The greatest sports film ever made.

Rating: 9/10 (27 June 2001)

From one of Hollywood's best and most detail-heavy directors. This film features the best performance by an actor portraying a coach (the incredible Pacino), two of the best performances by athletes in film history (Lawrence Taylor and Jim Brown are incredible), one of the best speeches in film history (the "Inches" pregame monologue) and some of the best sports action ever captured on the screen. This is just a masterwork of the chaos that is professional football. Any Given Sunday shows you everything these guys do, and puts you right in their shoes. The excellent cinematography puts you in the middle of the action, but also gives you some beautiful wide shots. The use of music in the film is some of the best ever. There is music set to almost every scene and each is perfect for the emotion of that situation. You want to cheer during several games in the movie. Anyway, I don't want to ramble so there's my piece. I love this film. I gave it a 94 on my grading scale and it's one of the 5 Best of 1999. It's also vastly underrated and often (and inaccurately) labelled as merely a 2 hour and 40 minute music video. Wrong. It's simply the best.