Too long and it could of been shorter!!!great cast although!!!

Rating: 3/10 (24 December 1999)

This movie along with the Green Mile(which was worth the 3 hours) ,The Talented Mr.Ripley and The Insider are now part of Hollywood's oscar fall season. The movie is about the problems a fictional football team faces both on and off the field. Any Given Sunday will do well with football fans, but for non-sports people the game sequences will get rather annoying. I would of eliminated some of these sequences are it feels like padding to the story. The director(Oliver Stone) should of clipped off the movie to a least 2 hours or 2 1/2 hours!!If it was shorter perhaps I would be nicer in my review!Also Stone appears too much as newscaster during the games(stone if you must appear in your movies do it for 5 minutes and get back to shorting )this elongated football movie!!!Normally I avoid the director's movie but because the trailers made the movie look like a decent sports flick. For anybody deciding to go see this movie , be prepared for a way too long movie and a sore butt after this very,very long movie!!It's decent for a matinee , but only see it if you will fall asleep as it's one of the worst movies in running time!!Other than the cast is great and so the story , it just should of been shorter!!!