Good, if you love Football.

Rating: 6/10 (13 April 2014)

The movie is very relaxed than what I would have imagined. There was not as much tension or drama as I thought, making the job of General Manager for a Sports team seem not so stressful. I was expecting the same tone as a movie about politics or the stock market, or something, but I felt while disagreements happened, everyone seem too laid back on one of the most important days of the NFL. Though a lot of the movie takes place a day before the Draft, when it finally gets up to that day, the excitement does not pick up.
The thing about a good sports movie is that you really don't have to know anything about sports to really like it. I know people who love Friday Night Lights and hate football. I guess the story of a General Manager is too specific, making it only interesting to die hard football fans. I got a small kick out of the movie. I'm not a huge sports fan, but I have a favorite football team and I like to see how they are doing and where they're going. So in that sense, watching Sonny Weaver, attempt to draft the best player to help rebuild an NFL sport team that's not doing well, was something that I could get behind, but watching him make that choice was very boring.
Sports movies centered on players seem to be more universal. Even movies center on coaches, like Remember the Titans, are more enjoyable, as eventually it becomes a movie about players. Then again I love Jerry McGuire which was focus more on a sports agent, which that movie made seem like a more interesting job than a General Manger.
This Ivan Reitman project should have been more of a hit, but it was just unexciting for me.