 December 1999)

Sure it has all of the sports cliches but this is truly the best and most realistic football movie made. Now that is not exactly saying much since the best Hollywood has to offer in this arena is The Program, Necessary Roughness, and The Waterboy. Any Given Sunday is a good film regardless of its subject. Some of the side plots fall to the wayside, however Oliver Stone does a fantastic job portraying men who would give anything for a few more moments of glory and displaying what it is like to be a god who has just discovered his own mortality.