Oliver Stone's NFL.........

Rating: Null/10 (28 June 2002)

I'm not a big-time sports fan, but I do like football and I DO like Oliver Stone movies. To me, Mr. Stone always delivers some poignant message in his films (even in "U-Turn"), so I checked out what Ollie had to say/do about football (a subject I thought he'd never tackle- no pun intended)and I was STOKED! It did seem like a long movie, but his films are never really short anyway. I felt like I was watching a football game on a Sunday afternoon with the pre-game, half-time, and post-game specials along with it (and most appropriately, it WAS on a Sunday afternoon when I saw this). Stone always has so much going on in his movies that it can be chaotic at times. But such is life. It was multi-charactered and each one had something interesting about them: i.e., Dennis Quaid as the 'John Elway', Cameron Diaz as the cold and pragmatic team owner, James Woods as the slimy doctor, John C. McGinley as the soulless sports writer, Jamie Foxx as the hero/villain, and LL Cool J as his nemesis (still, one of my favorite characters, "J-Man"). I've got this on DVD and I think the deleted scenes just make this epic well, more epic. But don't see this movie if you A. do not like football B. have ADD C. if you think that this is a family film because it's about football...
I will never watch football the same again. Thanks, Oliver Stone!