Worth seeing for the football scenes...

Rating: 6/10 (23 December 1999)

I went into this movie expecting something that I had not seen before because Oliver Stone always delivers. Perhaps there have just been too many "sports movies." The football scenes alone are visually exciting and worth the price of a ticket. The story seems hellbent on hitting every sports cliche in the book, though. We have "The Legend" in the guise of both quarterback and coach, played by Dennis Quaid and Al Pacino. I have seen this performance from Pacino too many times...where is the quiet calm of Michael Corleone? We also have the Brash Rookie played by Jamie Foxx and we also have "The Tragedy" in the form of Lawrence Taylor - a player who needs to hang it up before he gets killed, but can't walk away. Overall, the movie was good - not great. I really wanted to like this movie more than I did. Perhaps it was a case of too much "star power." Let me know if this helped at all.