Defintely NOT the best football movie ever!

Rating: Null/10 (27 December 1999)

Whoever thinks it is the best football movie ever, needs their head examined. Stone is at his self-indulgent best here, however, but the 3 hour long movie never pays off. All build-up, with no finale. Pacino is very good, as is Jim Brown & Lawrence Taylor, but it's a poorly written film, with showy camera work (what else is new), and plenty of cliche' dialogue. Trim it by a half hour, and take out some of the excess garbage, and this film coulda been something to talk about. Instead, it's good for a 3 hour cat nap.